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170: The Cloud Pod Is Also Intentionally Paranoid
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses Jonathan’s penance for his failures. Plus: Microsoft makes moves on non-competes, NDAs, salary disclo...
169: The CloudPod bounces back with Elastic Disaster Recovery
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, half the team whizzes through the news in record time. Plus: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Google Distributed Cloud adds ...
168: The Cloud Pod Celebrates GCP Madrid Region With Sangria
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the new Madrid region’s midday siesta shutdown. Plus: Broadcom acquires VMWare for $61 billion, Azure...
167: The Cloud Pod Gets Sucked In by the Graviton3
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team talks tactics for infiltrating the new Google Cloud center in Ohio. Plus: AWS goes sci-fi with the new Graviton3 ...
166: The Cloud Pod Eagerly Awaits the Microsoft Pay Increase
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team struggles with scheduling to get everyone in the same room for just one week. Plus, Microsoft increases pay for t...
164: The Cloud Pod SWIFT-ly Moves Its Money to Google Cloud
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter’s been suspended without pay for two weeks for not filing his vacation requests in triplicate. Plus it’s earning...
165: The Cloud Pod Angry That Amazon Describes Step Functions as Low Code
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses wholesome local Oakland toast for breakfast. Plus: Hybrid infrastructure is unsustainable, the AWS Prot...
162: The Cloud Pod Catches a Fleeting Glimpse of Google Cloud Optimization
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team rediscovers who Ryan is after an eternity (a secret agent). Plus AWS Fargate now delivers faster scaling of appli...
163: The Cloud Pod Pushes the Azure Red Button
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team establishes that Justin may be immune to COVID. Plus all the latest from the AWS Summit, Azure Red Button team up...
TCP Talks: The Service Not the Software: Anthony Lye on Evolution and Revolution
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Anthony Lye, Executive Vice President and General Manager of NetApp’s Public ...
161: The Cloud Pod Observes Its Databases With Google Cloud SQL Insights
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week and with half the team gone fishin’, Justin and Peter hash it out short and sweet. Plus Google Cloud SQL Insights, Atlass...
160: The Cloud Pod Goes Fishing on Google BigLake
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Google Biglake takes the feature of the week with the ability to federate data from multiple data lakes. On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusse...
159: The Cloud Pod Suspends Its (GCP) Hosts
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan is in the doghouse and he’s been suspended (with full pay). Plus, we’re comfortably numb with AWS Cloud NGFW, GCP...
158: The Cloud Pod Discloses All of Its Okta Breaches
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, it’s a brave new world for Ryan, who learns all kinds of things. Plus the Okta breach leads to customer outrage over not...
157: The Cloud Pod Goes on a Quest…. An AWS Cloud Quest
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses Peter’s concept of fun. Plus digital adventures with AWS Cloud Quest game, much-wanted Google price i...
156: The Cloud Pod Takes Back Everything It Said About Windows vs Linux Security
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team reminisces about dealing with awful database technologies, which Ryan luckily managed to avoid. Plus all things c...
155: The Cloud Pod Shows Green in the New AWS Status Page
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team heads down a Cisco business model rabbithole. Plus cloud status pages struggle with reality, AWS is tracking carb...
154: The Cloud Pod Is QUIC and Rusty This Week
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, order in the court! Plus tackling those notorious latency issues with AWS Local Zones, things get quick and rusty with AWS...
153: The Cloud Pod Gets the (CloudFormation) Stage Hook
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s got his detective hat on. Plus Akamai steps up to CloudFare with Linode acquisition, AWS’ CloudFormation Ho...
152: Is GCP Rebranding No-Code as ‘Visual Interface’?
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan grapples with life in the confusion matrix. Plus money money money with Q4 2021 earnings announcements, shiny new dig...
151: Free Trial Ends Next Month… or Does It?
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, we’re back to a full house (at least for one episode.) Plus, introducing AWS open-source Cloud Map, GCP announces new Bi...
150: The Cloud Pod Exfiltrates Jonathan’s Credentials
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan is still AWOL. Also Amazon is on GuardDuty with credential exfiltration, Google Cloud Deploy is generally availab...
