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The Cloud Pod is Now the Cloud Pod Podcast!

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01:37 Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions

Terraform is announcing the GA of Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0. The new version improves the extensibility and flexibility in the provider.
Since the Providers’ Last major release in March 2022, Hashi has added support for some 340 resources and 120 data sources, bringing the total Azure resources to 1,101 resources and almost 360 data sources.
The provider has topped 660M downloads, MS and Hashi continue to develop new, innovative integrations that further ease the cloud adoption journey to enterprise organizations.
With Terraform 1.8, providers can implement custom functions that you can call from the Terraform configuration. The new provider adds two Azure-specific provider functions to let users correct the casing of their resource IDs or access the individual components of it.
Previously, the Azure RM provider took an all-or-nothing approach to Azure resource provider registration, where the Terraform provider would either attempt to register a fixed set of 68 providers upon initialization or registration or be skipped.
This didn’t match Microsoft’s recommendations, which are to register resource providers only as needed, and to enable the services you’re actively using.
With adding two new feature flags, resource_provider_registrations and resource_providers_to_register, users now have more control over which providers to register automatically or whether to continue managing a subscription resources provider.
AzureRM has removed a number of deprecated items, and it is recommended that you look at the removed resources/data sources and the

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282: Search – ChatGPT vs Google…. Fight! 1:04:10

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281: Happy Birthday, ECS. You’re still so much better than K8 at 10! 44:38

30 weeks ago44:38

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Welcome to episode 281 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your hosts as we search the clouds for all the latest news and info. This week we’re talking about ECS turning 10 (yes, we were there when it was announced, and yes, we’re old,) some more drama from the CrowdStrike fiasco, lots of updates to GitHub, plus more. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Github Universe full of ECS containers Github Universe lives up to the Universal expectations A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 01:09 Dr. Matt Woods ended up at PWC as chief innovation officer YAWN What exactly does a chief innovation officer at PWC do? Is this like a semi-retirement? General News 01:44 TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update Delta isn’t backing down with CrowdStrike , and in a court filing said CrowdStrike should be on the hook for the entire $500M in losses, partly because CrowdStrike has admitted that it should have done more testing and staggered deployments to catch bugs. Delta further alleges that CrowdStrike postured as a certified best-in-class security provider who “never cuts corners,” while secretly designing its software to bypass Microsoft security certifications to make changes at the core of Delta’s computer systems without Delta’s knowledge. Delta says they would never have agreed to such a dangerous process if it had been disclosed. In its testimony to Congress, CrowdStrike said that they follow standard protocols, and that they are protecting against threats as they evolve. CrowdStrike is also accusing Delta of failing to follow laws, including best practices established by the TSA. According to CrowdStrike, most customers were up within a day of the issue – while Delta took 5 days. Crowdstrike alleges that Delta’s negligence caused this in following the TSA requirements designed to ensure that no major airline ever experiences prolonged system outages. CrowdStrike realized Delta failed to follow the requirements when its efforts to help remediate the issue revealed alleged technological shortcomings and failures to follow security best practices, including outdated IT systems, issues in Delta’s AD environment and thousands of compromised passwords. Delta threatened to sue Microsoft as well as CrowdStrike, but has only named CrowdStrike to date in the lawsuits. 3:48 Ryan – “It’s a tool that needs to evolve very quickly to emerging threats. And while the change that was pushed through shouldn’t have gone through that particular workflow, and that’s a m…

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280: Evidently, The Cloud Pod Was Always Right 55:53

