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  • 329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance

    329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance
    Nov 12 2025
    Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including – you guessed it – more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We’ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
    • Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance – el -jb
    • Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven – mk
    • Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration – el
    • GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet – mk, el
    • Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs
    • Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google’s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase
    • RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey
    • Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes
    • I’m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions
    • OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon’s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated
    • The Root Cause They’ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA
    • Google’s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely
    • Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency
    Follow Up

    04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger – here’s what happened | ZDNET

    • Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.
    • The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others.
    • The root cause was an inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door that bypassed safety validations due to a software defect. Microsoft’s protection mechanisms failed to catch the erroneous deployment, allowing invalid configurations to propagate across the global fleet and cause HTTP timeouts, server errors, and elevated packet loss at network edges.
    • Recovery required rolling back to the last known good configuration and gradually rebalancing traffic across nodes to prevent overload conditions.
    • Some customers experienced lingering issues even after the official recovery time, with Microsoft temporarily blocking configuration changes to Azure Front Door while completing the restoration process.
    • The incident highlights concentration risk in cloud infrastructure, as this marks the second major cloud provider outage in October 2025.
    • Despite Azure revenue growing 40 percent in the latest quarterly report, Microsoft’s stock declined in after-hours trading as the company acknowledged capaci...
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  • 328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!

    328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!
    Nov 5 2025
    Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Journeys. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
    • CloudWatch’s New Feature: Because Nobody Likes Writing Incident Reports at 3 AM
    • DNS: Did Not Survive – The Great US-EAST-1 Outage of 2025
    • 404 DevOps Not Found: The AWS Automation Adventure mk
    • When Your DevOps Team Gets Replaced by AI and Then Everything Crashes
    • Database Migrations Get the ChatGPT Treatment: Just Vibe Your Schema Changes
    • AWS DevOps Team Gets the AI Treatment: 40% Fewer Humans, 100% More Questions
    • Breaking Up is Hard to Compute: Microsoft and OpenAI Redefine Their Relationship
    • AWS Goes Full Scope: Now Tracking Your Cloud’s Carbon from Cradle to Gate
    • Platform Engineering: When Your Golden Path Leads to a Dead End
    • DynamoDB’s DNS Disaster: How a Race Condition Raced Through AWS
    • AI Takes Over AWS DevOps Jobs, Servers Take Unscheduled Vacation
    • PostgreSQL Scaling Gets a 30-Second Makeover While AWS Takes a Coffee Break
    • The Domino Effect: When DynamoDB Drops, Everything Drops
    • RAG to Riches: Amazon Nova Learns to Cite Its Sources
    • AWS Finally Tells You When Your EC2 Instance Can’t Keep Up With Your Storage Ambitions
    • AWS Nova Gets Grounded: No More Hallucinating About Reality
    • One API to Rule Them All: OneLake’s Storage Compatibility Play
    • OpenAI gets to pay Alimony
    • Database schema deployments are totally a vibe
    • AWS will tell you how not green you are today, now in 3 scopes
    General News

    02:00 DDoS in September | Fastly

    • Fastly‘s September DDoS report reveals a notable 15.5 million requests per second attack that lasted over an hour, demonstrating how modern application-layer attacks can sustain extreme throughput with real HTTP requests rather than simple pings or amplification techniques.
    • Attack volume in September dropped to 61% of August levels, with data suggesting a correlation between school schedules and attack frequency: lower volumes coincide with school breaks, while higher volumes occur when schools are in session.
    • Media & Entertainment companies faced the highest median attack sizes, followed by Education and High Technology sectors, with 71% of September’s peak attack day attributed to a single enterprise media company.
    • The sustained 15 million RPS attack originated from a single cloud-provider ASN, using sophisticated daemons that mimicked browser behavior, making detection more challenging than typical DDoS patterns.
    • Organizations should evaluate whether their incident response runbooks can handle hour-long attacks at 15+ million RPS, as these sustained high-throughput attacks require automated mitigation rather than manual intervention.
    • Listen, we’re not inviting a DDoS attack, but also…we’ll just turn off the website, so there’s that.
    AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

