304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!

304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News May 22, 2025 Duration: 1:16:54

Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates – plus an aftershow. Let’s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • Open AI gets a COO delivered
  • Things get Chile with new regions
  • Observability and AI, I Q-uestion the logic
  • Cloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictions
  • K8 resizes pods on the fly
  • Microsoft strongly reinforces the AI Foundry
  • The Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it 

Follow Up 

01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership 

  • We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it.
  • One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely. 
  • Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user’s privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace. 
  • We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud. 
  • Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ’s solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google’s solutions aren’t much better. 

AI – Or How ML Makes Money 

09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo 

OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role 

  • OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company. 
  • She was the CEO at

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