About this episode
Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We’ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you!
Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Git Happens: Why Your Database Pipeline Keeps Breaking
PostgreSQL and Chill: Azure’s New Storage Options for Database Romance
NVMe, Myself, and PostgreSQL
Canvas and Effect: AWS Paints a New Picture for E-commerce
Oracle’s $30 Billion Stargate: The AI Infrastructure Wars Begin
Larry’s Last Laugh: Oracle Lands OpenAI’s Mega Deal
AI Will See You Now (Couch Not Included)
Purview and Present Danger: Microsoft’s AI Security SDK Goes Live
The Purview from Up Here: Microsoft’s Bird’s Eye View on AI Data Security
Building Bridges: Azure’s Two-Way Street to Active Directory
Domain Names: Not Just for Browsers Anymore
FUSE or Lose: Azure’s BlobNFS Gets a Speed Boost
When Larry Met Andy: An Exadata Love Story
Bing There, Done That: Azure’s New Research Assistant
The Search is Over: Azure AI Foundry Finds Its Research Groove
Memory Lane: Where AI Agents Go to Remember Things
Elephants Never Forget, and Now Neither Do Google’s Agents
Z3 or Not Z3: That is the Storage Question
Local SSD Hero: A New Hope for I/O Intensive Workloads
Azure’s Certificate of Insecurity
KeyVault’s Keys Left Under the Doormat
When Your Cloud Provider Accidentally CCs the Hackers
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
03:09 RYAN DOES A THING FOR SECURING AI WORKLOADS
Ryan was recently invited to Google’s Headquarters in San Francisco as part of a small group of security professionals where they spent time hands-on with Google security offerings, learning how to secure AI workloads.
AI – and how to secure it – is a hot topic right now, and being able to spend time working with the Google development team was really insightful, with how they work with various levels of protections in place in dummy applications.
Ryan was especially interested in the back-end logic that was executed in the applications.
05:32 Ryan – “I was impressed because there’s how we’re thinking about AI is still evolving, and how we’re protecting it’s gonna be changing rapidly, and having real-world examples really helped really flesh out how their AI services are, how they’re integrated into a security ecosystem. It was pretty impressive. And it’s something that’s near and dear. I’ve been working and trying to roll out Google agent spaces and different AI workl
