Episode 413: Swim between the flags

This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam.

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Runner-up Titles

• Airplane Ghost
• No Hashtag for That
• Sorry Fellow Travelers
• That’s what they said about Google Reader
• That’s the beauty of nonsense stories
• How do you really feel Brandon?
• Nobody wants monitoring data
• Airport Hotels
• I don’t remember
• Security Line Sick

Rundown

• Checking in on Cloud Earnings
  • Cloud Giants Update
  • Clouded Judgement 4.28.23
  • IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022
  • Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched
  • Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug
  • Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division
  • Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo
  • Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record
  • Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth
  • Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz
• OpenCost
• Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit
• MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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• Venture Capital Deals
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• Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees
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