    04:41 Google AI Studio updates: More control, less friction

    • Google AI Studio introduces “vibe coding” – a new AI-powered develo...
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  • 327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead

    327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead
    Oct 30 2025
    Welcome to episode 327 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to bring you all the latest news (and a few rants) in the worlds of Cloud and AI. I’m sure all our readers are aware of the AWS outage last week, as it was in all the news everywhere. But we’ve also got some new AI models (including Sora in case you’re low on really crappy videos the youths might like), plus EKS, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, and more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week Oracle and Azure Walk Into a Cloud Bar: Nobody Gets ETL’d When DNS Goes Down, So Does Your Monday: AWS Takes Half the Internet on a Coffee Break 404 Cloud Not Found: AWS Proves Even the Internet’s Phone Book Can Get Lost DNS: Definitely Not Staffed – How AWS Lost Its Way When It Lost Its People When Larry Met Satya: A Cloud Love Story Azure Finally Answers ‘Dude, Where’s My Data?’ with Storage Discovery Breaking: Microsoft Discovers AI Training Uses More Power Than a Small Country 404 Engineers Not Found – AWS Learns the Hard Way That People Are Its Most Critical Infrastructure Azure Storage Discovery: Finding Your Data Needles in the Cloud Haystack EKS Auto Mode: Because Even Your Clusters Deserve Cruise ControlAzure Gets Reel: Microsoft Adds Video Generation to AI Foundry The Great Token Heist: Vertex AI Steals 90% Off Your Gemini Bills Cache Me If You Can: Vertex AI’s Token-Saving Feature IaC Just Got a Manager – And It’s Not Your Boss From Musk to Microsoft: Grok 4 Makes the Great Cloud Migration No Harness.. You are not going to make IACM happen Microsoft Drafts a Solution to Container Creation Chaos PowerShell to the People: Azure Simplifies the Great Gateway Migration IP There Yet? Azure’s Scripts Keep Your Address While You Upgrade Follow Up 00:53 Glacier Deprecation Email Standalone Amazon Glacier service (vault-based with separate APIs) will stop accepting new customers as of December 15, 2025. S3 Glacier storage classes (Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, Deep Archive) are completely unaffected and continue normallyExisting Glacier customers can keep using it forever – no forced migration required. AWS is essentially consolidating around S3 as the unified storage platform, rather than maintaining two separate archival services.The standalone service will enter maintenance mode, meaning there will be no new features, but the service will remain operational.Migration to S3 Glacier is optional but recommended for better integration, lower costs, and more features. (Justin assures us it is actually slightly cheaper, so there’s that.) General News 02:24 Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure vs. GCP(00:00:59) - Amazon's Glacier Storage Deprecation, and More(00:02:33) - Big IP Software Breach: Worrisome(00:04:56) - Claude Code Gets a Web Version(00:11:45) - Infrastructure as Code Management: Annoying Sales Pitch(00:14:26) - AWS: US East 1 Outage Causes Chaos(00:23:17) - EC2 Capacity Manager(00:25:39) - EC2 Auto-Mode for Kubernetes 1.29(00:28:44) - Amazon. EC2: CPU Optimization for License Included Instances(00:30:55) - AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager: Improved Security Protection(00:35:14) - Amazon ECS CLI Agent Orchestrator(00:40:37) - Google Cloud: BigQuery Update, New GPUs(00:46:11) - Google Cloud: Management of Suences in Vertex & AI SDK(00:47:58) - Gemini Code Assist on GitHub Enterprise(00:52:09) - Vertex AI Context Caching(00:54:25) - Cloud Armor Announces New Features(00:57:05) - Microsoft Firewall: New Capacity Metric(00:59:55) - Microsoft's Azure API Management introduces carbon aware features(01:04:14) - Azure Storage Discovery(01:07:45) - Two new AI models available in Azure AI Foundry(01:08:54) - Azure: Application Gateway V1 to V2 Migration Scripts(01:12:43) - Oracle's AI Agent Studio Expands(01:14:05) - Week in the Cloud
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  • 326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)

