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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Cloud announcements become practical debates about cost, security, reliability, and the operational consequences hidden behind product launches.
The Cloud Pod turns a crowded cloud-news agenda into a candid working session among Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew. AWS, Azure, and GCP provide the recurring frame, while the hosts test announcements against practical questions about cost, security, reliability, and…
AWS goes down, Azure follows, and your multi-cloud contingency plan needs a sense of humor.
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A practical cloud discussion links temporary credentials, incident chatter, and the limits of AI-assisted operations.
The Cloud Pod frames an AI agent exposing secrets as an access-design problem, moving from a OnePassword CLI scenario into Amazon single sign-on, Google credentials as an identity provider, and passkeys.
A dry, practical cloud conversation about AWS layoffs, AI coding tools, and the stubborn pull of VS Code.
The Cloud Pod opens with an AWS layoffs title that gives the episode its neatest framing: "scale down instead of scale out." The hosts turn that phrase over as both a headline and a small source of tension, then settle into a looser rhythm shaped by readout practice, title…
A cloud-event prediction game becomes a dry, useful test of research, memory, and co-pilot counting.
This cloud-news episode turns an Ignite prediction game into a close look at how hosts make forecasts when the evidence is patchy. The hosts debate tiebreakers, decide whether co-pilot mentions or stage announcements should count, and put a number on how often co-pilot might…
A cloud-news panel tests vendor announcements against production tradeoffs.
The Cloud Pod treats cloud news less as a headline rundown than as a debate over how production systems really behave. Its Amazon coding-bot lead moves into a pointed discussion of Cloudflare's Code Mode MCP server, framed around exposing the Cloudflare API through search and…
A brisk annual audit turns cloud predictions, provider friction, and agent standards into a practical 2026 forecast.
The Cloud Pod starts 2026 with its annual look back at last year's predictions before laying out a fresh set of cloud bets for the year ahead.
A cloud-news panel finds the operational stakes in dial-up's afterlife and AWS's database-driver shift.
The CloudPod turns a busy cloud-news week into a useful look at infrastructure that never quite leaves. AOL discontinuing dial-up internet service on September 30, 2024, and the 163,000 US households still using dial-up in 2023, give the episode a grounded frame: legacy systems…
Cloud banter, a quick Azure swipe, and a practical Gemini CLI overview.
The episode starts in a loose cloud-news mode, with the hosts cracking jokes about vendor chatter, including a quick jab at Azure and an easy willingness to move past anything that does not hold their interest.
A cloud-news roundup that keeps dragging AI hype back to permissions and production.
The Cloud Pod frames the episode as a cloud-news roundup that keeps returning to AI access, security, and permissions. The Project Snowwork segment is the clearest stretch, with the panel pressing on whether RBAC and authorization will hold up in practice.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
The Cloud Pod episode centers on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud earnings, with AWS reporting $33 billion in Q3 revenue and Amazon raising 2025 capex guidance to $125 billion.
The panel opens with the AWS outage that made the whole internet feel a bit shaky.
The Cloud Pod episode "AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out" opens with the hosts joking that the title is hard to read before moving into SpaceX and xAI, where they discuss up to 1 million satellites as orbital data centers.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 336, recorded January 6th, 2026, reviews 2025 predictions, new 2026 prophecies, and a 500-page archive of show history.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 342, recorded February 10, 2026, centers on Super Bowl AI commercials from OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Base44, Gemini, Anthropic, and ai.com.
The Cloud Pod episode 318, recorded August 19th, 2025, has Ryan and Jonathan covering AWS, GCP, and Azure while Matt is on vacation.
Episode 319 of The Cloud Pod, recorded August 26, 2025, centers on AWS Cost MCP, Matt Garman’s warning that replacing junior developers with AI is “the dumbest idea ever,” and a long Prime Day 2025 scale recap.
The show opens with daylight-saving-time banter and a running joke about a forest background.
The episode opens with Gmail's long-awaited username change.
Episode 324 of The Cloud Pod, recorded September 30th, 2025, opens with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew joking about vacation coverage and BoltBot handling show notes.