31 weeks ago55:53

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Welcome to episode 280 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are your hosts as we travel through the latest in cloud news. This week we’re talking more about nuclear power, some additional major employee shakeups, Claude releases, plus saying RIP to CloudWatch Evidently and hello to Azure Cobalt VMs. Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud providers are colluding on Nuclear Power I fear our AWS AI nightmare might get worse without Dr. Matt Wood. I’m a glow with excitement about nuclear cloud power Plainly no one else knew what “CloudWatch Evidently” did either We sing a Claude Sonnet about Nuclear Power Evidently , The Cloud Pod was always right Amazon goes nuclear while their AI VP goes AWOL A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It’s Money 00:53 Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic is announcing the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a new Model Claude 3.5 Haiku. Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers across the board improvements over its predecessor, with particularly significant gains in coding — an area where it already leads the field (per anthropic). Claude 3.5 Haiku interestingly matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, the prior largest model, on many evaluations at the same cost and similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku. Claude 3.5 Sonnet also includes a groundbreaking new capability in beta: Computer Use. Available today as an API , developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do – by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons and typing text. Claude 3.5 is the first frontier AI model to offer this capability. Anthropic warns the feature is still experimental – at times cumbersome and error-prone. As well as things that are effortless for a human are still difficult including scrolling, dragging or zooming. The idea is to make Claude complete individual tasks, without always needing to leverage an API, like clicking in a GUI, or uploading a file from a computer. These types of solutions are typically found in Build and Test like scenarios with tools such as Saucelabs or Browserstack. To do this, Claude was built to perceive and interact with computer interfaces. You can use data from my computer to fill out this online form or check a spreadsheet, move the cursor to a web browser, navigate to the relevant web pages, select the data for the spreadsheet and so on. 3:06 Jonathan – “If you can take pictures of the screen, then it can identify where buttons and things are with…

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279: The Cloud Pod Glows With Excitement Over Google Nuclear Deal 54:48

32 weeks ago54:48

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Welcome to episode 279 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your guide through the Cloud. We’re talking about everything from BigQuery to Google Nuclear power plans, and everything in between! Welcome to episode 279! Titles we almost went with this week: AWS SKYNET (Q) now controls the supply chain AWS Supply Chain: Where skynet meets your shopping list Digital Ocean follows Azure with the Premium everything EKS mounts S3 GCP now a nuclear Big query don’t hit that iceberg Big Query Yells: “ICEBERG AHEAD” The Cloud Pod: Now with 50% more meltdown protection The Cloud Pod radiates excitement over Google’s nuclear deal A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 00:46 OpenAI’s Newest Possible Threat: Ex-CTO Murati Apologies listeners – paywall article. Given the recent departure of Ex-CTO Mira Murati from OpenAI, we speculated that she might be starting something new…and the rumors are rumorin’. Rumors have been running wild since her last day on October 4th, with several people reporting that there has been a lot of churn. Speculation is that Murati may join former Open AI VP Bret Zoph at his new startup. It may be easy to steal some people, as the research organization at Open AI is reportedly in upheaval after Liam Fedus’s promotion to lead post-training – several researchers have asked to switch teams. In addition, Ilya Sutskever, an Open AI co-founder and former chief scientist, also has a new startup. We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this particular soap opera. 2:00 Jonathan – “I kind wonder what will these other startups bring that’s different than what OpenAI are doing or Anthropic or anybody else. mean, they’re all going to be taking the same training data sets because that’s what’s available. It’s not like they’re going to invent some data from somewhere else and have an edge. I mean, I guess they could do different things like be mindful about licensing.” General News 4:41 Introducing New 48vCPU and 60vCPU Optimized Premium Droplets on DigitalOcean Those raindrops are getting pretty heavy as Digital Ocean announces their new 48vCPU Memory and storage optimized premium droplets, and 60vcpu general purpose and CPU optimized premium droplets. Droplets are DO’s Linux-based virtual machines. Premium Optimized Droplets are dedicated CPU instances with access to the full hyperthread, as well as 10GBps of outbound data transfer. The 48vCPU boxes have 384GB of memory, and the 60vCPU boxes have 160gb. 6:02 Justin – “I’ve been watchi…

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278: Azure is on a Bender: Bite my Shiny Metal FXv2-series VMs 46:44

