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!

• 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

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 selective client-side interactivity using any UI framework.
• This approach addresses the complexity that made building performant websites difficult before 2021, providing a simpler foundation for both human developers and AI coding agents.
• Astro 6 adds stable Live Content Collections for real-time data...