    326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)
    Oct 23 2025
    Welcome to episode 326 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your guides to all things cloud and AI this week! We’ve got news from SonicWall (and it’s not great), a host of goodbyes to say over at AWS, Oracle (finally) joins the dark side, and even Slurm – and you don’t even need to ride on a creepy river to experience it. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week SonicWall’s Cloud Backup Service: From 5% to Oh No, That’s Everyone AWS Spring Cleaning: 19 Services Get the Boot The Great AWS Service Purge of 2025 Maintenance Mode: Where Good Services Go to Die GitHub Gets Assimilated: Resistance to Azure Migration is Futile Salesforce to Ransomware Gang: You Can’t Always Get What You Want Kansas City Gets the Need for Speed with 100G Direct Connect. Peter, what are you up too Gemini Takes the Wheel: Google’s AI Learns to Click and Type Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (Finally Has Cookies) Azure Goes Full Blackwell: 4,600 Reasons to Upgrade Your GPU Game DataStax to the Future: AWS Hires Database CEO for Security Role The Clone Wars: EBS Strikes Back with Instant Volume Copies Slurm Dunk: AWS Brings HPC Scheduling to Kubernetes The Great Cluster Convergence: When Slurm Met EKS Codex sent me a DM that I’ll ignore too on Slack General News 01:24 SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers SonicWall confirmed that all customers using their cloud backup service had firewall configuration files exposed in a breach, expanding from their initial estimate of 5% to 100% of cloud backup users. That’s a big difference…The exposed backup files contain AES-256-encrypted credentials and configuration data, which could include MFA seeds for TOTP authentication, potentially explaining recent Akira ransomware attacks that bypassed MFA.SonicWall requires affected customers to reset all credentials, including local user passwords, TOTP codes, VPN shared secrets, API keys, and authentication tokens across their entire infrastructure.This incident highlights a fundamental security risk of cloud-based configuration backups where sensitive credentials are stored centrally, making them attractive targets for attackers.The breach demonstrates why WebAuthn/passkeys offer superior security architecture since they don’t rely on shared secrets that can be stolen from backups or servers.Interested in checking out their detailed remediation guidance? Find that here. 02:36 Justin – “You know, providing your own encryption keys is also good; not allowing your SaaS vendor to have the encryption key is a positive thing to do. There’s all kinds of ways to protect your data in the cloud when you’re leveraging a SaaS service.” 04:43 Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort Salesforce is refusing to pay ransomware demands from criminals claiming to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records, stating they will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion dema... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Oracle Explains The Dark Side(00:01:31) - Cloud Security: Sonicwall Hacking(00:04:44) - Salesforce Rejects Ransomware Demand(00:07:04) - OpenAI's AI Agent Kit and More(00:10:10) - Google's Gemini 2.5 for UIs(00:12:20) - Amazon Is Moving 19 AWS Services to Maintenance Mode(00:16:30) - AWS Direct Connect now offers 100 Gigabytes dedicated connections with Mac(00:17:37) - AWS Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS Keys(00:18:56) - Amazon QuickSuite M8A New Instance Launch(00:22:31) - Amazon Hires Former Data Stack CEO as VP of Security Services and(00:26:43) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core(00:28:35) - AWS Transports AI Inference to Custom Chips(00:30:07) - Amazon EBS Volume Clones(00:31:45) - Amazon EKS Adds Slurm to Kubernetes(00:32:48) - GCP Introduces Gemini Enterprise as a Unified AI Platform(00:35:44) - Google's LLM Eval Kit for Prompt Engineering(00:37:57) - Google Cloud : NetApp Files for Enterprise Storage(00:40:43) - GitHub to Move All Its Software to Azure(00:45:17) - Microsoft Deploys First Production Cluster with Nvidia GB300 GPUs(00:48:31) - Oracle's Dark Mode in Oci
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  • 325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question

