Welcome to episode 302 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Ryan are on hand to bring you all the latest in Cloud (and AI news.) We’ve got hotpatching, Project Greenland, and a rollback of GPT-4.o, which sort of makes us sad – and our egos are definitely less stroked. Plus Saas, containers, and outposts – all of this and more. Thanks for joining us in the cloud!

• The Cloud Pod was never accused of being sycophantic
• 2nd Gen outposts!?! I didn’t even know anyone was using Gen 1
• AWS Outposts 2nd Gen… not with AI (GASP)
• If you’re doing SaaS wrong, Google & AWS have your back this week with new Features
• Patching, so hot right now
• Larger container sizes for Azure…. You don’t say
• AWS Green reporting detects hotspots… surprisingly close to Maryland…..
• Visual pipeline for Opensearch… I want to like this… but I just can’t

01:37 Sharing new DORA research for gen AI in software development

• The DORA team at Google has released a new report, “Impact of Generative AI In Software Development.” The report is based on data and developer interviews, and the report aims to move beyond hype to offer a proper perspective on AI’s impact on individuals, teams and organizations.
• Click on the link in our show notes to access the full report. However, Google has highlighted a few key points in the blog post.
• AI is Real – A staggering 89% of organizations are prioritizing the integration of AI into their applications, and 76% of technologists are already using AI in some part of their daily work.
• Productivity gains confirmed: Developers using Gen AI report significant increases in flow, productivity, and job satisfaction. For instance, a 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with a 2.1% increase in individual productivity.
• Organization benefits are tangible: Beyond individual gains, Dora found strong correlations between AI adoption and improvements in crucial organizational metrics. A 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with increases in document quality, code quality, code review speeds and approval speeds.
• If you are looking to utilize AI in your development organization, they provide five practical approaches for both leaders and practitioners.
  • Have transparent communications
  • Empower developers with learning and experimentation
  • Establish clear policies
  • Rethink performance metrics
  • Embrace fast feedback loops

045:06 Ryan – “Those are really good approaches, but really difficult to implement in practice. You know, in my day job, watching the company struggle to get a handle on AI from all the different angles you need to, from data protection, legal liability – just operationally – it’s very hard. So I think having a mature program where you’re rolling that out with intent and being very specific with your AI tasks I think will go a long way with a lot of companies.”

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• (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod
• (00:01:07) - How to Write a 300-Episode Recap With AI
• (00:03:05) - We're Turning 300 Episodes Down
• (00:07:39) - Reinventing: The Future of the Podcast
• (00:13:52) - Google Wins Antitrust Case vs. DOJ
• (00:21:18) - Google's Proposal for the Antitrust Case
• (00:24:29) - OpenAI Launches OpenAI03 and O4 Mini
• (00:30:27) - GPT 4.1 and 4.0 Mini
• (00:34:25) - GitHub Cloud and Copilot Announcements
• (00:35:37) - Copilot for Business vs. Personal: Should You Buy Pro+
• (00:38:50) - Amazon VPC Route Server
• (00:42:32) - AWS Security Reference Architecture Code Examples for Generative AI
• (00:45:08) - Amazon Nova Sonic: New Gen AI Model for Voice-enabled Applications
• (00:46:55) - Thank You or No Thank You?
• (00:47:40) - Novasonic's Nova Real 1.1 security video
• (00:51:03) - Amazon AWS S3 Express 1 Zone Price Cut
• (00:53:07) - AWS STS now automatically serves all requests to the global endpoint in
• (00:56:13) - Gemini Cloud Assist: Spring Cleaning with FinOps Hub
• (00:58:23) - Google's New VM Store for Valkey
• (00:59:36) - Microsoft releases new capabilities to Azure AI
• (01:01:15) - Azure Storage Driver Update & New Capabilities for AI
• (01:02:06) - Llama 4 models now available in Azure AI
• (01:03:31) - Microsoft Azure OpenAI: GPT 4.1, 4.
• (01:04:43) - Copilot in Azure Announces General Availability
• (01:06:41) - Azure Cloud's Hybrid Connection Manager in Public Preview
• (01:07:38) - One-Bit AI Models Won't Need Supercomputers
• (01:09:46) - Microsoft's SQL Server Migration to hyperscale
• (01:12:42) - Oracle: My Public Cloud Was Hacked
• (01:14:49) - Oracle's PR for the Hacking
• (01:18:20) - A Week in the Cloud
• (01:18:57) - Week in Cloud: Cloud Apps

Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week’s show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don’t despair – we’re not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google’s Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions?

• ☁️This is the CLOUDPOD Episode 300
• ️Tonight we dine in the Cloud
• The Next Chapter
• Now in Preview: Episode 300

Pre-Next

02:35 Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins

• There was a lot of Gemini news at Next – but we’ll get to all that.
• In this particular case, there’s an employee shakeup. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down from leading the Google team, and is being replaced by Josh Woodward, who is currently leading the Google Labs.

04:35 Filestore instance replication now available

• GCP says customers have been asking for help in meeting business and regulatory goals, and so they are releasing Filestore instance replication.
• This new feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec.

05:16 Multi-Cluster Orchestrator for cross-region Kubernetes workloads

• The public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator was recently announced.
• This lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments.
• The need for effective multi-cluster management has become essential as organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications; Challenges such as resource scarcity, ensuring high availability, and managing deployments across diverse environments create significant operational overhead.
• Multi-Cluster Orchestrator addresses these challenges by providing a centralized orchestration layer that abstracts away the complexities of underlying Kubernetes infrastructure matching workloads with capacity across regions....

• (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 300
• (00:00:38) - Ryan's Absence at CES 2017
• (00:01:53) - Episode 300
• (00:02:30) - Google Shuffles Up Their Gemini Team
• (00:05:08) - GKE: Multi Cluster Orchestrator for Kubernetes
• (00:09:37) - Google I/O 2019: The Conference Schedule
• (00:12:22) - The Wizard of Oz Event at Google's Sphere
• (00:15:01) - The Wizard of Oz Movie Made With AI
• (00:18:56) - The Wizard of Oz: The Sphere
• (00:20:24) - Day 1, keynote
• (00:20:49) - Google Cloud Next: The First Google TPU for Inference &
• (00:25:33) - Google Agent Spaces: Unified Enterprise Search and Intelligence
• (00:31:38) - Google's Video, Speech and Music, Generative AI
• (00:35:42) - Inferring with AWS' GKE
• (00:38:33) - Python's AI Agent Development Kit
• (00:43:13) - Agent to Agent
• (00:47:52) - Google Cloud Keynote
• (00:51:18) - A Day in the Life
• (00:51:38) - Gemini Cloud Conference 2018: Small Announcements
• (00:56:52) - Google Cloud Network: Cross-Cloud Interconnect
• (01:02:14) - Google Cloud Storage Pools: More Storage, More Intelligence
• (01:03:01) - Migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL using DMS
• (01:06:42) - Google Next: Predicting The Winners
• (01:09:08) - Microsoft's Ignite Conference Recap & More
• (01:13:04) - AI Conference Prediction
• (01:16:06) - Google Next: A Year 2 in Vegas
• (01:18:14) - Black Mirror: The First Season Review