320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack

320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News September 10, 2025 Duration: 55:42

Welcome to episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are coming to you from Justin’s echo chamber and bringing all the latest in AI and Cloud news, including updates to Google’s Anti-trust case, AWS Cost MCP, new regions, updates to EKS, Veo, and Claude, and more! Let’s get into it. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • Breaking Bad Bottlenecks: AWS  Cooks Up Faster Container Pulls
  • The Bucket List: Finding Your Lost Storage Dollars
  • State of Denial: Terraform Finally Stops Saving Your Passwords
  • Three Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and Launch
  • Ground Control to Major Cloud: Microsoft Launches Planetary Computer Pro
  • Veo Vidi Vici: Google Conquers Video Editing
  • Red Alert: AWS Makes Production Accounts Actually Look Dangerous
  • Amazon EKS Discovers the F5 Key 
  • Chaos Theory Meets ChatGPT: When Your Reliability Data Gets an AI Therapist
  • Breaking Bad (Services): How AI Helps You Find What’s Already   Broken
  • Breaking Up is Hard to Cloud: Gemini Moves Back In
  • Intel Inside Your Secrets: TDX Takes Over Google Cloud
  • Lord of the Regions: The Return of the Kiwi 
  • All Blacks and All Stacks: AWS Goes Full Kiwi
  • Azure Forecast: 100% Chance of Budget Alert Storms
  • Google Keeps Its Cloud Together: A $2.5T Near Miss
  • Shell We Dance? AWS Makes CLI Scripting Less Painful
  • AWS Finally Admits Nobody Remembers All Those CLI Commands
  • Cache Me If You Claude
  • Your AWS Console gets its Colors, just don’t choose red shirts
  • Amazon Q walks into a bar, Tells MCP to order it a beer.. The Bartender sighs and mutters “at least chatgpt just hallucinates its beer”
  • Ryan’s shitty scripts now as a AWS CLI Library

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General News

00:57 Google Dodges A 2.5t Breakup

  • We have breaking news – and it’s good news for Google. 
  • Google successfully avoided a potential $2.5 trillion breakup following antitrust proceedings, maintaining its current corporate structure despite regulatory pressure.
  • The decision represents a significant outcome for Big Tech antitrust cases, potentially setting a precedent for how regulators approach market dominance issues in the cloud and technology sectors.
  • Cloud customers and partners can expect business continuity with Google Cloud Platform services, avoiding potential disruptions that could have resulted from a corporate restructuring.
  • The ruling may influence how other major cloud providers structure their businesses and approach regulatory compliance, particularly around bundling services and market competition.
  • Enterprise customers relying on Google’s integrated ecosystem of cloud, advertising, and productivity tools can continue their current architectures without concerns about service separation.
  • You just KNOW Microsoft is super mad about this. 

AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 

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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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