    325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question
    Oct 16 2025
    Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it’s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean – plus so much more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
    • AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership
    • Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal
    • From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics
    • PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries
    • Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language
    • CLI and Let AI: Google’s Natural Language Database Assistant
    • Satya’s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy
    • Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It’s Personal (and Commercial)
    • Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine
    • Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use
    • OpenAI Puts the “You” in YouTube (AI Edition)
    • Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show
    • Grok and Roll: Microsoft’s New AI Model Rocks Azure
    • To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question
    • Grok Around the Clock: Azure’s 24/7 Reasoning Machine
    • Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines
    • DigitalOcean’s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up
    • NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage)
    • The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right
    • NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean’s Gateway to Savings
    • BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind)
    • The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed
    • Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying
    • Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks
    • EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature
    • MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol?
    AI is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

    00:45 OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound – Ars Technica

    • OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google’s Veo 3 and Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 capabilities.
    • This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”
    • The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through “cameos,” suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale.
    • Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.
    • The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics routines while maintaining proper physics.
    • The addition of “sophisticated background soundscapes, speech, and sound effects” expands potential enterprise use cases for automated video production, training materials, and marketing content generation without separate audio post-processing.
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  • 323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine

    323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine
    Oct 9 2025
    Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow – and Matt obviously falling asleep on the job. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft’s Close Call with Cloud CatastropheBedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba’s Models Join the AWS PartyDeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in BedrockGPUs of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do)Kubernetes Without the KubernightmaresFirestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language EditionDo What I Meant, Not What I PromptedAtlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer ExperienceEntra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost WasOracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked ForWisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft’s Dairy State Datacenter Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe)PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won’t Share Its TEEsMicrosoft’s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PCAzure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14. This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment.The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs.This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention.The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google’s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems.The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale.Interested in registering? You can do that here. Cloud Tools 03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B Atlassian is acquiring DX, a developer productivity ana... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Podcast: Databricks 1(00:01:11) - Google and Kegel Launch Five Day Training Course on AI Agents(00:03:34) - Atlasian Buys DX: Will It Hurt Their Business?(00:07:03) - Amazon Web Services: New Models for DeepSeek and DeepSe(00:08:42) - Amazon RDS: MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in Database Preview(00:14:12) - QDeveloper CLI Adds Remote MCPs(00:15:56) - Amazon Nova Act Extension(00:18:08) - Google Cloud: Security Command Center Insights for Kubernetes(00:20:42) - Google's Firestore: MCP for AI Systems(00:22:59) - AI Adoption Among Software Developers Hits 90%, Says Google(00:24:00) - AI: Return on Investment?(00:31:05) - Microsoft's Entra ID Vulnerabilities(00:36:37) - Microsoft Unveils $100 Million AI Data Center(00:40:31) - Azure SQL Server 2020: Managed Instance(00:43:20) - AKS Automatic for Kubernetes + Azure Cloud(00:45:49) - Databricks 1.4(00:47:11) - Microsoft's HPC Infrastructure: HBV5 Series VMs(00:52:08) - NET (for Mobile, Desktop, and More)(00:53:12) - Azure Monitor Kubernetes: Higher throughput & more(00:54:56) - Microsoft SQL: Integrations with Grafana(01:01:59) - Microsoft Expands Fabric with New Features and Collaboration(01:05:21) - Azure Application Gateway: zero downtime upgrade capability(01:07:28) - Oracle's AI Strategy: Setting the Standard(01:10:42) - Week in Cloud: Exploring the Cloud(01:11:26) - The Need for Prompt Engineering in Cloud Software(01:18:28) - Image Generation with Google GPT5(01:22:04) - A Week in the Life
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  • 324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of

