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.
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Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan is out trying to find Hotel California, but Justin, Matt, and Jonathan are in the studio today, and they’ve got a lot of news and some great convo – from privacy in the digital age to Nova models (and a lot of employees) getting the ax, there’s a ton of stuff to cover this week, so let’s get started!
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Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including (surprise) astronomical AWS bills, Kimi K3 and what it means for Enterprise AI, and lots of security news! All that and so much more, so let’s get started!
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Welcome to episode 362 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are in the studio, and this week we’ve got slightly less AI, but much more data news – a trend Jonathan is sure will continue. Join us as we explore Kubernetes updates, the end of Amazon Mechanical Turk, and the last of the physical media for game consoles, plus more. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get s...
Welcome to episode 361 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! It’s a full house tonight – Justin, Ryan, Jonathan (and eventually) Matt are all in the studio this week to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including a greenlight for Mythos, an ACME product that *doesn’t* involve an anvil, and a couple of new models from Anthropic and OpenAI. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get in...
Welcome to episode 360 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Jonathan (for a bit, anyway) are in the studio this week bringing you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including a bunch of analytics, some upgrades courtesy of AI agents, and some news from Kafka. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!
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Welcome to episode 359 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including AI governance, FinOps’ final conference, and even an earnings story courtesy of Oracle. These and so much more – so let’s get started!
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- You Shall Not Pass Unless Your Network Poli...
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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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