33 weeks ago46:44

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Welcome to episode 278 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! When Justin’s away, the guys will… maybe get a show recorded? This week, we’re talking OpenAI, another service scheduled for the grave over at AWS, saying goodbye to pesky IPv4 fees, Azure FXv2 VMs, Valkey 8.0 and so much more! Thanks for joining us, here in the cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Another One Bites the Dust Peak AI reached: OpenAI Now Puts Print Statements in Code to Help You Debug A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Archera There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there. But only Archera provides cloud commitment insurance. It sounds fancy but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3 year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you don’t use all the cloud resources you’ve committed to, they will literally put money back in your bank account to cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “commitment insurance”, but remember to ask: will you actually give me my money back? Archera will. Click this link to check them out AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It’s Money 00:59 Introducing vision to the fine-tuning API . OpenAI has announced the integration of vision capabilities into its fine-tuning API, allowing developers to enhance the GPT-4o model to analyze and interpret images alongside text and audio inputs. This update broadens the scope of applications for AI, enabling more multimodal interactions. The fine-tuning API now supports image inputs, which means developers can train models to understand and generate content based on visual data in conjunction with text and audio. After October 31, 2024, training for fine-tuning will cost $25 per 1 million tokens, with inference priced at $3.75 per 1 million input tokens and $15 per 1 million output tokens. Images are tokenized based on size before pricing. The introduction of prompt caching and other efficiency measures could lower the operational costs for businesses deploying AI solutions. The API is also being enhanced to include features like epoch-based checkpoint creation, a comparative playground for model evaluation, and integration with third-party platforms like Weights and Biases for detailed fine-tuning data management. What does it mean? Admit it – you’re dying to know. Developers can now create applications that not only process text or voice but also interpret and generate responses based on visual cues, and importantly fine tuned for domain specific applications, and this update could lead to more intuitive user interfaces in applications, where users can interact with services using images as naturally as they do with text or speech, potentially expanding the user base to those less tech-savvy or in fields where visual data is crucial. 03:53 Jonathan – “I mean, I think it’s useful for things like quality assurance in manufacturing, for example. You know, could, you could tune it on what your nuts and bolts are supposed to look like and what a good bolt looks like and what a bad bolt looks like coming out of the factory. You just stream the video direct…

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277: Class E IPs, so now you can procrastinate IPv6 even longer 1:09:20

34 weeks ago1:09:20

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Welcome to episode 277 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are your hosts this week for a news packed show. This week we dive into the latest in cloud computing with announcements from Google’s new AI search tools, Meta’s open-sourced AI models, and Microsoft Copilot’s expanded capabilities. We’ve also got Oracle releases, and some non-liquid Java on the agenda (but also the liquid kind, too) and Class E IP addresses. Plus, be sure to stay tuned for the aftershow! Titles we almost went with this week: Which cloud provider does not have llama 3.2 Vmware says we will happily help you support your old Microsoft OS’s for $$$$ Class E is the best kind of IP Space Microsoft says trust AI, and so does Skynet 3.2 Llama’s walked into an AI bar… Google gets cranky about MS Licensing, join the club Write Your Prompts, Optimize them with Vertex Prompts Analyzer, rinse repeat into a vortex of optimization Oracle releases Java 23, Cloud Pod Uses Amazon Corretto 23 instead Oracle releases Java 23, Cloud Pod still says run! MK A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Archera There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there. But only Archera provides cloud commitment insurance. It sounds fancy but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3 year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you don’t use all the cloud resources you’ve committed to, they will literally put money back in your bank account to cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “commitment insurance”, but remember to ask: will you actually give me my money back? Archera will. Click this link to check them out https://shortclick.link/uthdi1 AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It’s Money 01:06 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, 2 other execs announce they’re leaving Listener Note: paywall article OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving, and within hours, two more OpenAI executives joined the list of high-profile departures. Mira Murati spent 6.5 years at the company, and was named CEO temporarily when the board ousted co-founder Sam Altman. “It’s hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to us all personally,” Altman wrote. “I feel tremendous gratitude towards her for what she has helped us build and accomplish, but most of all, I feel personal gratitude towards her for her support and love during all the hard times. I am excited for what she’ll do next.” Mira oversaw the development of ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E. She was also a pretty public face for the company, appearing in its videos and interviewing journalists. The other two departures were Barret Zoph, who was the company’s Vice President of Research and Chief Research officer Bob McGrew…

