323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine

Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow – and Matt obviously falling asleep on the job. Let’s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week

• When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft’s Close Call with Cloud Catastrophe
• Bedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba’s Models Join the AWS Party
• DeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in Bedrock
• GPUs of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do)
• Kubernetes Without the Kubernightmares
• Firestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language Edition
• Do What I Meant, Not What I Prompted
• Atlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer Experience
• Entra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost Was
• Oracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked For
• Wisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft’s Dairy State Datacenter 
• Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe)
• PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won’t Share Its TEEs
• Microsoft’s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PC
• Azure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow

AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 

00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course

• Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14. 
• This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment.
• The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs.
• This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention.
• The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google’s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems.
• The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale.
• Interested in registering? You can do that here. 

Cloud Tools 

03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B