The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
The Cloud Pod delivers weekly cloud computing and AI news for engineers, architects, and technology leaders. Join Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn as they break down the latest from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — covering new services, platform updates, FinOps strategies, and the AI innovations reshaping the industry. Stay ahead of the cloud landscape with one of the longest-running cloud computing podcasts available.
Episodes
Welcome to episode 358 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy!
Justin, Matt, and Ryan (who, rumour has it, was working on an Eagles music podcast) are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news (and begging for a AI spend limit increase), including anthropic wanting everyone – except themselves – to slow down AI development, GitHub’s insane number of commits, and e...
Welcome to episode 357 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! Is AI costing more than the people it replaced? Are CEO’s suffering from AI psychosis? Is Opus 4.8 better than 4.7? We answer all of these questions and more this week – so let’s get started!
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Welcome to episode 356 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including the Pope coming out against AI, AWS introducing a new local zone, and GitHub having yet another crappy week. There’s a lot of news, so let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
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Welcome to episode 354 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! This week was sort of a tire fire for the cloud, with US-East-1 losing power, TanStack Supply chain being hit with an impressively creative attack, and Linux getting hit with a second vulnerability in as many weeks. But it’s not all bad news – Microsoft finally figured out we don’t want (or need) Copilot in EVERYTHING, and Anthropic intro...
Welcome to episode 353 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest news, including earnings from the big 3, a new agreement between the DOW and Google (Don’t be Evil), AI Agents, and more OpenClaw news (that your security team may not appreciate). Plus, DataCenters may not be great for the environment. Who knew?
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Welcome to episode 352 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are safely back from Vegas (Ryan and Justin, anyway), and they have all the news and announcements from Google Next. Plus, we have Ryan’s take on Phish, news from Cloudflare, and a shoe company making a pivot. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
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Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news about Mythos, Amazon finally becoming a utility, and...
Welcome to episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are this week’s hosts, and they’ve scoured the clouds for all the latest news and announcements, including that Mythos drop. Is it the AI apocalypse that everyone is claiming? We’ve also got news from DigitalOcean, an email from Space, Claude and even some Guardrails. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s...
Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this and more – so let’s get started!
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Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
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Welcome to episode 347 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are in the studio recording today, and thankfully, Jonathan hasn’t replaced us all with Skynet – yet. This week, we’re discussing how old our tools (and us) are (hint: it’s really old), whether or not the SaasApocalypse is upon us, and whether or not the business or AI is responsible for the latest round ...
Welcome to episode 346 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold on to your butts, because Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio today, and they’re ready to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including the usual: Meta buying social networks, Amazon responding to outages, and OpenAI giving up another version of GPT. Let’s get into it!
Titles we almost went with this week
Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what’s going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I hope you have a good Disaster Recovery plan), and Transit Gateway pricing changes that are enough to ma...
Welcome to episode 344 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is out of the office at a World of Warcraft Tournament (not really), and Ryan is pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a roadie for The Eagles (maybe?), so it’s Jonathan and Matt holding down the fort this week, and they’ve got a ton of cloud news for you! From security to AI assistants, we’ve got all the news you need. Let&rsqu...
Welcome to episode 343 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week bringing you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including some of the smaller clouds like Cloudflare and Crusoe Cloud, as well as announcements from the big guys like Google’s Gemini DeepThink, Anthropic’s big pay day, and Microsoft’s Notepad problem. We’ve got all this plus Matt...
Welcome to episode 342 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news this week. How do you feel about ads? How do you feel about ads while using AI? We’ve got options! We’ve got a round-up of tech Super Bowl ads, AI ads, Earnings reports (who frankly need the ad revenue), and a plethora of Opus 4.6 announcements, plu...
Welcome to episode 341 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt & Ryan are picking up Justin’s slack this week while he’s traveling for work, but don’t worry, because they have plenty of news! We’re talking about those mass layoffs over at AWS, a major security breach over at Notepad++, and some new slight of hand over at Elon’s companies. There’s a lot to cover, so let&rsq...
Welcome to episode 340 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house (eventually) with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt all on board for today’s episode. We’ve got a lot of announcements, from Gemini for Gov (no more CamoGPT!) to Route 52 and Claude. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
- Claude’s Pricing Tiers: Free, Pro, and Maximum Ove...
Welcome to episode 339 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI announcements, including more personnel shifts (and it doesn’t seem like it was very friendly), a new way to get much needed copper, and Azure marketplace advertising 4,000 different models. What’s the real story? Let’s get into it and find out!
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