Welcome to episode 339 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI announcements, including more personnel shifts (and it doesn’t seem like it was very friendly), a new way to get much needed copper, and Azure marketplace advertising 4,000 different models. What’s the real story? Let’s get into it and find out!

Titles we almost went with this week

US-EAST-1: Still the Least Reliable Friend You Keep Inviting to Parties **OpenAI
0⃣ From Zero to Inference: BigQuery Makes Open Models a Two-SQL Problem
AWS Goes Full Brandenburg Gate: Sovereign Cloud Opens for Business
Seven Ate Nine: AWS Skips G7 and Goes Straight to G7e Instances
From Crawling to Calling: Cloudflare Buys Human Native to Fix AI’s Data Problem
Finally, an AI That Actually Listens to Your War Room Panic
Tag, You’re Governed: AWS Automation Takes the Wheel
Cloudflare Reaches for the Stars: Astro Framework Acquisition Lands
Gemini Gets Personal: Google AI Finally Reads Your Email (With Permission)
AWS Strikes Ore: Amazon Cuts Out the Middleman in Copper Supply Chain
When Your Region Goes Down More Often Than Your Kubernetes Cluster
ChatGPT Go: OpenAI’s New Middle Child Gets $8 Allowance
Cloudflare’s Space-Age Acquisition: Astro Gets Jetsons-Level Upgrade
Rosie the Robot Fired: Cloudflare Brings Astro Framework Into the Family
It took 5 years, and now we have ads in our AI.
AI now with Ads
EU says hands off my data

General News

00:50 Heather’s data is not unreliable

Maybe it’s unreliable.
I blame Matt for having screwed up his outtro (as he did today), in which case I no longer recognize his participation.

01:11 Astro is joining Cloudflare

Cloudflare acquires The Astro Technology Company, bringing the popular open-source web framework in-house while maintaining its MIT license and multi-cloud deployment capabilities.
Major platforms like Webflow Cloud, Wix Vibe, and Stainless already use Astro on Cloudflare infrastructure to power customer websites.
Astro 6 introduces a redesigned development server built on Vite Environments API that runs code locally using the same runtime as production deployment. When using the Cloudflare Vite plugin, developers can test against workerd runtime with access to Durable Objects, D1, KV, and other Cloudflare services during local development.
The framework focuses on content-driven websites through its Islands Architecture, which renders most pages as static HTML while allowing

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