About this episode
Welcome to episode 327 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to bring you all the latest news (and a few rants) in the worlds of Cloud and AI. I’m sure all our readers are aware of the AWS outage last week, as it was in all the news everywhere. But we’ve also got some new AI models (including Sora in case you’re low on really crappy videos the youths might like), plus EKS, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, and more. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
Oracle and Azure Walk Into a Cloud Bar: Nobody Gets ETL’d
When DNS Goes Down, So Does Your Monday: AWS Takes Half the Internet on a Coffee Break
404 Cloud Not Found: AWS Proves Even the Internet’s Phone Book Can Get Lost
DNS: Definitely Not Staffed – How AWS Lost Its Way When It Lost Its People
When Larry Met Satya: A Cloud Love Story
Azure Finally Answers ‘Dude, Where’s My Data?’ with Storage Discovery
Breaking: Microsoft Discovers AI Training Uses More Power Than a Small Country
404 Engineers Not Found – AWS Learns the Hard Way That People Are Its Most Critical Infrastructure
Azure Storage Discovery: Finding Your Data Needles in the Cloud Haystack
EKS Auto Mode: Because Even Your Clusters Deserve Cruise Control
Azure Gets Reel: Microsoft Adds Video Generation to AI Foundry
The Great Token Heist: Vertex AI Steals 90% Off Your Gemini Bills
Cache Me If You Can: Vertex AI’s Token-Saving Feature
IaC Just Got a Manager – And It’s Not Your Boss
From Musk to Microsoft: Grok 4 Makes the Great Cloud Migration
No Harness.. You are not going to make IACM happen
Microsoft Drafts a Solution to Container Creation Chaos
PowerShell to the People: Azure Simplifies the Great Gateway Migration
IP There Yet? Azure’s Scripts Keep Your Address While You Upgrade
Follow Up
00:53 Glacier Deprecation Email
Standalone Amazon Glacier service (vault-based with separate APIs) will stop accepting new customers as of December 15, 2025.
S3 Glacier storage classes (Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, Deep
