Welcome to episode 289 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are here this week to bring you a riveting podcast on EU regulations! Are you asleep yet? No? Ok great. We promise it will be a good show – despite the title.

Titles we almost went with this week:

Stargate: We’re not saying its Aliens, but its $500 Billion
AWS: Now with extra sessions
EC2 Flex: Bigger, Badder and Probably still expensive
SNS FIFO: So fast, it’ll give you whiplash
Azure: Now with added Legalese (Thanks, EU)
OpenAI’s Stargate: From Chatbots to Interdimensional Travel (maybe)
GCP’s Biochar Initiative: Turning Waste into… Well, Less Waste (hopefully)
AWS Console Multiple Sessions: So you can prove you dropped those databases from multiple accounts
Amazon still adds new features to SNS and the cloud pod is impressed
AWS tries to kill chrome profiles

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AI IS Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money

01:47 Announcing The Stargate Project

Open AI announced a joint investment of $500 billion dollars over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US, with the intent to deploy $100B immediately.
This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.
The initial equity funders in stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.
Softbank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with Softbank having financial responsibility, and OpenAI having operational responsibility.
Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners.
The buildout is currently underway starting in Texas, and they are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as they finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016, and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional computer to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
“All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity.” This quote TOTALLY didn’t terrify us…
Our conversations back in December about OpenAI trying to figure out their ownership model makes a lot more sense now.

07:22 Justin – “…it’s interesting that SoftBank is investing so much money into it considering, you know, the trade issues with China and SoftBank, you know, being mostly Chinese owned and invested in. Yeah. It’s one of the things about SoftBank that’s interesting as well as I didn’t think their funds had done that well after crypto kind of blew up on them in pretty spectacular ways, although it’s back apparently. So yeah, it’s interesting, you know, post inauguration day.”

AWS

06:11 The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts

AWS is announcing multi-session support, which enables AWS customers to access multiple AWS accounts simultaneously in the AWS Console.
You can sign in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser
This can be a combination of root, IAM or federated roles in different accounts or the same account.
WOW! This is a huge improvement and we’re REALLY excited about this.
Tab junkies, rejoice!

07:05 Ryan – “This is the biggest thing they’ve ever announced ever.”

15:27 Introducing new larger sizes on Amazon EC2 Flex instances

AWS announced the general availability of two new larger size (12xlarge and 16xlarge) EC2 Flex instances (c7i and m7i variants)
This new size expands the EC2 flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale up existing workloads or run larger-sized applications that need extra memory.
These instances are powered by custom 4th gen Intel Xeon scalable processors, only available on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based intel processors.

17:08 Ryan – “It’s the way that you had to provision memory and CPU and the relationship between the chosen Amazon was the instance type. And now I think if you select this instance type, you can tune those specifically and do a little bit of shaping.”

17:59 AWS CodeBuild now supports test splitting and parallelism

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289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations