Episode Details

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