Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow.
This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!
Titles we almost went with this week:
(Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.)
- FSx and the City: When File Systems Meet Object Storage
- The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required
- OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home
- Kernel Sanders: Microsoft’s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System
- Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software
- Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors
- Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown
- Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse
- The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said “It’s Not You, It’s Your Access Level”
- Google’s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain
- The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google’s 10th Annual Carbon Confession
- Watts Up Doc? Google’s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve
- Terminal Velocity: Google’s AI Gets a Command Performance
- Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google’s New CLI Companion
- The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal
- AI See What You Did There: Google’s New Compliance Framework
- Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing
- The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks
- Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You
- Google’s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included)
- Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage
- Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It’s Been Missing
- VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management
- Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code
- The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud
- Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way)
- Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade
- Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly
- WAF’s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall
- The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security
- WAF and Peace: Microsoft’s Treaty Between Security Tools
- Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management
- Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side
- Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard
- IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management
- No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS’s Address Game
- Azure’s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses
- Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI
- DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually
- The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read
- Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions
Follow Up
00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe – Ars Technica
- Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing catastrophic system-wide failures like the CrowdStrike incident that g...
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - Azure 1.3
- (00:00:54) - Microsoft Is Changing Windows to Prevent the Next Crisis
- (00:04:07) - Cloudflare: Pay Per Crawl
- (00:08:36) - Terraform Provider for OpenAI
- (00:14:01) - Amazon FSX for OpenZFS: Integrating with S3
- (00:20:29) - Amazon EC2 C8GN Nitro Card Instances
- (00:25:13) - DynamoDB now supports Multi Region Strongly Consistent
- (00:30:11) - Google's 2025 Environmental Report
- (00:35:07) - Google Announces Gemini CLI as an AI Agent
- (00:39:47) - Google Cloud: Introducing recommended AI Controls Framework
- (00:46:03) - Azure Monitor + Prometheus Metrics Integration in VS Code
- (00:52:45) - Microsoft Logic Apps: Public Preview (Security Copilot)
- (01:01:38) - Azure Front Door: Managed Certificate for Wildcard Domains
- (01:04:50) - Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Feature