The Cloud Pod episode 338, recorded January 13, 2026, opens with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew reacting to a rough week for show titles and cloud news.
Justin opens by blaming Matt for the show notes, and the panel treats the trimmed-down, Azure-heavy agenda as a small mercy.
The Cloud Pod episode “The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers” opens with event notices for the FinOps Weekly Summit on October 23rd and Microsoft Ignite at Moscone Center from November 18th to 21st, plus jokes about “normal time zones” and manager letters.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 325, recorded October 7, 2025, ranges from OpenAI SORA 2’s synchronized audio and cameos to AWS’s NBA partnership and AWS invoice correction tools.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 333, recorded December 2, 2025, centers on Google’s Nano Banana Pro, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s code-red response to Gemini’s growth.
The Cloud Pod episode 326, recorded October 14th, 2025, opens with SonicWall confirming that all cloud-backup users had firewall configuration files exposed, including AES-256-encrypted credentials, MFA seeds, API keys, and authentication tokens.
The Cloud Pod episode on September 2, 2025 opens with Google avoiding a potential $2.5 trillion breakup, then moves into OpenAI GPT real-time, Terraform Google Cloud provider 7.0, and Gremlin’s MCP server for chaos-engineering data.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 334, “AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational,” centers on re:Invent 2025 and Matt Garman’s keynote, with the hosts counting 183 mentions of “AI” across the major keynotes.
Episode 343 of The Cloud Pod, recorded February 17th, 2026, opens with the hosts naming AWS CloudWatch, a Notepad security issue, Chrome's WebMCP, Anthropic's funding round, and new model releases from Alibaba and ByteDance.
The Cloud Pod episode “Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!” moves from Fastly’s reported 15.5 million requests-per-second DDoS attack to AWS’s new Secret West region for classified workloads.
Episode 329 opens with the Azure Front Door outage and the hosts’ immediate reaction to just how large it was.
The hosts discuss Anthropic's acquisition of Vercept to improve AI computer use, then delve into the government banning Anthropic from military use after war game studies showed AI models opting for nuclear options.
The panel opens on OpenAI and Microsoft and the non-binding memorandum that reshapes their partnership.
The hosts cover weekly cloud and AI news, including Azure Ignite predictions, CloudFlare's outage analysis, OpenAI's GPT 5.1 release, Microsoft's $30 billion Anthropic partnership, and Kubernetes Ingress Nginx retirement.
The hosts of The Cloud Pod draft their predictions for AWS re:Invent 2025, covering AI innovations like serverless GPUs, new chips, multimodal models, and agent platforms, while debating their chances in a fun, competitive format.
CloudFlare solved the impossible: 2,500 API endpoints through just two tools.
The CloudPod’s Episode 347, recorded March 17th, 2026, opens by saying the show is recording "because of AI," and the hosts immediately joke about being replaced by robots.
The Cloud Pod episode from September 23rd, 2025 opens with Google and Kaggle's five-day AI agents course, scheduled for November 10th through 14th, and compares it with a prior Gen AI course that drew 280,000 learners.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 337, recorded January 6th, 2026, centers on AWS price moves, Google AI releases, and several high-dollar AI acquisitions.
The episode starts with the hosts checking in.
Weekly roundup of cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a humorous anecdote about Outlook issues on Artemis II.
Weekly roundtable discussion on the latest cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The hosts discuss Microsoft's new AI agent trust issues and Google Cloud's earnings beat with increased spending forecast.
Weekly roundtable discussing cloud and AI news, including a zero-day exploit targeting on-premise SharePoint servers.
A roundtable discussion with FinOps experts about trends and insights from the San Diego FinOpsX conference.
Weekly roundup of cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, with discussion of SoftBank and OpenAI's AI infrastructure project.
Weekly roundtable discussion on cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, including earnings and CapEx spending.
The hosts discuss the latest cloud and AI news, including a rejected proposal for a data center co-located with a nuclear power plant.
The hosts discuss recent cloud and AI news, including OpenAI executive departures and potential new ventures.
Weekly roundtable discussing cloud and AI news, including CrowdStrike's post-mortem on their July outage.