About this episode
Welcome to episode 331 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt, and Justin (for a little bit, anyway) are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. This week, we’re looking at our Ignite predictions (that side gig as internet psychics isn’t looking too good) undersea cables (our fave!), plus datacenters and more. Plus Claude and Azure make a 30 billion dollar deal! Take a break from turkey and avoiding politics, and let’s take a trip into the clouds!
Titles we almost went with this week
GPT-5.1 Gets a Shell Tool Because Apparently We Haven’t Learned Anything From Sci-Fi Movies
The Great Ingress Egress: NGINX Controller Waves Goodbye After Years of Volunteer Burnout
Queue the Applause: Lambda SQS Mapping Gets a Serious Speed Boost
SELECT * FROM future WHERE SQL meets AI without the prompt drama
MFA or GTFO: Microsoft’s 99.6% Phishing-Resistant Authentication Achievement
JWT Another Thing ALB Can Do: OAuth Validation Moves to the Load Balancer
Google’s Emerging Threats Center: Because Manually Checking 12 Months of Logs Sounds Terrible
EventBridge Gets a Drag-and-Drop Makeover: No More Schema Drama
Permission Denied: How Granting Access Took Down the Internet
Follow Up
00:51 Ignite Predictions – The Results
Matt (Who is in charge of sound effects, so be aware)
ACM Competitor – True SSL competitive product
AI announcement in Security AI Agent (Copilot for Sentinel) – sort of (½)
Azure DevOps Announcement
Justin
New Cobalt and Mai Gen 2 or similar – Check
Price Reduction on OpenAI & Significant Prompt Caching
Microsoft Foundational LLM to compete with OpenAI –
Jonathan
The general availability of new, smaller, and more power-efficient Azure Local hardware form factors
