Welcome to episode 261 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to cover, including a slew of Azure and Oracle stories! This week the guys cover some new cost management strategies from FinOps, some Kubernetes updates, MS Build, and even fancy schmancy CoPilot PCs!

• Azure woke up and announced things
• AWS stops taking your IPv4 Money
• Well now everything has copilot

00:57 AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, set to launch by the end of 2025

• Amazon is sharing more details about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud roadmap so that customers and partners can start planning.
• The first AWS European Sovereign Cloud is planning to launch its first AWS Region in the state of Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025.
• Available to all AWS customers, this effort is backed by a 7.8B Euro investment in infrastructure, jobs and skills development.
• Customers will get the full power of the AWS architecture, expansive service portfolio and API’s that customers use today.
• Customers can start building applications in any existing Region and simply move them to AWS European Sovereign Cloud when the first region launches in 2025.
• And how exactly will they do that, you might be wondering? If you mean there will be an easy button that’s awesome… do it everywhere else.
• if you mean update Terraform and redeployed Screw you, Amazon.

03:23 Ryan – “Yeah. It just seems so anti what they’re trying to set up with the sovereign region to begin with, right? Like, I guess copying data is fine in, but not out. Like it’s sort of, it’s like GovCloud, right? It’s completely separate. So strange.”

05:06 Application Load Balancer launches IPv6-only support for Internet clients

• ALB’s now allow you to provision load balancers without IPV4 for clients that can connect using just IPv6. Woot.

05:25 Ryan – “So the trick is for internal, the reason why we’re starting to see this more and more is that because you can address these huge spaces in IPv6, they’re not doing the equivalent of RFC 1918 address space. So that’s why these things become super important because they’ll configure an internal sort of networking path that’s only IPv6, but then you can’t use like a managed load balancer or something like that because there’s no IP space.”

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Welcome to episode 260 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan are talking about changes in leadership over at Amazon, GPT-4.o and its image generating capabilities, and the new voice of Skynet, Amazon Polly! It’s an action packed episode – and make sure to stay tuned for this week’s after show.

• Who eats pumpkin pie in May
• Bytes and Goodbyes: AWS CEO Logs Off
• AWS lets you know that you are burning money sooner than before
• High-Ho, High-Ho, It’s GPT-4-Ohhh
• The CloudPod pans for nuggets in the AI Gold rush

00:40 Terraform Enterprise adds Podman support and workflow enhancements

• The latest version of Terraform Enterprise now supports Podman with RHEL 8 and above.
• Originally, it only supported Docker Engine and Cloud Managed K8 services.
• With the upcoming EOL of RHEL 7 in June 2024, customers faced a lack of an end-to-end supported option for running a terraform enterprise on RHEL.
• Now, with support from Podman, this is rectified.

01:18 Ryan – “This is for the small amount of customers running the enterprise either on -prem or in their cloud environment. It’s a pretty good option. Makes sense.”

01:42 Justin – “You know, the thing I was most interested in at this actually is that Red Hat Linux 7 is now end of life, which this is my first time in my entire 20 some odd career that I’ve never had to support Red Hat Linux in production because we use Ubuntu for some weird reason, which I actually appreciate because I always like Ubuntu best for my home projects, but I didn’t actually know Red Hat 7 was going away.”

03:58 Hello GPT-4o

• Open AI has launched their GPT-4o (o for Omni) model which can reason across audio, vision and text in real time.
• The new model can accept input combinations of text, audio and image and generates any combination as output. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, similar to human response time in conversation.
• It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and OCDE, with significant improvements on text in non-english languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API.
• GPT-4o is especially better at vision and audio.
• Previously you could interact with ChatGPT using voice mode, but the latency was 2.8 seconds for

Welcome to episode 259 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan (yes, all 4!) are covering A LOT of information – you’re going to want to sit down for this one. This week’s agenda includes unnecessary Magic Quadrants, SecOps, Dataflux updates, CNAME chain struggles, and an intro into Phi-3 – plus so much more!

• GKE Config Sync or the Auto Outage for K8 Feature
• If only all my disasters could be managed
• The Cloud Pod builds a Rag Doll
• Understanding Dataflux has given me reflux
• Oracle continuing the trend of adding AI to everything even databases
• A new way to burn your money on the cloud which isn’t even your fault
• Google Gets a Magic Quadrant Participation Trophy
• We’re All Winners to Magic Quadrant
• Don’t be a giant DNAME

00:33 Dropbox dropped the ball on security, hemorrhaging customer and third-party info

• Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers’ personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities.
• The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing, impacted Dropbox Sign, a service that supports e-signatures similar to Docusign.
• The threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings.
• For a subset of users, the threat actor accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens and multi-factor authentication.
• To make things *extra* worse – if you never had an account but received a signed document your email and name has also been exposed. Good times.
• Want to read the official announcement? You can find it here.

03:06 Jonathan- “It’s unfortunate that it was compromised. It was their acquisition, wasn’t it – ‘HelloSign’ that actually had the defect, not their main product at least.”

05:44 VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow

• Last week at recording time Matt mentioned the VMWare Cloud on AWS rumors on twitter that Broadcom was terminating.
• Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom wrote a blog post letting you know that VMWare Cloud on AWS is Here today, and here tomorrow.
• He says the reports have been false, and contends that the offering would be going away forcing unnecessary concern for their loyal customers who have used the service for years. He quotes Winston Churchill (which is an interesting choice) and then goes on to report the service is alive, available and continues to support costumer’s strategic business initiatives.