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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Microsoft Publisher is officially headed for retirement, and Justin is taking the news remarkably well. Pour one out for the clip art, questionable newsletters, and every church bulletin ever created. #RIP #TheCloudPod #Publisher […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

AWS has introduced an AI agent that reviews your cloud architecture, spots mistakes, and suggests fixes. Finally, you can have your infrastructure judged automatically instead of waiting for Ryan to do it. #TheCloudPod #AWS #AIAgents […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hot take from #374: Anthropic's Claude watermark isn't hidden metadata or invisible text — it's baked into word-choice randomness itself (think "overcast" vs "grey"), using a key-derived pseudorandom function nobody can see without the keyholder's detector. Clever […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Justin’s gone, Ryan and Matt “cut stories,” and The Cloud Pod still runs over an hour. Outstanding restraint. The good news is you won’t miss out on any important news. Also, Matt rolled back to his old outro. Someone ask Bolt to track that as a “follow-up.” Episode […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

62 gas generators. No permits. A $1.1 million fine. This week on the pod, Ryan and Matt discuss the fallout and whether that's simply a “cost of doing business” or an actual fine for bad behavior (hint: it’s def not the second one). #DataCenters #TheCloudPod […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Has Justin already taken advantage of yet ANOTHER new feature released this week? You bet your bottom he has. AWS finally delivers new T8i burstable instances, and we’ve already moved Bolt over. Let’s hope the other guys don’t hog the capacity. #TheCloudPod […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Claude Code now makes shareable artifacts that update as you work. Justin’s already using them, and the reviews are positive. Join the conversation about this welcome update on episode 373 of The Cloud Pod. #TheCloudPod #podcast #ClaudeCode […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Google is exploring a data center in Ryan’s neck of the woods in New Mexico. In an attempt to get ahead of all the negative publicity, Google says it’ll cover the related infrastructure costs, including smart water use and actually paying for its own electricity. What […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

A BGP hijack plus unsigned software updates turned into a 33-hour security disaster. This week’s lesson: if your update process runs on “trust me, bro,” Ryan would like a word. #Cybersecurity #BGP #TheCloudPod www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/371-mrb…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has reached a “Critical” cybersecurity rating and can tackle longer, more complex workflows. Great news for enterprise AI, but maybe less exciting for those familiar with science fiction. #Astra #OpenAI #ImNotSayingItsSkynetBut #TheCloudPod […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

New episode alert! ☁️ The Cloud Pod #370 is live: Ryan paused his napping schedule to join Justin for the details on the Hugging Face/OpenAI incident report, Nvidia's rumored $13B bid for Hugging Face, a federal judge striking down the Anthropic "woke AI" ban, and […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Anthropic and the Feds are still going at it, although this time the news is much better for Anthropic. But will the feds comply? Let’s ask the Magic 8 Ball: “Outlook not so good.” Let’s chat about it. Episode 370 of The Cloud Pod, available now. #TheCloudPod […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Question for the community: is a $13B Hugging Face valuation justified, or is AI infra hype outrunning reality? And does EC2 hitting 20 years old make you feel old too? 🎂 Drop your takes and give episode #369 a listen — Vegas Local Zones, Cloudflare's OAuth trim-down […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Hot take from Justin on GitHub's outage postmortem: "Maybe we need to rethink some core fundamentals of how Git works. Git was designed for humans... around human speed and human scale." With commit volume nearly doubling since April (1.4B to 2.9B), is patching […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

EC2 turns 20 this year! It started with one instance type in one region. Today? 1,200+ instance types across 39 regions, plus specialized hardware for AI and HPC. So happy birthday, EC2. You’re making us feel really old. #EC2 #TheCloudPod #NewEpisode #Birthday #Amazon […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

