Welcome to episode 262 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to get through! We look at updates to .NET and Kubernetes, the future of email, new instances that promise to cause economic woes, and – hold onto your butts – a new deep sea cable! Let’s get started!

• What is a vagrant when you move it into your cloud
• I only Aspire not to use/support .NET
• AI Is the Gateway drug to Cloudflare
• Let me tell you about the future with MAIL ROUTING
• AWS invents impressive ways to burn money with the U7i instances
• Google Only wishes they could delete our podcast with an expiring subscription
• AKS Automatic — impressive new attack weapon or an impressive way to make Ops Cry?

00:53 Vagrant Cloud is moving to HCP

• What sort of feels like a “if you care about it, get it moved into HCP before the IBM acquisition is done” Vagrant Cloud is being migrated to the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) under the new name of HCP Vagrant Registry.
• All existing users of Vagrant Cloud are now able to migrate their Vagrant Boxes to HCP.
• Vagrant isn’t changing; HCP provides a fully managed platform to make using Vagrant easier.
  • An improved box search experience
  • A refreshed Vagrant Cloud UI
  • No Fee for private boxes
• Users who migrate can register for free with the same email address as their existing Vagrant cloud account.
• Want to review the migration guide? You can find it here.

01:53 Justin – “I really think Vagrant would be a key pillar of the IBM future strategy for HashiCorp? Nope, I sure did not. I mean, I figured they’d probably just keep it open source and people would keep developing on it, but I didn’t really expect much. So, you know, to at least get this and an improved search experience is kind of nice because the old Vagrant cloud website, it was definitely a little stale. So I can have improved search and a new UI is always nice.”

02:43 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML Observability to the AI Data Cloud

• Snowflake is announcing the acquisition of TrueEra AI Observability.
• This complementation investment will allow them to provide even deeper functionality that will help organi