The Cloud Pod · 2026-06-03 · 47 min
Welcome to episode 356 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including the Pope coming out against AI, AWS introducing a new local zone, and GitHub having yet another crappy week. There’s a lot of news, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week Istanbul Not Constantinople, But Definitely an AWS Local Zone 218 Billion Parameters Walk Into a Single GPU Postgres Walks Into a DynamoDB Bar NSA Slides Into Anthropic’s DMs With 9 Billion Reasons Spy Agencies Want Claude But Can They Afford the Terms Pre-Shared Keys Were So Last Decade Azure When the Church and Anthropic Agree on AI Ethics Microsoft Finally Joins the Linux Party. It Crashed Iran Wants Cable Fees, and That’s No Phishing When the Church, the Spies, and Iran All Come for Big Tech I was gonna record a podcast until I got a migraine A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: There are many cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple.
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