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276: New from AWS – Elastic Commute – Flex Your Way to an Empty Office 1:10:14

35 weeks ago1:10:14

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Welcome to episode 276 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, our hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan do a speedrun of OpenWorld news, talk about energy needs and the totally not controversial decision to reopen 3 Mile Island, a “managed” exodus from cloud, and Kubernetes news. As well as Amazon’s RTO we are calling “Elastic Commute”. All this and more, right now on The Cloud Pod. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Hosts don’t own enough pants for five days a week IBM thinks it can contain the cost of K8s Microsoft loves nuclear energy The Cloudpod tries to give Oracle some love and still does not care The cloud pod goes nuclear on k8s costs Can IBM contain the costs of Kubernetes and Nuclear Power? Google takes on take over while microsoft takes on nuclear AWS Launches ‘Managed Exodus’: Streamline Your Talent Drain Introducing Amazon WorkForce Alienation: Scale Your Employee Discontent to the Cloud Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: Now with Real-Time Resignation Prediction A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. General News 01:08 IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost IBM is quickly becoming the place where cloud cost companies go to assimilate? Or Die? Rebirthed mabe? Either way, it’s not a great place to end up. On Tuesday they announced the acquisition of Kubecost , a FinOps startup that helps teams monitor and optimize their K8 clusters, with a focus on efficiency – and ultimately cost. This acquisition follows the acquisitions of Apptio, Turbonomic , and Instana over the years. Kubecost is the company behind OpenCost ; a vendor-neutral open source project that forms part of the core Kubecost commercial offering. OpenCost is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundations cohort of sandbox projects. Kubecost is expected to be integrated into IBM’s FinOps Suite , which combines Cloudability and Turbonomic. There is also speculation that it might make its way to OpenShift, too. 02:26 Jsutin- “…so KubeCost lives inside of Kubernetes, and basically has the ability to see how much CPU, how much memory they’re using, then calculate basically the price of the EC2 broken down into the different pods and services.” AI Is Going Great –…

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275: I SQream, You SQream, We All SQream for AI Ice Cream 47:03

37 weeks ago47:03

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Welcome to episode 275 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are awake and ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud news, including SQream, a new partnership between OCI and AWS (yes, really) Azure Linux, and a lot of updates over at AWS. Get comfy and we’ll see you all in the cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: I SQream, You SQream, The CloudPod SQreams for AI Ice Cream AWS East gets Stability, but only for AI. AWS has some Lofty Goals Claude Learns BigQuery Azure now Securely Checks the Prompts from the cloud pod Azure find out about Linux A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. AWS 00:28 Stability AI’s best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock If you are like The CloudPod hosts, the part you care most about AI is the rapid ability to create graphics for any meme-worthy moment or funny pictures for that group chat. Luckily AWS has access to the latest image generation capability with 3 models from Stability AI . Stable Image Ultra – Produces the highest quality, photorealistic outputs perfect for professional print media and large format applications. Stable image Ultra excels at rendering exceptional detail and realism. Stable diffusion 3 large – strikes a balance between generation speed and output quality. Ideal for creating high-volume, high-quality digital assets for websites, newsletters and marketing materials. Stable Image Core – Optimized for fast and affordable image generation, great for rapidly iterating on concepts during ideation. One of the key improvements of Stable Image Ultra and Stable Diffusion 3 large compared to Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) is text quality in generated images, with fewer errors in spelling and typography thanks to innovation diffusion transformer architecture, which implements two separate sets of weights for image and text but enables information flow between the two modalities. 02:46 Justin – “I do notice more and more that, you get it, you get the typical product shot on Amazon, but then like they’ll insert the product into different backgrounds and scenes. Like, it’s a, it’s a lamp and all of a sudden it’s on a thing and they’re like, Hmm, that doesn’t look like a real photo though. It looks like AI. So you do notice it more and more.” 04:13 AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout We see you Amazon – trying to get two press releases for basically the same thing, not today sir! Both the AWS Network Load Balancer and Gateway Load Balancer have received a configurable TCP Idle timeout.…

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274: The Cloud Pod is Still Not Open Source 1:08:02

