Episode Details

Welcome to episode 276 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, our hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan do a speedrun of OpenWorld news, talk about energy needs and the totally not controversial decision to reopen 3 Mile Island, a “managed” exodus from cloud, and Kubernetes news. As well as Amazon’s RTO we are calling “Elastic Commute”. All this and more, right now on The Cloud Pod. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• The Cloud Pod Hosts don’t own enough pants for five days a week
• IBM thinks it can contain the cost of K8s
• Microsoft loves nuclear energy
• The Cloudpod tries to give Oracle some love and still does not care
• The cloud pod goes nuclear on k8s costs
• ⛽Can IBM contain the costs of Kubernetes and Nuclear Power? 
• Google takes on take over while microsoft takes on nuclear
• AWS Launches ‘Managed Exodus’: Streamline Your Talent Drain
• Introducing Amazon WorkForce Alienation™: Scale Your Employee Discontent to the Cloud
• Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: Now with Real-Time Resignation Prediction

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General News

01:08 IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost 

• IBM is quickly becoming the place where cloud cost companies go to assimilate? Or Die? Rebirthed mabe? Either way, it’s not a great place to end up. 
• On Tuesday they announced the acquisition of Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams monitor and optimize their K8 clusters, with a focus on efficiency – and ultimately cost. 
• This acquisition follows the acquisitions of Apptio, Turbonomic, and Instana over the years. 
• Kubecost is the company behind OpenCost; a vendor-neutral open source project that forms part of the core Kubecost co