149: The Cloud Pod BreaksFormation
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team decides 2022 is already a long, cursed year — bring on 2023. Plus nuggets of wisdom from Gartner, Orca discover...
148: The Cloud Pod Siemplify’s Our First Recording of 2022
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter finally gets to share his top announcements of 2021. Plus, Google increases security with Siemplify, Azure updates D...
147: Goodbye 2021, A log4j kinda year
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EDITORIAL NOTE: Your Cloud Pod hosts are on vacation until early January!! Enjoy our 2021 wrapup and look ahead to 2022 and we’ll be back in you...
146: The Google CyberCAT is Out of the Bag
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Oracle finally has some news to share. Plus Log4j is ruining everyone’s lives, AWS suffers a massive outage post re:Inve...
145: The Cloud Pod Evidently Wants to Talk about re:Invent
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team finds out whose re:Invent 2021 crystal ball was most accurate. Also Graviton3 is announced, and Adam Selipsky giv...
144: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Cloud Pod: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021 — Episode 144 On The Cloud Pod this week, as a birthday present to Ryan, the team didn...
143: It’s Chaos in the Cloud Pod Studio
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the pod squad is down to the OG three while Ryan is away. Also AWS announces serverless pipelines, GCP releases Spot Pods,...
142: The Cloud Pod spends the Weekend at the Google Data Lakehouse
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team wishes for time-traveling data. Also, GCP announces Data Lakehouse, Azure hosts Ignite 2021, and Microsoft is out...
TCP Talks: From Monolith to Microservices: Jonathan Heiliger on Modern IT Service Management
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Jonathan Heiliger, co-founder and partner at Vertex Ventures: an early-stage ve...
141: The Cloud Pod Wears Gaudi Outfits for Amazon’s New Deep Learning Accelerator
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, half the team misses Rob and Ben. Also, AWS Gaudi Accelerators speed up deep learning, GCP announces that its Tau VMs are ...
TCP Talks: Josh Stella on How Security Automation is Changing the Game in the Cloud
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO of Fugue, a cloud security company that helps b...
140: The Cloud Pod Buys all its Synapse in Advance
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team’s collective brain power got a boost from guest hosts Rob Martin of the FinOps Foundation and Ben Garrison of J...
139: Back to the Future With Google Distributed Cloud
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan reveals his love for “Twilight.” Plus GCP kicks off Google Cloud Next and announces Google Distributed Cloud,...
138: Cloud Pod productivity is way up thanks to the Facebook outage
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is running at half-duplex without Peter and Ryan. Plus Cloudflare R2 is here, Facebook died for a day, and AWS re...
137: Now Serving Clients in the Shire
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Justin may be out but the cloud stops for no one. Also, AWS announces a New Zealand region, GCP releases GKE Backup, and A...
136: Take us to your Google Cloud Digital Leader
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the whole team definitely isn’t completely exhausted. Meanwhile, Amazon releases MSK Connect, Google offers the Google C...
135: The Cloud Pod Goes to Google Cloud Toronto, Eh?
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS releases OpenSearch and EKS Anywhere, Google Cloud is now available in the Toronto region, and Microsoft deals with tw...
134: The Cloud Pod has NetApp ONTAP
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team wishes there was something else on tap, not just NetApp. Also, AWS Storage Day has come and gone again, and Azure...
133: Google Cloud Serverless Functions now with Servers
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS releases new features including Managed Grafana, GCP Serverless solves the cold start problem, and Wiz hacks into Cosm...
132: The Cloud Pod takes a trip down MemoryDB lane
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the results of the AWS Summit prediction draft are in. It was probably worth getting up early for — especially if you’...
131: The Cloud Pod relaxes and has an AWS data brew
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, everyone’s favorite guessing game is back, with the team making their predictions for AWS Summit and re:Inforce — whic...
130: The Cloud Pod has how many unattended Google projects?
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, it’s been an interesting few days in the cloud, so the team members have made themselves comfortable with plenty of adul...
129: The Cloud Pod ditches our m1.small instances
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is back in full force and some are sporting fresh tan lines. Also, it’s earnings season, so get ready for some ...