38 weeks ago1:08:02

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Welcome to episode 274 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we explore the world of SnapShots, Maia, Open Source, and VMware – just to name a few of the topics. And stay tuned for an installment of our continuing Cloud Journey Series to explore ways to decrease tech debt, all this week on The Cloud Pod. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod in Parallel Cluster The Cloud Pod cringes at managing 1000 aws accounts The Cloud Pod welcomes Imagen 3 with less Wokeness The Cloud Pod wants to be instantly snapshotted The Cloud pod hates tech debt A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. General News 00:32 Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again Shay Banon is pleased to call ElasticSearc h and Kibana “open source” again. He says everyone at Elastic is ecstatic to be open source again, it’s part of his and “Elastics DNA.” They’re doing this by adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. They never stopped believing or behaving like an OSS company after they changed the license, but by being able to use the term open source and by using AGPL – an OSI approved license – removes any questions or fud people might have. Shay says the change 3 years ago was because they had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So, after trying all the other options, changing the license – all while knowing it would result in a fork with a different name – was the path they took. While it was painful, they said it worked. 3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their OpenSearch fork, the market confusion has mostly gone, and their partnership with AWS is stronger than ever. They are even being named partner of the year with AWS. They want to “make life of our users as simple as possible,” so if you’re ok with the ELv2 or the SSPL, then you can keep using that license. They aren’t removing anything, just giving you another option with AGPL. He calls out trolls and people who will pick at this announcement, so they are attempting to address the trolls in advance. “Changing the license was a mistake, and Elastic now backtracks from it”. We removed a lot of market confusion when we changed our license 3 years ago. And because of our actions, a lot has changed. It’s an entirely different landscape now. We aren’t living in the past. We want to build a better future for our users. It’s because we took action then, that we are in a position to take action now. “AGPL i…

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273: Phi-fi-fo-fum, I Smell the Bones of The Cloud Pod Hosts 1:07:21

39 weeks ago1:07:21

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Welcome to episode 273 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold onto your butts – this week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew and (eventually) Jonathan are bringing you two weeks worth of cloud and AI news. We’ve got Karpenter, Kubernetes, and Secrets, plus news from OpenAI, MFA changes that are going to be super fun for Matthew, and Azure Phi. Get comfy – it’s going to be a doozy! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Teaches Azure-normalized Camel Casing The Cloud Pod Travels to Malaysia Azure Detaches Itself From its Own Scale Sets The Cloud Pod Conditionally Writes Show Notes You got MFA! The Cloud Pod Delays Deleting Itself The Cloud Pod is Now the Cloud Pod Podcast! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. General News 01:37 Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions Terraform is announcing the GA of Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 . The new version improves the extensibility and flexibility in the provider. Since the Providers’ Last major release in March 2022, Hashi has added support for some 340 resources and 120 data sources, bringing the total Azure resources to 1,101 resources and almost 360 data sources. The provider has topped 660M downloads, MS and Hashi continue to develop new, innovative integrations that further ease the cloud adoption journey to enterprise organizations. With Terraform 1.8 , providers can implement custom functions that you can call from the Terraform configuration. The new provider adds two Azure-specific provider functions to let users correct the casing of their resource IDs or access the individual components of it. Previously, the Azure RM provider took an all-or-nothing approach to Azure resource provider registration, where the Terraform provider would either attempt to register a fixed set of 68 providers upon initialization or registration or be skipped. This didn’t match Microsoft’s recommendations, which are to register resource providers only as needed, and to enable the services you’re actively using. With adding two new feature flags, resource_provider_registrations and resource_providers_to_register , users now have more control over which providers to register automatically or whether to continue managing a subscription resources provider. AzureRM has removed a number of deprecated items, and it is recommended that you look at the removed resources/data sources and the…

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272: AI: Now with JSON Schemas! 50:51