We’re still talking about GitHub's latest round of outages, and why the follow-up sort of stinks. Episode 369 of The Cloud Pod digs into what actually happened and what GitHub is doing to prevent the next capacity crisis, so listen today and join the conversation […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Where were you when GitHub went down? 👀 We're talking Actions failures, Copilot outages, and the retry storms that made it worse — plus Claude's new self-hosted sandboxes and AWS's IAM-reading Terraform autopilot. Were you personally affected by the outage? Drop your […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Hot take from the GitHub outage postmortem: VS Code's retry behavior actually amplified Copilot token traffic during the incident, making recovery harder. Autoscaling and CI/CD tooling can turn a bad day into a cascading failure. Worth remembering next time your […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Apparently “AI can buy things with sort of fake money” is the next logical step from “AI can write all my code.” I mean, what can go wrong? The banks are totally in, right? AgentCore payments are now generally available, and we have thoughts. #TheCloudPod #stablecoin […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

For you kid’s book authors out there, we’d like to present an idea: GitHub and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Is it copyright infringement? Maybe. Is it also accurate? Yes. Join us for episode 368 of The Cloud Pod while we discuss GitHub’s worldwide […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Hot take from #367: humans get worse at spotting danger the longer a coding session runs (17% down to 5% after 50+ prompts), but Claude's auto mode classifier stayed steady. Ryan's take: "Anthropic has their own issues, so you can just blame them every time." The […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

New episode! The Cloud Pod #367 is live 🎙️ Justin, Ryan, and Matthew dig into Anthropic's new inference hooks for inline DLP across Claude Enterprise, auto mode becoming the default in Claude Code (with some wild stats on human vs classifier detection rates), AWS […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Quick poll for our cloud fam 🤔 With AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud ALL posting accelerating growth this quarter (37%, 43%, and 82% respectively), which provider do you think is making the smartest AI infrastructure bets right now? Debate with us in ep 366, then tell us […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Hot take from ep 366: cloud growth isn't slowing down capex, it's accelerating it. AWS capex up 68% to $54.21B, Azure up 69% to $41B — and Amazon's CFO is now stretching data center useful life from 15 to 25 years just to make the math work. The real story isn't […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Have you ever had a bonus 1.8 million show up unexpectedly on a bill? We haven’t… but it turns out Amazon has, thanks to AI agents, which - while very powerful - can also be very expensive. Who knew? www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

This week: AI agents, security chaos, MCP changes, North Korean hackers, cloud earnings, and one VERY expensive Amazon coding “experiment.” Episode 366 of The Cloud Pod is available now! www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

432 CVEs in two days, a $230 keypad nobody asked for, and AI models allegedly hacking Hugging Face on their own — ep #365 has a lot to unpack. Question for our fellow sysadmins: is your patch pipeline actually built to triage kernel CVEs by risk, or is it drowning in […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Hot take from ep #365: the Linux kernel team's 432-CVEs-in-two-days move isn't a glitch, it's policy now. Justin's read: "Everyone is doing a lot of patching these days." The real issue isn't volume, it's that scanners and compliance tools can't tell a critical flaw […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

OpenAI dropped a $230 keyboard. Yes, we talked about it last week. But *this* week we’re just grateful we weren’t the only ones making fun of it. #TheCloudPod #Keyboard #noveltytech www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/365-lin…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

432 Linux CVEs in TWO DAYS?! We have lots of questions about keeping up with that many security alerts, but our resident security expert, Ryan, is gone this week, trying out his hand at being in an Eagles tribute band, so it’s up to Justin, Matt, and Jonathan to break down all the drama. Episode […]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Kimi K3 is aiming for the moon…but AWS billing beat them there. Justin and Matt discuss Moonshot AI’s newest model, and, spoiler alert, they’re really looking forward to it. What does this much more economical option mean for enterprise AI? Join the convo today! […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Everyone waking up on Friday morning: AWS: Here’s your bill for 2.5 million dollars. Have fun with those overdraft fees! #episode364 #TheCloudPod #AWS #Billingerrors www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/364-aws…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