128: Azure puts its gold in CloudKnox
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, it’s a merry-go-round of vacations, with Jonathan returning and Ryan escaping while Peter tunes in from Hawaii. Also, th...
127: The Cloud Pod drowns in the HealthLake
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, if you were impressed by Matthew Kohn’s ability to wing it last time, then you’re in luck because he’s back. Also, t...
126: The Cloud Pod Gives Amazon Money in Advance
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, with a couple of no-shows, Justin and Ryan’s Happy Hour includes returning guests Matthew Kohn and Sara Tumberella. Also...
125: JEDI is Dead, and the Cloud Pod Launches Bottlerockets in Celebration
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan was busy buying stuff on Amazon Prime Day and didn’t want to talk about JEDI, so he arrived late to the recording. ...
124: The Cloud Pod now with millions of bugs
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, with the first half of the year full of less-than-ideal events, the team is looking forward to another next six months of ...
123: The Cloud Pod does Step in the Studio
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan pulls a classic move from 2020 and doesn’t realize he’s on mute. Also, the team completely destroys an articl...
122: Welcome to Crash Consistency Week
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Matthew Kohn joins the team as a substitute for Jonathan and Peter, who have gone AWOL. Also, Google demonstrates again wh...
121: Blue Origin finds new “dummy” to go to space
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is sending the former CEO of one of the biggest technology companies in the world to space a good idea? On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses...
120: The Cloud Pod crosses the data streams
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, apparently there was a machine learning conference because there is A LOT of machine learning news. For the listeners (and...
119: Oracle announces something amazing, The Cloud Pod worldview shook
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, Ryan is stuck somewhere in a tent under a broken-down motorcycle but is apparently still having fun. A big...
118: The Cloud Pod talks LaMDA, which one?
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the fine art of writing the podcast show notes so there are bullet points for when Peter shows up witho...
116: The Cloud Pod is positively charged for AWS Proton
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, Yahoo is back and cheaper than ever. Just kidding, it’s Ryan who is back and the team is curious as to how he managed to...
114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news be...
113: The Cloud Pod goes mobile
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan has given all his money to the Amazon press team to write really confusing headlines just to annoy Peter. Also, Jonat...
112: The Cloud Pod bots are in control
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the future of the podcast and how they’ll know they’ve made it when listeners use Twitter to bombar...
111: The Cloud Pod now available at 9600 bps, 8 bits and 1 stop bit
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and...
110: They didn’t even call The Cloud Pod about the AWS CEO role
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Disappointed not to see Amazon take the opportunity to increase its executive diversity with its new CEO. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:...
109: The Cloud Pod Hopes all Fault Injections are Simulated
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team debate the merits of daylight savings and how they could use it to break things in a spectacular fashion. A...
108: The Cloud Pod moves forward without JEDI
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s brain is a little scrambled and he can’t remember when he last went out for dinner even though it was with ...
Solutions Architect To SADA CTO: Miles Ward on how and why the Google Cloud has the edge
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of TCP Talks, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Miles Ward, the founder of the Google Cloud’s Solutions Architecture pract...
107: The Cloud Meshes with Microsoft
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter is spending the next 12 hours in a rejuvenation chamber like a regular villain straight out of a James Bond film. ...
Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on. Gartner ...
Episode 105: The Cloud Pod’s heart is a Flutter with Space Edge
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan is getting his beauty sleep so you’ll have to make do with the comic stylings of Justin, Peter and Ryan. A big ...
Episode 104: The Cloud Pod gets Introspection Capabilities
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, The Team are on the brink and three more months of the pandemic will likely push the podcast over the edge into an abyss o...
Episode 103: Bezos retires over Slack outage — Episode 103
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Peter’s washing night so please enjoy the soothing sounds of the odd spin cycle as we dive into the huge news coming out of Amazon on The Clo...
Episode 102: The Cloud Pod is NOT OK
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week. A big thanks t...
Episode 101: AWS plays the Parler games
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, news has been a bit slow coming out of the Cloud Providers; the team suspects they might be curled up on the floor in feta...