40 weeks ago50:51

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Welcome to episode 272 of The Cloud Pod! This week, Matthew and Justin are bringing you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including new updates to the ongoing Crowdstrike drama, JSON schemas, AWS vaults, and IPv6 addresses – even some hacking opportunities! All this and more, this week in the cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud pod is now logically air-gapped The Cloud Pod has continuous snark The Cloud Pod points the finger at delta AI now with JSON SCHEMAS!!! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 00:35 Crowdstrike RCA The final RCA is out from Crowdstrike, and as we talked during the preliminary report , this was an issue with a channel file that had 21 input parameters. No update previously had more than 20, and it was not caught in earlier testing. Crowdstrike has several findings, and mitigating actions that they are taking. They go into detail on each of them, and you can read through all of them at the linked document . 02:31 Justin – “…the one thing I would say is this would be a perfect RCA if it included a timeline, but it lacks, it lacks a timeline view.” 12:06 Justin – “…their mitigations don’t have any dates on them of when they’re going to be done or implemented, which, in addition to a timeline, it would be nice to see in this process.” 15:46 Microsoft joins CrowdStrike in pushing IT outage recovery responsibility back to Delta Microsoft has joined Crowdstrike in throwing Delta under the bus. Delta Airlines has been blaming Crowdstrike and MS for their recent IT woes, which the company claims cost them over $ 500 million . Microsoft says “Our preliminary review suggests that Delta, unlike its competitors, has not modernized its IT infrastructure, either for the benefit of its customers or for its pilots and flight attendants” Mark Cheffo from law firm Dechert representing MS. Gonna get ugly before this all gets settled. *Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif here* 16:43 Justin – “The struggle with, you know, offering to send someone on site to help you is, you know, you, you can’t vet them that quickly. And so you also have an obligation to your shareholders. You have obligations to your security controls and your SOC and ISO and all the things that you’re doing, you know, to, to allow some strangers into your network and then give them access required to fix this issue, which in some cases required you to…

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271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy 53:48

42 weeks ago53:48

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Welcome to episode 271 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts today as we discuss the latest news in cloud and AI, including earnings reports, Google’s legal trouble, and SQL updates. We even take a minute to give some side eye to AWS’s deprioritization techniques. Spoiler alert: 0 out of 5 stars for keeping customers informed. Titles we almost went with this week: No Google, you can’t own Park Place, Boardwalk, the railroads and the utilities Amazons Titan Image Generator is no titan of photography BigTable graduates to SQL support TikTok/Instagram, Azure Reliability and Temu bring down the big three clouds’ earnings Span your Mind to Graphs & Vectors DOJ rules The Cloud Pod should be your default news source The CloudPod – now with SQL support AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 00:45 Amazon decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services caught customers and even some salespeople by surprise Jeff Barr confirmed on Twitter (Yes will always call it Twitter) after recording last week’s episode that they had made the tough decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services. There is still no official blog post announcing this, beyond the confirmation from Jeff Barr. Amazon is discontinuing new access to a small number of services in the tweet – but would continue to run them in a secure environment. Jeff Bar confirmed the list of services to be S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline and CodeCommit. An AWS Spokesperson claimed to Business Insider that the changes were communicated through multiple channels within and outside the company. But were they REALLY though? 01:33 Justin – “Yeah, they kind of took a leap out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book and put the planning commission in the filing cabinet downstairs with the broken light.” General News It’s Earnings Time! 07:35 Alphabet meets earnings expectations but misses on YouTube ad revenue Alphabet revenue was up 14% YOY, driven by search and cloud, GCP surpassed $10B in quarterly revenues and…

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270: The Cloud Pod Puts a Hex-LLM on all these AI Announcements 53:39