SQS just turned 20 🎉 — two decades of messages patiently waiting in line while the internet built entire architectures on top of it. What's your favorite (or most cursed) SQS use case? Ever built something with it you probably shouldn't have? Drop your queue stories […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Happy birthday to Amazon SQS! 20 years later, it's still quietly moving messages around the cloud while the rest of us take the credit. Justin, Matt, and Ryan celebrate two decades of one of AWS's true MVPs on this week's #TheCloudPod. #AWS #SQS #CloudComputing […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

AI coding agents are creating a whole new infrastructure problem. Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke thinks the answer is a distributed Git network built specifically for AI, and investors just backed it with a $60M seed round - which is pretty impressive when you don’t […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Ctrl+Z has reached Kubernetes, and that’s really good news for some folks! AWS now lets you roll back EKS version upgrades because regret should never be part of your deployment strategy. #TheCloudPod #Kubernetes #TheCloudPod #EKS www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mec…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod […]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@jerry if you are looking for a co-host I’m available. :)

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

AWS finally shipped an ACME product that doesn't involve anvils or cartoon coyotes: ACM now supports ACME for automated cert management, because manually renewing certs every few weeks sounds like it might just be Ryan’s villain origin story. #TheCloudPod #ACME #AWS […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

OpenAI has Sol, Anthropic has Sonnet 5, and EVERYONE has an announcement that they work with those models. On top of that, Mythos just got the green light, but for only a select few. Everything is fine, right? Nothing to see here. #TheCloudPod #OpenAI #Anthropic #Sol […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

If you’re like Justin and thought S3 has all the features it could possibly have, then hold on to your butts - because we’ve got even more for you! Tune in this week to hear all about them. #TheCloudPod #Episode360 #S3 #AWS www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/360-and…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

AI is getting smarter, bu our cloud bills are getting smarter too (at finding new ways to surprise us.) This week we discuss the rise of #Tokenomics, AI cost tracking, and why FinOps is changing the literal name of the game. #FinOps #TheCloudPod #AI […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

My cohost @mkohn was complaining about how useless Slack release notes are, and I have to agree that, in general, all app store release notes are useless. But your asking me to use my bandwidth to update the app, you should at least have the decency to let me know why. This isn't just a Slack […]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Have you hit an AI spend limit yet? 😅 Or do you think vibe-coded commits are actually sustainable at GitHub's current scale? The Cloud Pod ep 358 covers both — plus Anthropic's selective "slow down AI" stance. We want to hear your take! 🎧 […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

AWS introduced an AI-powered FinOps Agent, which, of course, means we now need Skynet to tell us what Skynet was spending the Skynet money on. So you’ll still be broke, but at least you’ll know why. #TheCloudPod #Episode358 #FinOps www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/358-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

GitHub processed 1 billion commits in 2025. Now it's handling 1.4 billion... PER MONTH. Crazy right? We break down GitHub's scaling battle and the AI-generated code tsunami on Episode 358 of The Cloud pod, available now. #TheCloudPod #GitHub #AI […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Are AI tools actually boosting YOUR team's productivity — or just your cloud bill? 🤔 Justin & Matt tackle this head-on in ep. 357, from "AI psychosis" among CEOs to ElastiCache finally getting durability. Real talk, no hype. Listen & share your experience in the […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Hot take from Justin on ep. 357: as AI cost governance matures, open models may quietly win the enterprise. When token bills rival payroll savings, CFOs start asking hard questions — and that's exactly where FinOps discipline and cheaper open-source alternatives gain […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in just 4 months. Microsoft quietly canceled most internal Claude Code licenses. The ROI case for broad AI deployment is getting harder to defend. Justin & Matt break down what this means for FinOps and where open […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.tcp.fm.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Is AI actually cheaper than human labor? Internal data from Microsoft (and a potentially massive budget blowout at Uber) suggest token costs at scale are becoming incredibly difficult to justify. Let’s chat about it! Episode 357 of The Cloud Pod, out now! #TheCloudPod […] [Original post on tcp.fm]

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