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The Cloud Pod is your one-stop-shop for all things Public, Hybrid, Multi-cloud, and private cloud. Cloud providers continue to accelerate with new features, capabilities, and changes to their APIs. Let Justin, Jonathan, Ryan and Peter help navigate you through this changing cloud landscape via our weekly podcast.© 2026 The Cloud Pod Economía
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  • 341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out

    341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out
    Feb 13 2026

    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’s get into it!

    Titles we almost went with this week
    • Finally, a Chatbot That Actually Knows Where Your Data Lives **Anthropic
    • Microsoft Adds Security Analyzer to MSSQL Extension: Because Bobby Tables Jokes Are Only Funny Until They Happen to You
    • From Sequential Sadness to Parallel Paradise: GKE Node Pools Get Concurrent
    • From Vibe Coding to Production: AWS MCP Server Gets SOPs
    • One Prompt to Deploy Them All: AWS MCP Server Automates Infrastructure
    • AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out
    • Mutual TLS: Because CloudFront and Your Origin Need Couples Therapy
    • Claude Team Plan: Now With More Seats and Less Bills
    • From Snowflake to Snowball: Rolling Data and Dev Into One Platform
    • From Notepad++ to Notepad Pwned: A Six-Month Hosting Horror Story
    • EventBridge Payload Capacity Gets a 4x Upgrade: No More Event Splitting Headaches
    • CloudFront Finally Learns to Check ID Before Knocking on Origin’s Door
    General News

    01:30 SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it – Ars Technica

    • SpaceX has acquired xAI to create a vertically integrated AI and space infrastructure company, with plans to deploy up to 1 million satellites as orbital data centers.
    • This represents a significant bet that space-based compute infrastructure can be cost-competitive with traditional ground-based data centers for AI workloads.
    • The merger combines SpaceX’s launch capabilities and satellite manufacturing expertise with xAI’s Grok chatbot and X social platform.
    • The strategy assumes AI demand will continue to grow and that compute capacity, rather than other factors, is the primary bottleneck to AI adoption.
    • The orbital data center concept raises questions about latency, power requirements, thermal management, and maintenance compared to terrestrial facilities.
    • Traditional cloud providers have invested heavily in ground-based infrastructure optimized for these factors.
    • This consolidation of Musk’s companies creates potential conflicts between SpaceX’s established government and commercial contracts and xAI’s more controversial products.
    • The integration of a proven aerospace company with a newer AI venture introduces execution risk to SpaceX’s core business.
    • The plan depends on several unproven assumptions, including sustained AI market growth, viable economics for space-based computing, and the ability to manufacture and launch satellites at unprecedented scale.
    • Cloud providers and enterprises will need to evaluate whether orbital compute offers advantages over existing multi-region terrestrial deployments.

    03:22 Ryan – “I feel like this is a shell game con; taxes are over here – no, now they’re over here!”

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  • 340: Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables

    340: Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables
    Feb 7 2026
    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 Overdrive GitHub Copilot Learns Database Schema: Finally an AI That Understands Your Joins SSMS Gets a Copilot: Your T-SQL Now Writes Itself While You Grab Coffee Too Many Cooks in the Cloud Kitchen: How 32 GPUs Outcooked the Big Tech Industrial Kitchens Uncle Sam Gets a Gemini Twin: Google’s AI Goes Federal Route 53 Gets Domain of Its Own: .ai Joins the Party Thai One On: Google Cloud Plants Its Flag in Bangkok NAT So Fast: Azure’s Gateway Gets a V2 Glow-Up Beware Azure’s SQL Assistant doesn’t smoke your joints. AI Is Going Great, Or How ML Makes Money 30:10 Announcing BlackIce: A Containerized Red Teaming Toolkit for AI Security Testing | Databricks Blog Databricks released BlackIce, an open-source containerized toolkit that bundles 14 AI security testing tools into a single Docker image available on Docker Hub as databricksruntime/blackice:17.3-LTS. The toolkit addresses common red teaming challenges, including conflicting dependencies, complex setup requirements, and the fragmented landscape of AI security tools, by providing a unified command-line interface similar to how Kali Linux works for traditional penetration testing.The toolkit includes tools covering three main categories: Responsible AI, Security testing, and classical adversarial ML, with capabilities mapped to MITRE ATLAS and the Databricks AI Security Framework. Tools are organized as either static (simple CLI-based with minimal programming needed) or dynamic (Python-based with customization options), with static tools isolated in separate virtual environments and dynamic tools in a global environment with managed dependencies.BlackIce integrates directly with Databricks Model Serving endpoints through custom patches applied to several tools, allowing security teams to test for vulnerabilities like prompt injections, data leakage, hallucination detection, jailbreak attacks, and supply chain security issues. Users can deploy it via Databricks Container Services by specifying the Docker image URL when creating compute clusters.The release includes a demo notebook showing how to orchestrate multiple security tools in a single environment, with all build artifacts, tool documentation, and examples available in the GitHub repository. The CAMLIS Red Paper provides additional technical details on tool selection criteria and the Docker image architecture. 04:30 Ryan – “It’s very difficult to feel confident in your AI security practice or patterns. I feel like it’s just bleeding edge, and I’m learning so much all the time. And so I spend a lot of time reading papers and talking to others and seeing what they’re doing and meeting with vendors trying to figure out strategy, and it just feels like I’m drinking from a fire hose, and it’s really difficult to feel confident. So I like tools like t... Chapters (00:00:07) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 340(00:01:16) - Hello, How to Subscribe to our Podcast(00:03:20) - Black Ice: A Single Toolkit for AI Security(00:13:21) - OpenAI Launches Prism: a LaTeX workspace for scientific writing(00:16:03) - Amazon EC2: New Graviton 4 Instances, and More(00:21:54) - Amazon Workspaces: Advanced Printer Redirection(00:25:50) - AWS Network Firewall Adds URL Category Based Filtering(00:28:32) - The CEO's Executive Dinner(00:29:21) - Gemini CLI Learning Course Launch(00:32:43) - Google Cloud opens new Bangkok Region Asia Southeast 3(00:36:08) - Apache Airflow 3.1 on Cloud Composer(00:38:36) - Google's Gemini for Government Launches(00:43:32) - BigQuery: Integrating AI into SQL queries(00:45:46) - SQL Server Management Studio 2.22.1 New Features & Changes(00:53:08) - Azure NAT Gateway: Standard V2 GAUNCH(00:55:31) - Microsoft Announces Unified Socks & DORA Compliance Solutions in(01:03:01) - IOM Deny Policies(01:04:59) - Google's Gemini CLI for Outages & Compliance(01:07:58) - Google's MCP for Docs(01:10:49) - Super Bowl LII
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  • 339: Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can't Keep Its Mouth Shut

