296: Google Forces AI Protection

296: Google Forces AI Protection

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News March 21, 2025 Duration: 59:26

Welcome to episode 296 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today is a twofer – Justin and Ryan are in the house to make sure you don’t miss out on any of today’s important cloud and AI news. From AI Protection, to Google Next, to Amazon Q Developer, we’ve got it all, this week on TCP! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • Amazon Step Functions, walks step by step into my IDE
  • Deepseek seeks the truth of “is it serverless or servers”? 
  • Well Architected Reviews by AI… What will my solutions architects do now? 
  • The cloud pod hosts steps over the Azure EU Data Boundary
  • BYOIP to ALBs… only years too late for everyone.

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General News 

01:02 HashiCorp and Red Hat, better together 

  • Hashicorp has more details on its future, with the recent IBM acquisition in this blog post. 
  • They talk about the wide range of Day 2 operations, including things like drift detection, image management and patching, rightsizing, and configuration management.  
  • As Red Hat Ansible is a purpose built operational management platform, it makes it easier to properly configure resources after the initial creation, but also to evolve the configuration after setup, and then execute ad-hoc playbooks to keep things running reliably and more securely at scale. 
  • Some additional things they’re exploring, now that the acquisition has closed:
    • Red Hat Ansible Inventory generated dynamically by Terraform
    • Official Terraform modules for Redhat Ansible, making it easier to trigger terraform from Ansible Playbooks.
    • Redhat and Hashicorp officially support the Red Hat Ansible Provider for Terraform, making it easier to trigger Ansible from Terraform.
    • Evolving Terraform provisioners to support a more comprehensive set of lifecycle integrations.
    • Improved mechanisms to invoke Ansible Playbooks outside of the resource provisioning lifecycle
  • Customers – not surprisingly – regularly integrate Vault and Openshift, and they have identified dozens of connection points that can add value, including:

01:48 Justin – “That’s a lot of promise for Ansible there, that I’m not sure it completely lives up to…”

07:09


Every week, the team behind The Cloud Pod gathers to sift through the constant stream of announcements from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Hosts Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn bring their combined expertise to the table, translating complex platform updates and new service launches into practical insights. This isn't just a headline recap; it's a detailed analysis meant for engineers, architects, and tech leaders who need to understand the "why" and "how" behind the news. You'll hear them debate the real-world implications of the latest AI tooling, unpack FinOps strategies for managing costs, and track the evolving competitive landscape between the major providers. The conversation is grounded in years of hands-on experience, offering a perspective that goes beyond the press releases. Tuning into this weekly podcast provides a consistent, informed checkpoint for anyone whose work depends on the cloud. It’s a direct line to understanding the innovations and shifts that are actively reshaping how businesses build and scale technology, all from one of the most enduring voices in the space.
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