Episode Details

This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 439

Runner-up Titles

• Costservability
• Just a second
• 439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
• We’ve never made a mistake
• A million Amazon users of Copilot
• Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
• Two Turntables and a Microphone
• Default Search Engines

Rundown

• Cloud Earnings Review
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis
  • Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business
  • Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23
• OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring
• Free Software Product
  • Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
  • Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide
  • Business Models
• Default Search Engine
  • Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine
  • Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
  • “Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge
• Paid Social
  • Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix
  • Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription
  • YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs
• SolarWinds
  • SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack
  • Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a