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309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL

309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL

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 Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we’re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google’s little hiccup, and updates to SQL – plus so much more! Thanks for joining us. Titles we almost went with this week: KV Phone Home: When Your Key-Value Store Goes AWOLWhen Your Coreless Service Finds Its Core ProblemOracle’s Vanity Fair: Pretty URLs for Pretty PennyFrom Warehouse to Lakehouse: Your Free Ticket to Cloud Town1⃣Databricks Uno: Because One is the Loneliest NumberFree as in Beer, Smart as in Data ScienceCedar Analysis: Because Your Authorization Policies Wood Never LieCedar Analysis: Teaching Old Policies New ProofsAmazon Q Finally Learns to Talk to Other AppsTomorrow: Visual Studio’s Predictive Edit RevolutionThe Ghost of Edits Future: AI Haunts Your Code Before You Write ItIAM What IAM: Google’s Identity Crisis Breaks the InternetPermission Denied: The Day Google Forgot Who Everyone Was403 Forbidden: When Google’s Bouncer Called in SickAWS Brings the Heat to Fusion ResearchLarry’s Cloud Nine: Oracle Stock Soars on Forecast RaiseOCI You Later: Oracle Bets Big on Cloud GrowthOracle’s Crystal Ball Shows 40% Cloud Growth AheadMeta Scales Up Its AI Ambitions with $14 Billion InvestmentFrom FAIR to Scale: Meta’s $14 Billion AI MakeoverCongratulations Databricks one, you are now the new low code solution. AWS burns power to figure out how power works AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 02:12 Zuckerberg makes Meta’s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang joining to lead a new AI research lab at Meta. This follows similar moves by Google and Microsoft acquiring AI talent through investments rather than direct acquisitions to avoid regulatory scrutiny.Scale AI specializes in data labeling and annotation services critical for training AI models, serving major clients including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. The company’s expertise covers approximately 70% of all AI models being built, providing Meta with valuable intelligence on competitor approaches to model development.The deal reflects Meta’s struggles with its Llama AI models, particularly the underwhelming reception of Llama 4 and delays in releasing the more powerful “Behemoth” model due to concerns about competitiveness with OpenAI and DeepSeek. Meta recently reorganized its GenAI unit into two divisions following these setbacks.Wang brings both technical AI expertise and business acumen, having built Scale AI from a 2016 startup to a $14 billion valuation. His experience includes defense contracts and the recent Defense Llama collaboration with Meta for national security applications.For cloud providers and dev... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 309(00:01:16) - Meta Completes $14 Million Investment in Scale AI(00:06:34) - Databricks Free Edition, SQL Migration and More(00:09:28) - WAF and Q&D: Cloud Computing(00:17:52) - AWS Power Tools for AWS Lambda(00:22:39) - Google IAM System Failure Causes widespread Outage(00:27:00) - Cloudflare Outage Highlights Storage Provider's Failure(00:31:14) - Google's Credential Scanner for Open Source(00:33:45) - Google Cloud Location Finder: Single API for Cloud Regions(00:35:33) - Google Cloud G4VMS and G4S: New Inst(00:37:23) - Microsoft Cross Tenant Customer Managed Keys for SSD v2 &(00:39:48) - Microsoft Cloud: Azure Cost Management, Next Edit suggestions in Visual Studio(00:43:41) - Oracle's Cloud Services: Growing 16%(00:46:53) - Oracle to Offer AMD Instinct GPUs on OCI(00:48:03) - Oracle Allows Custom Domains for Autonomous Database(00:50:01) - Cloud: Episode 1
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