Episode 100: The Cloud Pod tail -f’s the news
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, it appears 2020 is not done with us yet and Ryan receives a mystery emergency alert to kick the show off. A big thanks to ...
Mark Curphey from Open Raven: Getting the birds-eye view of cloud data security
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This interview is part of a paid sponsorship between Open Raven and The Cloud Pod. In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Bake...
Episode 99: 2020 overstays its welcome
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team looks back on the incredibly weird year that was 2020 and how all we want is to give each other a hug (but we don...
Episode 98: AWS tries the JEDI mind trick again
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In its final week, re:Invent continues to deliver a slew of announcements, which are captured on The Cloud Pod this week. It came and went quickly for...
Episode 97: S3 Buckets land the key to success
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team admits defeat and acknowledges they are not experts in machine learning. Joining them in that club is the rest of...
Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Santa arrived early and he brought all the goods with him to The Cloud Pod this week. The team dives into all the big announcements from AWS re:invent...
Episode 95 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team used their slightly cloudy crystal balls to share their predictions for Re:Invent 2020. They hope Amazon doesn’...
Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of ...
Episode 93: Docker Hub rate limits The Cloud Pod
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While waiting on tenterhooks to find out who will win the U.S. presidential race, the team welcomed guest Jacques Chester to The Cloud Pod this week. ...
Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the conspiracy theory surrounding media coverage of daylight savings and continues counting down to re:...
Episode 91: The Cloud Pod Hashi’s it out
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team acknowledges the very real issue of canine confusion as a result of everyone wearing face masks. A big thanks t...
Episode 90: The Cloud Pod gets a NanoDegree on podcasting
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter turns into an old man in his yard, yelling at cloud providers. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Co...
Episode 89: Azure gives The Cloud Pod an advisor score of 100
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan is shocked the rest of the team managed so well without him while he was on vacation. A big thanks to this week’s s...
Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your hosts have an action-packed episode in store for you on The Cloud Pod this week, and Ryan is back after surviving the wild Oregon forest. A b...
Episode 87 – The Cloud Pod gets the AWS Perspective
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts eagerly await next week’s Google product announcements so they can update their old phones. A big t...
Episode 86 – Google Cloud Next Digital Finally Ends
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts just want to be wowed and Ryan is off motorcycling somewhere in the desert. A big thanks to this week’s spons...
Get Your Hands Cloudy with Forrest Brazeal from A Cloud Guru – Episode 11
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Forrest Brazeal, a Senior Manager at A Cloud Guru, a cloud education platform t...
Episode 85 – The Cloud Pod Plays Buzzword Bingo on Machine Learning
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts introduce the idea of plaques to commemorate a feature suggestion becoming a product. A big thanks to this week...
TCP Talks: SAP Cloud Migrations with Protera CTO, Patrick Osterhaus
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This interview is part of a paid sponsorship between Protera and The Cloud Pod. In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker t...
Episode 84: We knew Ian was a hero before AWS
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your hosts kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by discussing the elephant in the room… the great Google outage. A big thanks to this wee...
Episode 82: Azure says “How About them Apples, Open Usage Commons”
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a new week, and that means you can be sure that Google Next is still going on… and of course, we’ve got a new episode of The Cloud Pod. A b...
Episode 83: The Cloud Pod takes a Quantum Leap
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your hosts set right what once went wrong in this week’s quantum episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulti...
Ep 81 – Azure & GCP … Are you ok?
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an unexpectedly short and sweet conference week on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Con...
Episode 80: The Cloud Pod now with more Seoul
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Mckay fills in for Jonathan on this week’s double-stuffed episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, ...
TCP Talks with Aqua Security’s Liz Rice
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker chat with Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering for Aqua Security, which provides tools...
Episode 79 – The Cloud Pod Confidential
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Cloud Pod Confidential — Episode 79 Your hosts kick off the nine weeks of Google Next on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to...
Episode 77b: Google Next Prediction Show
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud Next Predictions Your show hosts come to you with their cloudy crystal balls to give us Google Cloud Next Prediction show for Thomas Kuri...
Ep 78 – Honey, I built an App
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Architect Matt Kohn fills in for Peter on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, which pr...