    324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of
    Oct 9 2025
    Welcome to episode 324 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts, bringing you all the latest news and announcements in Cloud and AI. This week we have some exec changes over at Oracle, a LOT of announcements about Sonnet 4.5, and even some marketplace updates over at Azure! Let’s get started. Titles we almost went with this week Oracle’s Executive Shuffle: Promoting from Within While Chasing from BehindCopilot Takes the Wheel on Your Legacy Code HighwayQueue Up for GPUs: Google’s Take-a-Number Approach to AI ComputingLicense to Bill: Google’s 400% Markup GrievanceAutopilot Engages: GKE Goes Full Self-Driving ModeSQL Server Finally Gets a Lake House Instead of a Server RoomMicrosoft Gives Office Apps Their Own AI InternsClaude and Present Danger: The AI That Codes for 30 Hours StraightThe Claude Father Part 4.5: An Offer Your Code Can’t RefuseCUD You Believe It? Google Makes Discounts Actually FlexibleECS Goes Full IPv6: No IPv4s GivenBreaking News: AWS Finally Lets You Hit the Emergency Stop ButtonOne Marketplace to Rule Them AllBigQuery Gets a Crystal Ball and a Chatty FriendAzure’s September to Remember: When Certificates and Allocators AttackShall I Compare Thee to a Sonnet? 4.5 Ways Anthropic Just Leveled UpAWS provides a big red button Follow Up 01:26 The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission one year ago about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices, specifically the 400% price markup Microsoft imposes on customers who move Windows Server workloads to non-Azure clouds.The UK Competition and Markets Authority found that restrictive licensing costs UK cloud customers £500 million annually due to lack of competition, while US government agencies overspend by $750 million yearly because of Microsoft’s licensing tactics.Microsoft recently disclosed that forcing software customers to use Azure is one of three pillars driving its growth and is implementing new licensing changes preventing managed service providers from hosting certain workloads on Azure competitors.Multiple regulators globally including South Africa and the US FTC are now investigating Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, with the CMA finding that Azure has gained customers at 2-3x the rate of competitors since implementing restrictive terms.A European Centre for International Political Economy study suggests ending restrictive licensing could unlock €1.2 trillion in additional EU GDP by 2030 and generate €450 billion annually in fiscal savings and productivity gains. 03:32 Jonathan – “I’d feel happier about these complaints Google were making if they actually reciprocated the deals they make for their customers in the... Chapters (00:00:00) - GCP Alumni(00:01:35) - Microsoft's Cloud Licensing Practices(00:05:22) - Microsoft introduces Office Agent in Copilot Chat(00:08:13) - Claude Sonet 4.5 Launches(00:09:33) - Claude 4.5 New Feature Announcement(00:15:12) - Bill Gates on ChatGPT and Bots(00:16:10) - Snowflake, Cloud Sonnet 4.5, and SQL Server(00:17:39) - Amazon EC2, ECS now supporting IPv6 Only workloads(00:20:23) - Amazon Machine Image Governance (New Parameter)(00:25:42) - Easy to Auto-Scalping (New Feature)(00:29:23) - Amazon EC2: Managed Serverless Instances(00:33:28) - AWS Outposts: Third-Party Storage Integration(00:36:45) - Google's Flex Start VMS for AI & GKE Autop(00:41:48) - Google Launches Cloud SQL, BigQuery Extensions(00:45:11) - BigQuery and Google Analytics: AI Data Analysis & Forecast(00:47:02) - Microsoft Azure Migrate and Modernize: Cloud Code vs. Microsoft(00:53:22) - Microsoft's Azure Marketplace Unifying with AppSource(00:56:06) - Azure Compute Gallery: Soft Delete(00:57:49) - Microsoft Azure Outages: Lessons Learned(01:03:32) - Week in Cloud: A Week of Consistency
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  • 322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…

