• 285: 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC

  • Dec 27 2024
  • Length: 58 mins
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285: 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC

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  • Welcome to episode 285 of the Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Podcast, formerly known as The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! We’ve got a lot of news this week, including the last of our coverage from re:Invent, ChatGTP Pro, FPGA, and even some major staffing turnovers.

    Titles we almost went with this week:
    • Throw $200 dollars in a fire with ChatGPT Pro
    • Jeff Barr is wrapped up by Agentic AI
    • The Tribble with Trilliums
    • The Wind in the Quantum Willows
    • Rise of the dead instances FPGA and PowerPC
    • Jeff Barr is replaced by Nova
    • The Cloud Pod: Return of the dead instances types
    • After 6 year Jeff Barr hands over the reigns to the CloudPod
    • For our 6th birthday Jeff barr Retires
    • For our 6th birthday jeff barr delegates announcements to the cloud pod
    • 6 years of meaningless PR drivel
    • 6 years of cloud news and we still don’t know what Quantum computing is
    A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. General News

    HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY!

    2:00 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Security Lifecycle Management with AWS

    • Hashi is a big sponsor of re:Invent, so of course they had some news of their own to release.
    • HCP Vault Secrets auto-rotation is now generally available.
    • Dynamic secrets are generally available via HCP Vault Secrets.
    • Secrets sync will help keep your secrets synced with AWS Secrets Manager. It still appears to be one direction, but you can now also view secrets in AWS Secrets Manager that are managed by vault.
    • HCP Vault Radar, now in beta, automates the detection and identification of unmanaged secrets in your code, including AWS infrastructure configurations

    03:10 Matthew – “This qualifies under the category of things that I feel like we talked about so long ago, I just already assumed was GA. I’m surprised that it wasn’t.”

    03:34 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Infrastructure Lifecycle Management with AWS

    • Terraform AWS provider is now at 3 billion downloads.
    • The AWS Cloud Control Provider is also now generally available with the 1.0 release.
    • This is the provider built around AWS Cloud Control API to bring new services to Hashicorp Terraform faster.
    • In June, AWS and Hashi partnered to
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