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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 concrete engineering questions about cost, security, reliability, and the operational limits hidden beneath new features.
The Cloud Pod turns cloud news into a working conversation among Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew. AWS, Azure, and GCP provide the recurring frame, while the hosts test announcements against the awkward realities of operating software: permissions, outages, changing schemas,…
A year-long Lambda sounds fun until you're debugging it eleven months later.
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A brisk cloud episode that moves from antitrust stakes to an AWS pricing question still being worked through.
Episode 320 starts with Google's successful effort to avoid a potential $2.5 trillion breakup, then narrows into AWS instance economics and what the announcements might mean for cloud customers and partners.
A skeptical Ignite prediction game turns cloud announcement language into something the hosts can score later.
The CloudPod frames its Microsoft Ignite preview as a friendly prediction game, with the hosts arguing over how often the keynote will say co-pilot and what should qualify as a tiebreaker. One host notes that AI helped with the research and says the prompt will be shared later.
A brisk cloud-news panel links Sora 2's AI push with the quota limits that can still disrupt cloud systems.
The episode finds a useful through line between OpenAI's Sora 2 and the quieter mechanics of AWS service quotas. It treats Sora 2's synchronized audio, cameos, and improved physical accuracy as part of a broader multimodal AI contest, then moves into the less flashy risk of…
A grounded cloud AI roundup that keeps vendor momentum tied to production risk.
The Cloud Pod's 323rd episode frames cloud AI less as a novelty cycle than as an operations problem. It moves from Google's Kaggle course on autonomous agents to the hazards of natural-language database access, giving the announcements a useful practical edge.
A practical panel discussion about AI entering spreadsheets, security data, and everyday office workflows.
The episode frames Anthropic's Cowork as a test case for AI-assisted office work inside familiar company files. The panel explains how the macOS Claude desktop app can be given access to selected folders, then used with plain-language instructions for jobs like filling expense…
A brisk cloud-news roundup that keeps coming back to the trade-offs hiding behind new features.
The Cloud Pod gives its weekly cloud roundup a brisk, slightly skeptical edge. Episode 343 moves through AWS, GCP, and Azure, then lands on a Notepad markdown issue that feels oddly on brand: useful tools keep arriving, and the risk review never really catches up.
A skeptical cloud recap that treats AI tooling as a workflow problem.
Episode 340 plays like a cloud-news roundtable that moves past the Azure chatter and into two main threads: Microsoft's SQL AI assistant, Jimmy Droptables, and Google's free Gemini CLI course with deeplearning.ai.
A skeptical cloud check-in that turns predictions into a practical discussion of AI standards.
The Cloud Pod uses its annual prediction episode to revisit 2025, sketch out 2026, and take stock of cloud and AI direction. The strongest stretch is the discussion around standards, especially agent-to-agent protocols and MCP, where the show lands on a clear point: different…
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.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
The Cloud Pod episode 325, recorded on October 7, 2025, covers OpenAI’s AMD deal for up to 6 gigawatts of power, AWS’s NBA partnership, and a series of new cloud tooling releases.
CloudPod Episode 339, recorded January 20th, 2026, opens with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew arguing about host-count metrics before moving into AWS, Azure, and GCP news.
The Cloud Pod episode 321, recorded September 9, 2025, opens with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew trading jokes before the news turns to Cloudflare, Builder AI, Visual Studio, AWS, and GCP.
The CloudPod episode 344 centers on Amazon's AI coding bot outage story, Cloudflare's MCP architecture, and Anthropic's new Cloud Code Security and Cloud Code on Desktop releases.
The Cloud Pod episode 322 on September 16, 2025 centers on OpenAI and Microsoft signing a non-binding memorandum of understanding, with OpenAI's nonprofit entity getting an equity stake above $100 billion and Microsoft's cloud role changing from exclusivity to right of first refusal.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 333, recorded for December 2nd, 2025, opens with the hosts saying the post-Thanksgiving week feels “weird” and that they have not watched a single AWS re:Invent keynote yet.
The Cloud Pod episode for November 4, 2025 opens with Azure Front Door's October 29 global outage, which hit all regions at once and kept some customers waiting for recovery even after the official rollback.
The Cloud Pod episode 319, recorded August 26th, 2025, covers AWS Cost MCP, Matt Garman's warning that replacing junior developers with AI is "the dumbest idea ever," and Google's six-way split of AI developer tools.
