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The Cloud Pod

By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News

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.

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365: Linux Drops 432 CVEs, Sysadmins Drop Everything Else

1 hr 27 min

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Weekly
Typical length
1 hr 13 min
Latest release
Aug 5, 2026
Language
EN-US

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 27 min

365: Linux Drops 432 CVEs, Sysadmins Drop Everything Else

Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan is out trying to find Hotel California, but Justin, Matt, and Jonathan are in the studio today, and they’ve got a lot of news and some great convo – from privacy in the digital age to Nova models (and a lot of employees) getting the ax,

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 5 min

364: AWS Billing Bug Sends Invoices to the Moon

Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including (surprise) astronomical AWS bills, Kimi K3 and what it means for Enterprise AI, and lots of security news! All that and so much more, so l

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The Cloud Pod57 min

362: Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API

Welcome to episode 362 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are in the studio, and this week we’ve got slightly less AI, but much more data news – a trend Jonathan is sure will continue. Join us as we explore Kubernetes updates, the end of Amazon Mechanical Turk, and the last

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 24 min

361: Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works

Welcome to episode 361 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! It’s a full house tonight – Justin, Ryan, Jonathan (and eventually) Matt are all in the studio this week to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including a greenlight for Mythos, an ACME product that *doesn’t* involve an anvil, and a co

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 38 min

359: Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it's Just Cloud Budgets

Welcome to episode 359 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including AI governance, FinOps’ final conference, and even an earnings story courtesy of Oracle. These and so much more – so let’s get started! Titl

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 1 min

357: Cache Me If You Can - Now With Durability

Welcome to episode 357 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! Is AI costing more than the people it replaced? Are CEO’s suffering from AI psychosis? Is Opus 4.8 better than 4.7? We answer all of these questions

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 31 min

354: US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation

Welcome to episode 354 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! This week was sort of a tire fire for the cloud, with US-East-1 losing power, TanStack Supply chain being hit with an impressively creative attack, and Linux getting hit with a second vulnerability in as many weeks. But it’s not all bad news –

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 40 min

353: Don't Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely

Welcome to episode 353 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest news, including earnings from the big 3, a new agreement between the DOW and Google (Don’t be Evil), AI Agents, and more OpenClaw news (that your security

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 46 min

352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza

Welcome to episode 352 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are safely back from Vegas (Ryan and Justin, anyway), and they have all the news and announcements from Google Next. Plus, we have Ryan’s take on Phish, news from Cloudflare, and a shoe company making a pivot. There’s a

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 27 min

351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money

Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 4 min

349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx

Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 11 min

348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions

Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 11 min

345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery

Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what’s going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 2 min

344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It

Welcome to episode 344 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is out of the office at a World of Warcraft Tournament (not really), and Ryan is pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a roadie for The Eagles (maybe?), so it’s Jonathan and Matt holding down the fort this week, and they’ve got a ton

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 12 min

343: AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze

Welcome to episode 343 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week bringing you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including some of the smaller clouds like Cloudflare and Crusoe Cloud, as well as announcements from the big guys like Google’s Gemini DeepTh

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The Cloud Pod1 hr 13 min

341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out

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

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