Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance

Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including – you guessed it – more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We’ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance – el -jb Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven – mk Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration – el GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet – mk, el Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google’s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes I’m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon’s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated The Root Cause They’ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA Google’s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency Follow Up  04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger – here’s what happened | ZDNET  Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.  The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others.