Welcome to episode 261 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to cover, including a slew of Azure and Oracle stories! This week the guys cover some new cost management strategies from FinOps, some Kubernetes updates, MS Build, and even fancy schmancy CoPilot PCs!

• Azure woke up and announced things
• AWS stops taking your IPv4 Money
• Well now everything has copilot

00:57 AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, set to launch by the end of 2025

• Amazon is sharing more details about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud roadmap so that customers and partners can start planning.
• The first AWS European Sovereign Cloud is planning to launch its first AWS Region in the state of Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025.
• Available to all AWS customers, this effort is backed by a 7.8B Euro investment in infrastructure, jobs and skills development.
• Customers will get the full power of the AWS architecture, expansive service portfolio and API’s that customers use today.
• Customers can start building applications in any existing Region and simply move them to AWS European Sovereign Cloud when the first region launches in 2025.
• And how exactly will they do that, you might be wondering? If you mean there will be an easy button that’s awesome… do it everywhere else.
• if you mean update Terraform and redeployed Screw you, Amazon.

03:23 Ryan – “Yeah. It just seems so anti what they’re trying to set up with the sovereign region to begin with, right? Like, I guess copying data is fine in, but not out. Like it’s sort of, it’s like GovCloud, right? It’s completely separate. So strange.”

05:06 Application Load Balancer launches IPv6-only support for Internet clients

• ALB’s now allow you to provision load balancers without IPV4 for clients that can connect using just IPv6. Woot.

05:25 Ryan – “So the trick is for internal, the reason why we’re starting to see this more and more is that because you can address these huge spaces in IPv6, they’re not doing the equivalent of RFC 1918 address space. So that’s why these things become super important because they’ll configure an internal sort of networking path that’s only IPv6, but then you can’t use like a managed load balancer or something like that because there’s no IP space.”

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