The Cloud Pod’s September 30th, 2025 episode opens with Google’s complaint about Microsoft’s cloud licensing, including the 400% markup on Windows server workloads outside Azure and the CMA’s estimate of £500 million in yearly UK customer costs.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 334, recorded for December 9th, 2025, centers on AWS re:Invent and the episode’s headline theme of making Kubernetes and Lambda more conversational.
The Cloud Pod’s Episode 323, recorded September 23rd, 2025, spends a large stretch on Google’s five-day AI agents course with Kaggle, the 280,000-learner Gen AI course that came before it, and the episode’s running joke about “AI is how ML makes money.” Atlassian’s $1 billion purchase of DX is framed around developer productivity analytics, 350 enterprise customers, and the idea that AI budgets need measurement instead of guesses.
The Cloud Pod Episode 336, recorded January 6th, 2026, revisits 2025 predictions and grades the hosts on AI, cloud, and workplace forecasts.
CloudPod hosts Justin Jonathan and Ryan discuss Episode 340 covering major cloud and AI platform announcements from January 2026.
The Cloud Pod opens with a rough week in the cloud, led by AWS's outage and the familiar relief of surviving it on GCP and Azure.
The Cloud Pod episode 337, recorded January 6, 2026, centers on AWS pricing changes, Google DeepMind’s The Thinking Game, and a wave of cloud-security product updates.
The Cloud Pod episode 332 covers 2025 re:Invent predictions for AWS, Azure, and GCP, with the hosts joking about recording 332 before 331 and skipping Thanksgiving week.
The Cloud Pod episode 343, recorded February 17th, 2026, opens with AWS, GCP, and Azure news plus a Notepad markdown vulnerability tied to a February 2026 Windows update.
Episode 341 opens with a joke.
The Cloud Pod episode for October 28th, 2025 opens with AWS and Azure outage jokes, including a Corey Quinn reference and a claim about two 7.1 outages in two weeks.
The Cloud Pod opens with its weekly cloud news round-up and a quick detour into AOL ending dial-up.
The Cloud Pod episode recorded on December 16th, 2025 covers EKS network policies, Disney’s copyright fight with Google AI, and OpenAI’s $1 billion Disney licensing deal for 200 Sora characters.
The hosts open on a rough news week.
The Cloud Pod opens with the hosts juggling late recording logistics, a car in the shop, and the usual kid-and-schedule chaos.
The Cloud Pod spends much of episode 330 on AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud earnings, starting with AWS revenue of $33 billion and Amazon’s raised 2025 CapEx forecast of $125 billion.
The Cloud Pod Episode 338, recorded January 13, 2026, opens with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew joking about a rough week for show titles before moving into cloud and AI news.
The Cloud Pod episode recorded March 17, 2026 opens with the hosts joking that “The CloudPod is only recording this week because of AI,” then moves into Microsoft’s amicus brief supporting Anthropic after a $5 billion investment and a $30 billion Azure commitment.
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The Cloud Pod’s Episode 342, recorded February 10th, 2026, opens with a Super Bowl ad rundown that names OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Base44, Gemini, Anthropic, Zapier, and ai.com.
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The Cloud Pod Episode 326, recorded October 14th, 2025, opens with SonicWall confirming that 100% of cloud backup users had firewall configuration files exposed, including AES-256 encrypted credentials, MFA seeds, API keys, and authentication tokens.
Weekly roundup of cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with a humorous anecdote about astronauts using Outlook in space.
Weekly roundtable discussion on cloud and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, including Microsoft's integration of GitHub into its AI organization.
Weekly roundtable discussion of cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, including earnings reports and platform updates.
Weekly roundtable discussing latest cloud and AI news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, including a zero-day SharePoint exploit.
Weekly roundtable discussion on the latest cloud and AI news from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including a follow-up on SoftBank and OpenAI's AI infrastructure project.
Weekly roundtable discussion of the latest cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The hosts discuss the latest cloud and AI news, including a rejected proposal for a data center co-located with a nuclear power plant.
Weekly roundtable discussion of cloud computing and AI news from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including OpenAI developments.
Weekly roundtable discussion of cloud and AI news, covering AWS, Azure, and GCP updates, with a deep dive into CrowdStrike's post-incident report.
The hosts discuss recent cloud and AI news, including Terraform Enterprise adding Podman support and Red Hat Linux 7 end-of-life.