42 weeks ago53:39

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The Cloud Pod Puts a Hex-LLM on all these AI Announcements Welcome to episode 270 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt and Justin are your hosts today as we sort through all of the cloud and AI news of the week, including updates to the Crowdstrike BSOD event, more info on that proposed Wiz takeover (spoiler alert: it’s toast) and some updates to Bedrock. All this and more news, right now on the Cloud Pod! Titles we almost went with this week: The antivirus strikes back The return of the crowdstrike The cloud pod is worth more than 23B The cloud pod is rebranded to the AI podcast The cloud pod might need to move to another git provider Amazon finally gets normal naming for end user messaging Amazon still needs to work on it’s end user messaging The CloudPod goes into hibernation before the next crisis hits EC2 Now equipped with ARM rests A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Follow Up 01:33 In what feels suspiciously like an SNL skit, CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage As you can imagine, Twitter (or X) had thoughts. Turns out they were just for third party partners that were helping with implementation. 2024 Economics wants to know – what are you going to do with only $10 with Uber Eats? Crowdstrike: Preliminary Post Incident Review Moving on to the actual story – The Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) is now out for the BSOD Crowdstrike event we talked about last week. Crowdstrike reports that a Rapid Response Content Update for the Falcon sensor was published to Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and above. The update was to gather telemetry on new threat techniques that targeted named pipes in the kernel but instead triggered a BSOD on systems online from 4:09 – 5:27 UTC. Ultimately, the crash occurred due to undetected content during validation checks, which resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read. To avoid this, Crowdstrike plans to do a bunch of things: Improve rapid response content testing by using testing types such as Local developer, content update and rollback, stress, fuzzing, fault injection, stability and content interface testing. Introduce additional validation checks in the content validator to prevent similar issues. Strengthen error handling mechanisms in the Falcon sensor to ensure errors from problematic content are managed gracefully. Adopt staggered deployment strategies, starting with a canary deployment to a small subset of systems before further staged rollouts Enhanced sensor and system performance monitoring during the staggered content deployment to identify and mitigate issues promptly. Allowing a granular section of when and where these updates are deployed will give customers greater contro…

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269: Crowdstrike: Does Anyone Know the Graviton of this Situation? 1:12:45

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Welcome to episode 269 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are your hosts this week as we talk about – you guessed it – the Crowdstrike update that broke, well, everything! We’re also looking at Databricks, Google potentially buying Wiz, NY Summit news, and more! Titles we almost went with this week: You can’t take Justin down; but a 23-hour flight to India (or Crowdstrike updates) can Google wants Wiz, and Crowdstrike Strikes all Crowdstrike, does anyone know the Graviton of this situation? We are called to this summit to talk AWS AI Supremacy Crowdstrike, Wiz and Chat GPT 4o Mini… oh my An Impatient Wiz builds his own data centers not impacted by Crowdstrike A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 00:58 You Guessed It – Crowdstrike Microsoft, CrowdStrike outage disrupts travel and business worldwide Our Statement on Today’s Outage (listener note: paywall article) It’s not every day you get to experience one of the largest IT Outages in history, and it even impacted our recording of the show last week. Crowdstrike, a popular EDR solution caused major disruption to the worlds IT systems with an errant update to their software that caused servers to BSOD, disrupting travel (airplanes, trains, etc), governments, news organizations and more. Crowdstrike removed the errant file quickly, but still the damage was done with tons of systems requiring manual intervention to be recovered. The fix required booting into safe mode, and removing a file from the crowdstrike directory. This was all complicated by bitlocker and lack of local admin rights for many end user devices. Sometimes doing up to 15 reboots would bring the server back to life. Swinging the hard drives from one broken server to a working server manually removes the files and puts them back. The issue also caused a large-scale outage in the Azure Central region. In addition to services on AWS being impacted that run Windows (Amazon is a well-known large Crowdstrike customer) Crowdstrike CEO Goerge Kurtz (who happened to be the CTO at Mcafee during the 2010 Update Fiasco that impacted Mcafee clients globally) stated that he was deeply sorry and vowed to make sure every customer is fully recovered. By the time of this recording, most clients should be mostly fixed and recovered, and we are all anxiously waiting to hear how this could have happened. 04:50 Justin – “It’s really an Achilles heel of the cloud. I mean, to fix this, you need to be able to boot a server into safe mode or into recovery mode and then remove this file manually, which requires that you have console access, which, you know, Amazon just added a couple of years ago.” 07:45 Matthew – “It’s always fun when you’re like, okay, everyone si…

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268: Long Time Show Host is CloudPod’s first Casualty to AI (For This Week, at Least) 49:12

45 weeks ago49:12