    339: Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can't Keep Its Mouth Shut
    Jan 29 2026
    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! Titles we almost went with this week US-EAST-1: Still the Least Reliable Friend You Keep Inviting to Parties **OpenAI0⃣ From Zero to Inference: BigQuery Makes Open Models a Two-SQL Problem AWS Goes Full Brandenburg Gate: Sovereign Cloud Opens for Business Seven Ate Nine: AWS Skips G7 and Goes Straight to G7e Instances From Crawling to Calling: Cloudflare Buys Human Native to Fix AI’s Data Problem Finally, an AI That Actually Listens to Your War Room Panic Tag, You’re Governed: AWS Automation Takes the Wheel Cloudflare Reaches for the Stars: Astro Framework Acquisition Lands Gemini Gets Personal: Google AI Finally Reads Your Email (With Permission) AWS Strikes Ore: Amazon Cuts Out the Middleman in Copper Supply Chain When Your Region Goes Down More Often Than Your Kubernetes Cluster ChatGPT Go: OpenAI’s New Middle Child Gets $8 Allowance Cloudflare’s Space-Age Acquisition: Astro Gets Jetsons-Level Upgrade Rosie the Robot Fired: Cloudflare Brings Astro Framework Into the Family It took 5 years, and now we have ads in our AI. AI now with Ads EU says hands off my data General News 00:50 Heather’s data is not unreliable Maybe it’s unreliable.I blame Matt for having screwed up his outtro (as he did today), in which case I no longer recognize his participation. 01:11 Astro is joining Cloudflare Cloudflare acquires The Astro Technology Company, bringing the popular open-source web framework in-house while maintaining its MIT license and multi-cloud deployment capabilities. Major platforms like Webflow Cloud, Wix Vibe, and Stainless already use Astro on Cloudflare infrastructure to power customer websites.Astro 6 introduces a redesigned development server built on Vite Environments API that runs code locally using the same runtime as production deployment. When using the Cloudflare Vite plugin, developers can test against workerd runtime with access to Durable Objects, D1, KV, and other Cloudflare services during local development.The framework focuses on content-driven websites through its Islands Architecture, which renders most pages as static HTML while allowing selective client-side interactivity using any UI framework. This approach addresses the complexity that made building performant websites difficult before 2021, providing a simpler foundation for both human developers and AI coding agents.Astro 6 adds stable Live Content Collections for real-time data... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:02:52) - Vite 6 and Cloudflare: Everything You Need to Know(00:04:53) - Cloudflare to Acquire Human Data, Boost AI Data(00:06:34) - Anthropic Launches a Lab for AI Product Development(00:10:44) - Thinking Machine's Co-Founders Return to OpenAI(00:13:29) - OpenAI to Add 750 Megawatts of Inference Capacity to Chat(00:16:35) - Chat: More Adverts Coming to AI(00:18:41) - 1Password for AI-Powered Development(00:25:21) - EC2 X8i and G7E: The Bigger(00:28:02) - Amazon Launches the AWS European Sovereign Cloud(00:32:07) - Amazon to Become First Customer of Rio Tinto's Bio-Le(00:34:34) - Curo CLI Update to 1.24(00:37:21) - BigQuery adds SQL Native Inference for Open Models(00:39:28) - Google Translate Gemma, a New Translation Model(00:43:04) - Microsoft's AI Marketplace: Central Hub for AI Adoption(00:47:10) - It's All In The Cloud For Azure...(00:49:16) - Amazon's Outages for the Year 2025(00:51:30) - US East 1 vs. Oregon: Is it Worse?
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