320: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human

Welcome to episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are coming to you from Justin’s echo chamber and bringing all the latest in AI and Cloud news, including updates to Google’s Anti-trust case, AWS Cost MCP, new regions, updates to EKS, Veo, and Claude, and more! Let’s get into it. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Breaking Bad Bottlenecks: AWS  Cooks Up Faster Container Pulls
• The Bucket List: Finding Your Lost Storage Dollars
• State of Denial: Terraform Finally Stops Saving Your Passwords
• Three Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and Launch
• Ground Control to Major Cloud: Microsoft Launches Planetary Computer Pro
• Veo Vidi Vici: Google Conquers Video Editing
• Red Alert: AWS Makes Production Accounts Actually Look Dangerous
• Amazon EKS Discovers the F5 Key 
• Chaos Theory Meets ChatGPT: When Your Reliability Data Gets an AI Therapist
• Breaking Bad (Services): How AI Helps You Find What’s Already   Broken
• Breaking Up is Hard to Cloud: Gemini Moves Back In
• Intel Inside Your Secrets: TDX Takes Over Google Cloud
• Lord of the Regions: The Return of the Kiwi 
• All Blacks and All Stacks: AWS Goes Full Kiwi
• Azure Forecast: 100% Chance of Budget Alert Storms
• Google Keeps Its Cloud Together: A $2.5T Near Miss
• Shell We Dance? AWS Makes CLI Scripting Less Painful
• AWS Finally Admits Nobody Remembers All Those CLI Commands
• Cache Me If You Claude
• Your AWS Console gets its Colors, just don’t choose red shirts
• Amazon Q walks into a bar, Tells MCP to order it a beer.. The Bartender sighs and mutters “at least chatgpt just hallucinates its beer”
• Ryan’s shitty scripts now as a AWS CLI Library

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General News

00:57 Google Dodges A 2.5t Breakup

• We have breaking news – and it’s good news for Google. 
• Google successfully avoided a potential $2.5 trillion breakup following antitrust proceedings, maintaining its current corporate structure despite regulatory pressure.
• The decision represents a significant outcome for Big Tech antitrust cases, potentially setting a precedent for how regulators approach market dominance issues in the cloud and technology sectors.
• Cloud customers and partners can expect business continuity with Google Cloud Platform services, avoiding potential disruptions that could have resulted from a corporate restructuring.
• The ruling may influence how other major cloud providers structure their businesses and approach regulatory compliance, particularly around bundling services and market competition.
• Enterprise customers relying on Google’s integrated ecosystem of cloud, advertising, and productivity tools can continue their current architectures without concerns about service separation.
• You just KNOW Microsoft is super mad about this. 

AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 

02:16 Introducing GPT-Realtime

• OpenAI‘s

Chapters

• (00:00:07) - Cloud Pod: Azure vs GCP
• (00:01:01) - Google Stops Exploring a Breakup
• (00:03:49) - Terraform Cloud Provider 7.0 in general availability
• (00:06:13) - How to Query Gremlin's LLM with Chaos Engineering Data
• (00:08:32) - Amazon EKS: Parallel Polls for AI & Windows
• (00:15:52) - Amazon.com: Terraform Deployment for SFTP Connectors
• (00:19:11) - Amazon Q Developer Adds Central Admin Control for MCP Servers
• (00:21:04) - AWS i8ge and M8i Flex Instances
• (00:24:55) - Amazon M7i Flex Instances: Best Cloud Instances
• (00:27:53) - Wales: New AWS Region Launches in New Zealand
• (00:32:56) - Google Cloud: New Features and No Cost Option for Videos
• (00:37:11) - GKE Container Optimized Compute
• (00:38:42) - Intel TDX for Confidential Computing with Google
• (00:40:17) - GCP EventArc Advanced is Now General