    322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
    Sep 24 2025
    Welcome to episode 322 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We have BIG NEWS – Jonathan is back! He’s joined in the studio by Justin and Ryan to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including ongoing drama in the Microsoft/OpenAI drama, saying goodbye to data transfer fees (in the EU), M4 Power, and more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week EU Later, Egress Fees: Google’s Brexit from Data Transfer ChargesThe Keys to the Cosmos: Azure Unlocks Customer ControlBreaking Up is Hard to Do: Google Splits LLM Inference for Better PerformanceOpenAI and Microsoft: From Exclusive to It’s Complicated Google’s New Model Has Trust Issues (And That’s a Good Thing)Mac to the Future: AWS Brings M4 Power to the CloudOracle’s Cloud Nine: Stock Soars on Half-Trillion Dollar DreamsChatGPT: From Chat Bot to Hat Bot (Everyone’s Wearing Different Professional Hats)Five Billion Reasons to Love British AINVMe Gonna Give You Up: AWS Delivers the Storage Metrics You’ve Been MissingTea and AI: OpenAI Crosses the PondThe Norway Bug Strikes Back: A New YAML Hope A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 01:33 Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement – GeekWire Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that will restructure their partnership, with OpenAI’s nonprofit entity receiving an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new public benefit corporation where Microsoft will play a major role.The deal addresses the AGI clause that previously allowed OpenAI to unilaterally dissolve the partnership upon achieving artificial general intelligence, which had been a significant risk for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar investment.Both companies are diversifying their partnerships – Microsoft is now using Anthropic’s technology for some Office 365 AI features, while OpenAI has signed a $300 billion computing contract with Oracle over five years.Microsoft’s exclusivity on OpenAI cloud workloads has been replaced with a right of first refusal, enabling OpenAI to participate in the $500 billion Stargate AI project with Oracle and other partners.The restructuring allows OpenAI to raise capital for its mission while ensuring the nonprofit’s resources grow proportionally, with plans to use funds for community impact, including a recently launched $50 million grant program. ALSO: OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms – Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:34) - Microsoft and OpenAI Restructuring(00:06:55) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.0 Update(00:12:33) - ChatGPT: How People Are Using the Technology(00:16:33) - OpenAI's Stargate UK Announcement(00:18:24) - LocalStack for Mac: New Instances Launch(00:25:06) - Amazon EC2: More NVME Performance Metrics with EFA(00:26:43) - AWS Launches R8GN(00:28:20) - AWS CDK Preview: Refactoring with Cloudformation(00:29:59) - Amazon CloudTrail: AI Security Analysis with a McP Server(00:33:44) - Amazon Web Services: Cloud Commitment Insurance(00:35:37) - Google Cloud Launches Multi-Cloud Data Transfer Essentials(00:40:13) - Kubernetes 1.34(00:44:17) - Google Cloud introduces new recipe for disaggregated AI Inferance(00:46:47) - Google's Data Science Agent Now Generates Code for BigQuery,(00:49:09) - Google Cloud Launches DNS Armor to Detect Cyberthreats(00:52:02) - Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)(00:54:32) - Google Cloud: Alloy DB on C4(00:56:42) - Google Cloud Trace now supports Open telemetry protocol (OTEL)(01:00:19) - Google's New 'Practical Guide to Data Science'(01:02:26) - Vault Gemma: The First Large Language Model with Privacy(01:06:05) - Customer Managed Keys(01:12:39) - Azure Logic Apps: Model Context Protocol Server (MCP)(01:14:46) - Microsoft's Kubernetes Storage v2(01:16:46) - Microsoft Fabric and AI Foundry: New Features, New Features(01:18:50) - Oracle Stock Jumping On Cloud Revenue Forecast(01:22:40) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017
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