Welcome to episode 268 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin says he’s in India, but we know he’s really been replaced by Skynet. Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are here in his stead to bring all the latest cloud news, including PGO for optimization, a Linux vulnerability, CloudFront’s new managed policies, and even a frank discussion about whether or not the AI Hype train has officially left the station. Sit back and enjoy!

• OpenSSH sings “Oops I did it again”
• All aboard, the AI hype train is leaving the station
• Caching In on CloudFront’s New Managed Policies
• Get your Go Apps a personal trainer this summer with PGO
• Was Japan actually using floppy disks or were they 3.5
• Azure is on summer break
• Singapore will soon just be datacenters

00:56 Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

• Here’s a bit of tech nostalgia meets modernization for you!
• Japan’s government has finally phased out the use of floppy disks in all its systems.
• The Digital Agency has scrapped over 1,000 regulations related to their use, marking a significant step in their efforts to update government technology.
• Digital Minister Taro Kono, who’s been on a mission to modernize Japan’s government tech, announced this victory last week. It’s part of a larger push to digitize Japan’s notoriously paper-heavy bureaucracy, which became glaringly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Japan’s digitization efforts have hit some bumps along the way, including issues with a contact-tracing app and slow adoption of their digital ID system.
• It’s a reminder that modernizing legacy systems isn’t just about replacing old hardware – it’s a complex process that involves changing long-standing processes and especially mindsets.

02:36 Jonathan – “Yeah, I remember a couple of years ago they started talking about this modernization they were doing and people started to panic because Japan’s the largest purchaser of floppy disks anymore, or three and a half inch disks anyway. And so I ended up buying some because I’ve still got a USB floppy drive and some machines that have floppy disks. And I wanted just to stock up on some for the future, just in case the price went through the roof if Japan finally cut them and they have.”

05:16 regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server

• The Qualys Threat Research Unit just dropped a bombshell – they’ve discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH that affects millions of Linux systems.
• The vulnerability, dubbed “regreSSHion,” allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code as root on vulnerable systems.
  • Root access is the ultimate prize for hackers.

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house this week – Matthew, Jonathan, Ryan and Justin are all here to bring you the latest in cloud news – including FOCUS features in AWS Billing, Magic Quadrants, and AWS Metis. Plus, we have an Andoid vs. Apple showdown in the Aftershow, so be sure to stay tuned for that!

• Tech reports show Gartner leads in the BS quadrant
• Oracle adds cloud and legal expenses to their FinOps hub
• AWS Metis: Great chatbot, or Greek tragedy waiting to happen?
• The cloud pod rocks Cargo Pants
• A sonnet is written for FOCUSing on spend

01:40 Finops X

• Recently Justin attended FinOps in beautiful and sunny San Diego – and if you weren’t there, you really should plan on attending next year. This year’s topics included:
  • Focus 1.0
  • State of Vendors
• Conference size – they will most likely outgrow this particular conference center, seeing as how they’re either selling out or pretty close to it.
• Coolest thing about the conference – on stage all the biggies – TOGETHER.
  • It’s great to see them all together talking about how they’re making Finops better, and introducing new things for Finops and not just saving them for their own conferences.
• Next Year – Is Oracle going to be on stage next year?

08:22 Justin – “The shift left of FinOps was a big topic. You know, how do we get visibility? How do we show people what things are going to cost? How do we make sure that, you know, people are aware of what they’re doing? And so I think, you know, it’s just a recognition that is important and just as important as security is your cost. And in some ways security is part of your cost story. Because if you bankrupt your company, that’s a pretty bad security situation.”

10:17 Introducing Managed OpenSearch: Gain Control of Your Cloud with Powerful Log Analysis

• Listen. We don’t really *care* about OpenSearch – but the reality is it’s taking over the world. Nobody is doing ElasticSearch anymore.
• Digital Ocean is launching Managed OpenSearch offering, a comprehensive solution designed for in depth log analysis, simplifying troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance.
• With Digital ocean you can Pinpoint and analyze log data with ease, customize log retention, enhance security and can scale with your business and receive forwarded logs from multiple sources including Digital Ocean droplets, managed databases, etc.
• Interested in pricing? You can find that here. Or, if you’d like to take a product tour, you can do that here.

12:11 Ryan – “It’s the important ones where everything revolves around it and so no on

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matthew are with you this week, and even though it’s a light news week, you’re definitely going to want to stick around. We’re looking forward to FinOps, talking about updates to Consul, WIF coming to Vault 1.17, and giving an intro to Databricks LakeFlow. Because we needed another lake product. Be sure to stick around for this week’s Cloud Journey series too.

• The CloudPod lets the DataLake flow
• Amazon attempts an international incident in Taiwan
• What’s your Vector Mysql?

01:40 Consul 1.19 improves Kubernetes workflows, snapshot support, and Nomad integration

• Consul 1.19 is now generally available, improving the user experience, providing flexibility and enhancing integration points.
• Consul 1.19 introduces a new registration custom resource definition (CRD) that simplifies the process of registering external services into the mesh.
• Consul service mesh already supports routing to services outside of the mesh through terminating gateways. However, there are advantages to using the new Registration CRD.
• Consul snapshots can now be stored in multiple destinations, previously, you could only snapshot to a local path or to a remote object store destination but not both.
• Now you can take a snapshot of NFS Mounts, San attached Storage, or Object storage.
• Consul API gateways can now be deployed on Nomad, combined with transparent proxy and enterprise features like admin partitions

01:37 Matthew- “What I was surprised about, which I did not know, was that console API gateway can now be deployed on Nomad. Was it not able to be deployed before? Just feels weird… you know, consoles should be able to be deployed on nomad compared to that. You know, it’s all the same company, but sometimes team A doesn’t always talk to team B.”

03:21 Vault 1.17 brings WIF, EST support for PKI, and more

• Vault 1.17 is now generally available with new secure workflows, better performance and improved secrets management scalability.
• Key new features:
  • Workload Identify Federation (WIF) allows you to eliminate concerns around providing security credentials to vault plugins.
  • Using the new support for WIF< a trust relationship can be established between an external system and vault’s identity token provider to access the external system.
  • This enables secretless configuration for plugins that integrate with external systems such as AWS, Azure and GCP.