Welcome to episode 275 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are awake and ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud news, including SQream, a new partnership between OCI and AWS (yes, really) Azure Linux, and a lot of updates over at AWS. Get comfy and we’ll see you all in the cloud!

• I SQream, You SQream, The CloudPod SQreams for AI Ice Cream
• AWS East gets Stability, but only for AI.
• AWS has some Lofty Goals
• Claude Learns BigQuery
• Azure now Securely Checks the Prompts from the cloud pod
• Azure find out about Linux

00:28 Stability AI’s best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock

• If you are like The CloudPod hosts, the part you care most about AI is the rapid ability to create graphics for any meme-worthy moment or funny pictures for that group chat.
• Luckily AWS has access to the latest image generation capability with 3 models from Stability AI.
  • Stable Image Ultra – Produces the highest quality, photorealistic outputs perfect for professional print media and large format applications. Stable image Ultra excels at rendering exceptional detail and realism.
  • Stable diffusion 3 large – strikes a balance between generation speed and output quality. Ideal for creating high-volume, high-quality digital assets for websites, newsletters and marketing materials.
  • Stable Image Core – Optimized for fast and affordable image generation, great for rapidly iterating on concepts during ideation.

• One of the key improvements of Stable Image Ultra and Stable Diffusion 3 large compared to Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) is text quality in generated images, with fewer errors in spelling and typography thanks to innovation diffusion transformer architecture, which implements two separate sets of weights for image and text but enables information flow between the two modalities.

02:46 Justin – “I do notice more and more that, you get it, you get the typical product shot on Amazon, but then like they’ll insert the product into different backgrounds and scenes. Like, it’s a, it’s a lamp and all of a sudden it’s on a thing and they’re like, Hmm, that doesn’t look like a real photo though. It looks like AI. So you do notice it more and more.”

04:13 AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout

• We see you Amazon – trying to get two press releases for basically the same thing, not today sir!
  • Both the AWS Network Load Balancer and Gateway Load Balancer have received a configurable TCP Idle timeout.
• AWS Network load balancer had a fixed value of 350 seconds, which coul

Welcome to episode 274 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we explore the world of SnapShots, Maia, Open Source, and VMware – just to name a few of the topics. And stay tuned for an installment of our continuing Cloud Journey Series to explore ways to decrease tech debt, all this week on The Cloud Pod.

• The Cloud Pod in Parallel Cluster
• The Cloud Pod cringes at managing 1000 aws accounts
• The Cloud Pod welcomes Imagen 3 with less Wokeness
• The Cloud Pod wants to be instantly snapshotted
• The Cloud pod hates tech debt

00:32 Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again

• • Shay Banon is pleased to call ElasticSearch and Kibana “open source” again. He says everyone at Elastic is ecstatic to be open source again, it’s part of his and “Elastics DNA.”
  • They’re doing this by adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks.
  • They never stopped believing or behaving like an OSS company after they changed the license, but by being able to use the term open source and by using AGPL – an OSI approved license – removes any questions or fud people might have.
  • Shay says the change 3 years ago was because they had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing.
    • So, after trying all the other options, changing the license – all while knowing it would result in a fork with a different name – was the path they took.
  • While it was painful, they said it worked.
    • 3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their OpenSearch fork, the market confusion has mostly gone, and their partnership with AWS is stronger than ever.
    • They are even being named partner of the year with AWS.
  • They want to “make life of our users as simple as possible,” so if you’re ok with the ELv2 or the SSPL, then you can keep using that license. They aren’t removing anything, just giving you another option with AGPL.
  • He calls out trolls and people who will pick at this announcement, so they are attempting to address the trolls in advance.

• “Changing the license was a mistake, and Elastic now backtracks from it”. We removed a lot of market confusion when we changed our license 3 years ago. And because of our actions, a lot has changed. It’s an entirely different landscape now. We aren’t living in the past. We want to build a better future for our users. It’s because we took action then, that we are in a position to take action now.

• “AGPL is not true open source, license X is”: AGPL is an OSI approved license, and it’s a widely adopted one. For example, MongoDB used to be AGPL and Grafana is

Welcome to episode 273 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold onto your butts – this week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew and (eventually) Jonathan are bringing you two weeks worth of cloud and AI news. We’ve got Karpenter, Kubernetes, and Secrets, plus news from OpenAI, MFA changes that are going to be super fun for Matthew, and Azure Phi. Get comfy – it’s going to be a doozy!

• The Cloud Pod Teaches Azure-normalized Camel Casing
• The Cloud Pod Travels to Malaysia
• Azure Detaches Itself From its Own Scale Sets
• The Cloud Pod Conditionally Writes Show Notes
• You got MFA!
• The Cloud Pod Delays Deleting Itself
• The Cloud Pod is Now the Cloud Pod Podcast!

01:37 Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions

• Terraform is announcing the GA of Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0. The new version improves the extensibility and flexibility in the provider.
• Since the Providers’ Last major release in March 2022, Hashi has added support for some 340 resources and 120 data sources, bringing the total Azure resources to 1,101 resources and almost 360 data sources.
• The provider has topped 660M downloads, MS and Hashi continue to develop new, innovative integrations that further ease the cloud adoption journey to enterprise organizations.
• With Terraform 1.8, providers can implement custom functions that you can call from the Terraform configuration. The new provider adds two Azure-specific provider functions to let users correct the casing of their resource IDs or access the individual components of it.
• Previously, the Azure RM provider took an all-or-nothing approach to Azure resource provider registration, where the Terraform provider would either attempt to register a fixed set of 68 providers upon initialization or registration or be skipped.
• This didn’t match Microsoft’s recommendations, which are to register resource providers only as needed, and to enable the services you’re actively using.
• With adding two new feature flags, resource_provider_registrations and resource_providers_to_register, users now have more control over which providers to register automatically or whether to continue managing a subscription resources provider.
• AzureRM has removed a number of deprecated items, and it is recommended that you look at the removed resources/data sources and the 4.0 upgrade guide.

03:50 Justin – “Okay, so it