304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!

Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates – plus an aftershow. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: Open AI gets a COO deliveredThings get Chile with new regionsObservability and AI, I Q-uestion the logicCloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictionsK8 resizes pods on the flyMicrosoft strongly reinforces the AI FoundryThe Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it Follow Up 01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it.One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely. Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user’s privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace. We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud. Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ’s solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google’s solutions aren’t much better. AI – Or How ML Makes Money 09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company. She was the CEO at Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:02:05) - Google Lashes Out Over DOJ's Antitrust Proposal(00:06:19) - Does a Google Divested Chrome Affect the Internet?(00:09:17) - OpenAI Expands Leadership Team(00:10:22) - OpenAI's Nonprofit Status(00:11:34) - OpenAI Announces OpenAI for Countries and Data Residency for(00:13:58) - OpenAI in Tough Negotiations With Microsoft(00:16:48) - Terraform's AWS Provider Hits 4 Billion Downloads(00:17:41) - Amazon Terraform Provider 6.0 in Public Beta(00:23:14) - Amazon Launches New AWS Region in Chile(00:24:29) - Amazon Q Developer support to OpenSearch(00:27:04) - Kubernetes 1.33 Release Notes(00:31:23) - Does AWS have cloud commitment insurance?(00:33:25) - Google's Gecko Tool for Generative AI(00:35:54) - First Build Prediction: GitHub Copilot(00:37:04) - Microsoft's LLM for OpenAI(00:38:11) - Intel Announces New Quantum Computing Chip(00:39:17) - Third Choice: Microsoft Office PC Updates(00:40:30) - Top Three Office Products for 2020(00:42:07) - Google, Microsoft's AI Competitor(00:42:46) - The Number of Times Copilot Is Invited to Microsoft's Conference(00:46:15) - Microsoft Giving Virtual Data Center Tours(00:49:21) - Azure Storage Actions(00:52:15) - How many storage accounts can I have in a subscription?(00:54:46) - Azure Storage Actions(00:59:41) - "Oh, I can't handle that!"(01:00:14) - Red Hat Summit 2025 & Azure Migrate(01:02:57) - Azure AI: Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT(01:05:48) - Cloud Podcast: Week 3(01:06:40) - Linux Kernels to Drop 486 CPUs(01:09:29) - Can I Run Linux on a 486?(01:14:07) - AMD vs Intel: Which Is The Best?(01:16:21) - 486 compatibility in the Linux kernel