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The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

De : Justin Brodley Jonathan Baker Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News
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 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.© 2026 The Cloud Pod Economie
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    • 342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account

      342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account
      Feb 18 2026
      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, plus more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week ChatGPT Goes Full Mad Men: Your AI Assistant Now Comes With Commercial Breaks Heroku’s New Feature: No New Features AWS Gives EC2 Instances a Storage Growth Spurt: 22.8TB of Local NVMe Now Available Identity Crisis Averted: IAM Identity Center Learns to Replicate Itself JSON Schema Enforcement: Because Your LLM Needs Structure in Its Life From Zero to Admin in 480 Seconds: A Serbian Speedrun Story From Proof of Concept to Proof of Claw: DigitalOcean Tames AI Agent Infrastructure Azure’s Growth Hits the Clouds: Microsoft’s 39% Increase Still Not Enough for Wall Street One Lake to Rule Them All: Microsoft and Snowflake Finally Stop Fighting Over Your Data Free Lunch Officially Over: ChatGPT Learns That Servers Cost Money Claude Won’t Sell You Anything (Except Maybe Peace of Mind) IAM Identity Center Goes Multi-Regional: Because One Region to Rule Them All Wasn’t Enough Databricks Takes the Base Out of Database with Lakebase GA I’m a Chrome Tab hoarder General News 01:30 Superbowl Ads of Note OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCN9iCXNJqQMicrosoft CoPilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndj9Jk-tGKoBase44?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEUWtqvsis Gemini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1yGy9fELtEAnthropic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnjDLwZckA ai.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7I-D4YXbzg&t=3s 16:35 Justin -If you ever want to knowif there’s a bubble, spending dumb money on the Super Bowl on an ad that makes no sense is probably your number one clue.” 16:53 It’s Earnings Time! Microsoft (MSFT) Q2 earnings report 2026 Microsoft Q2 2026 earnings show Azure cloud growth slowing to 39% from 40% in the prior quarter, missing analyst expectations of 39.4% and causing shares to drop 7% in after-hours trading. The company’s gross margin hit a three-year low at 68% due to substantial AI infrastructure investments totaling $37.5 billion in capital expenditures, up 66% year over year.OpenAI now represents 45% of Microsoft’s $625 billion remaining commercial performance obligation after the company committed to a $250 billion cloud services deal during the quarter. This concentration raises questions about revenue dependence on a single customer, though Microsoft maintains that the remaining backlog is still larger and more diversified than most compet... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Speed Run Your AWS Account(00:01:27) - Super Bowl LI Commercials(00:02:08) - The Super Bowl Commercials(00:04:40) - 15 Dumb Apps Built With No Code(00:06:30) - Top 10 Ads Using AI(00:07:40) - OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Chat(00:12:42) - A AI Startup Spends $70 Million On A Dumb Ad(00:15:50) - Microsoft Earnings: Down 7%(00:19:19) - Google Cloud Earnings Beat Estimates(00:21:39) - Amazon's 200 Billion Investment Plan for Cloud Infrastructure(00:28:04) - Heroku to Become a Sustaining Engineering Model(00:31:32) - AWS Security: The Last Minute Attack(00:35:28) - Cloud Business Model: How ML Makes Money(00:44:15) - OpenAI GPT5.3 Codex(00:46:21) - Facebook Testing Adverts on Free and Go Tier Users(00:47:18) - Claude Opus 4.6 on Cloud, More(00:48:17) - Snowflake and Databricks: Supervisor Agent(00:49:38) - HashiCorp Launches Agent Skills Pack(00:53:22) - Amazon's New massively big C8ID and R8ID Inst(00:55:49) - AWS IAM Identity Center: Multi Region Replication(00:59:00) - JSON Schema Compliance in Bedrock(01:00:35) - Amazon Redshift: Automatic Optimization now in place(01:02:05) - Google Cloud: Developer Knowledge API & MCP Server(01:06:27) - Bolt 2.8 in Python vs. Google Docs(01:08:49) - Google Cloud Expands Sovereign Cloud Portfolio(01:09:44) - Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready Program(01:11:43) - Charlie Bell Retires as EVP of Security and Focus on Quality(01:17:40) - Azure Database for PostgreSQL at Ignite 2019(01:19:55) - Microsoft OneLake & Snowflake: Bi directional Iceberg Tables(01:21:58) - Azure Container Storage 2.10: Native elastic SAN Integration with(01:23:22) - SQLCon 2018(01:24:51) - This Week in the Cloud: Earnings
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      1 h et 26 min
    • 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!” 06:49 Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Podcast(00:01:40) - SpaceX to Deploy 1 Million Satellites as Data Centers for(00:06:50) - Notepad Hacked by State Sponsored Hackers(00:14:52) - Amazon Layoffs: What They Mean for Product Development(00:18:34) - Google's Genie 3 AI World Model Available for Ultra Users(00:23:15) - OpenAI to Retire Older ChatGPT Models(00:27:06) - OpenAI Launches Codex on a Mac OS X App(00:33:46) - AWS: Automatically Promote Code to Production with AI Agents(00:38:59) - AWS STS: Validation of Provider Specific Claims (OID(00:44:10) - Amazon Cloudfront Announces Mutual TLS Authentication with Origin(00:50:30) - Amazon EventBridge: Increased 1 megabyte payload size for Machine Learning(00:56:31) - Google Cloud BigQuery: Conversational Analytics in 2020(00:57:59) - Google Cloud Launches Single Tenant Cloud HSM(01:02:53) - How to manage 15,000 keys on a single HSM with(01:05:47) - Microsoft Launches DLSV7, DSV7 and ESV(01:11:31) - This Week in the Cloud: The Cloud: AI & More
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      1 h et 13 min
    • 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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      1 h et 13 min
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