Welcome to episode 242 of the The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy. This week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew, and Jonathan are talking about DoH – or DNS over HTTPS, the Digital Ocean, CISO issues, and whether employee issues over at Amazon will impact user experience. It’s a quiet week, but some interesting conversations you’re not going to want to miss.

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Tired of the Winter of Other Announcements, The Cloud Pod Hits the Digital Ocean
• Breaking Through the Chill: The CloudPod Dives into Digital Ocean’s Latest
• Fed Up with the Winter of Other Announcements? Dive into Digital Ocean with the CloudPod!
• The Cloud Pod Almost Didn’t Bother with an Episode This Week
• The Cloud Pod Starts the Year Off Slow
• The Cloud Pod is Silently Slacking Off
• Running DNS over https Does Not Mean You Can’t Blame DNS for Always Breaking
• DNS over HTTPS, One More Way DNS Will Break

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AI is Going Great – Or how ML Makes Money

7:20 OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama

• Listener Note: paywall article, but worth reading.
• According to two people interviewed by the Information, Open AI’s revenue has grown to 1.6B from its ChatGPT product, up from 1.3b as of mid-October.
  • That’s a 20% growth over two months.
• As this happened during the period of the leadership crisis, it seems to not have had much impact.
• This roughly means OpenAI is making $130M a month from the sales of subscriptions.  And yes, that includes us. You’re welcome, OpenAI.

8:28 Justin – “I’m sure this is a ‘it made 1.3 billion or $1.6 million in revenue’ and they spent $25 billion. I’m pretty sure that’s the current scenario.”

AWS

9:23 The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is now available

• Ca-west-1 has opened the thirty-third AWS region with 3 AZ’s.
• 70 services available at launch.
• According to the announcement, “This second Canadian Region allows you to architect multi-Region infrastructures that meet five nines of availability while keeping your data in the country.”
• We apologize for Justin’s terrible Canadian accent.

11:09 DNS over HTTPS is now available in Amazon Route 53 Resolver

• HTTPS continues to take over the world, coming for your Route 53 Resol