Keeping up with the latest cloud computing developments takes a lot of time and effort. Connecting with cloud providers, software developers, and executives online is easier than ever, but what if you could harness all their knowledge and bring it straight into your headphones?
Here are some of our favorite cloud podcasts with unscripted ideas, solutions, and experiences to take your cloud understanding to the next level.
Subscribe to these shows to learn everything from cloud computing best practices to cost optimization tips.
1. Cloud Atlas
Humans are a terrestrial species biologically, but in terms of how we live, work, learn, and play, we’re really a cloud-native species. The cloud revolutionized human life, but outside the tech community, people have a limited understanding of it.
In Cloud Atlas, CloudZero demystifies the cloud — including the story of the cloud, from prehistoric times (i.e., the 1990s) to the present day, where it came from, what it enabled, and how universally it’s used on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment basis.
Cloud Atlas includes interviews and stories from Allan Vermeulen (who proposed S3 and led the team that built it), Matt Round (former director of Amazon’s Personalization Department), Andy Jassy (former AWS CEO, current Amazon CEO), and more! Check out the podcast here.
2. The Cloud Pod
The Cloud Pod’s more than 250 episodes playlist packages cloud news, views, and events into 50-minute bites each. IT executive Justin Brodley, cloud consultant Peter Roosakos, cloud platform engineer Jonathan Baker, and Ryan Lucas interview, discuss, and share cloud leaders’ takes and announcements weekly.
Also,, learn about multicloud management trends and cloud security solutions you can implement in your environment. Their TCP Talks show brings you guests who are changing the game; they recently hosted New Relic One’s Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Daniel Kim, to share cloud obserevability tips from where he sits.
3. The Official AWS Podcast
If you have workloads running on the largest cloud provider’s ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, the Official AWS podcast is a must-listen. Tune in for launches, infrastructure updates across AWS, and deep dives to help you understand trends, new technologies, and more.
Listen and learn from Co-hosts Hawn Nguyen-Loughren (DevSecOps), Shawn Elisha (Chief Technologist), and Jillian Forde (Senior Solutions Architect) as they approach the platform’s 600th episode. They steer the conversation toward value, whether you are working on ML models or just making your cloud computing knowledge less cloudy.
4. AWS Morning Brief
This is one of two podcasts by Last Week in AWS (you can also follow their blogs). Three times a week, this podcast shares 15- —to 20-minute episodes with cloud computing intel for those with less than an hour to listen.
Corey Quinn, a Chief Cloud Economist, contextualizes and pokes fun at the latest AWS news, explores popular AWS services, and answers listener questions about AWS architecture. It is all sprinkled with a little bit of snark.
5. The Data Cloud Podcast
Snowflake’s Data Cloud Podcast is a voice for data business leaders and technicians. A journalist, and award-winning author, Steve Hamm chats with business leaders worldwide as they share how they aggregate, analyze, and leverage their data to achieve growth and competitive advantage.
The Podcast recently hosted Zabka Future’s EVP and Managing Director, Tomasz Blicharski, for Episode 63. He shared interesting insights on how to transition to the cloud in only three months, about autonomous stores, and how to take advantage of Snowflake’s marketplace.
6. Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
But if you’d rather hear about the Azure cloud platform from a non-provider podcast, The Microsoft Cloud IT Pro series will more than fill in. For these weekly listens, your co-hosts are Scott Hoag (SharePoint and Azure expert) and Ben Stegink (Microsoft 365 expert).
In addition to discussing news and events related to Microsoft Intelligent Cloud products, they contextualize what the developments could mean to you as an IT professional or end-user and explain what you can do about them.
7. The Azure Podcast
Six co-hosts will discuss a diverse range of topics related to Azure, from the imminent, such as how to leverage machine learning practically, to the possibilities, such as making deliveries with Azure-backed drones.
You can listen to the more than 450 episodes on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, Amazon Music, and more. The Azure Podcast discusses anything related to the Microsoft Cloud platform.
Yet, there are more leading voices in the Azure cloud world, should you want to look around a bit more. Other Azure cloud podcasts include:
Azure Friday
Scott Hanselman chats one-on-one with the engineers behind Microsoft Azure’s services every Friday. They demonstrate how the services work, answer Scott’s questions, and share actionable insights you can immediately implement.
Azure Flash News
Listen in as the hosts do demos, break Azure cloud news, and discuss updates so you can further sharpen your Microsoft cloud knowledge.
Azure Lunch
This podcast promises news, events, and Azure tips in bite-sized chunks that you can munch through on your lunch break. It is available on Apple Podcasts, Audacy, and PodBean.
Azure Late Show Podcast
Every other week, an episode goes beyond Microsoft Azure news and releases to show how to successfully leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in the Microsoft Cloud.
CTRL+ALT+Azure Podcast
Hosts Jussi Roine and Tobias Zimmergren are on their way to delivering their thoughts, experience, and expectations of the Azure cloud across 200 episodes.
8. Cloud Engineering
Cloud Engineering by Software Engineering Daily covers a range of technologies throughout the software engineering lifecycle from the perspective of thought leaders and developers. You can choose whether to stick to episodes most closely related to cloud engineering or discover other gems, from machine learning and ChatGPT to Kubernetes security and leveraging data.
9. Cloud Do You Do
Cloud Do You Do is a podcast by Revolgy that explores cloud and IT topics through interviews with experts from startups and large companies. It emphasizes the critical role of IT infrastructure in business growth, challenging the notion that IT is secondary during scaling.
The podcast has over 50 episodes with recent discussions including AI’s role in cloud troubleshooting and reliability, and more.
10. Cloud Unfiltered
Tune in as Michael Chenetz hosts the who’s who in the cloud space to discuss cloud architectures. Cisco’s Cloud Unfiltered podcast also deep dives into various cloud deployment strategies, examining the best ways to leverage the ideal approach for your environment and workloads.
The podcast also dissects various cultural changes you could make to take full advantage of your cloud investment.
11. Go Time
Changelog Media’s Go Time will be a valuable listen if you are looking for practical insights on the Go language related to cloud deployments. That also includes discussions around cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, microservices, Docker, and distributed systems.
The Go Time crew records live every Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern. During the show, you can chat with them through the #gotimefm channel (Gophers Slack).
12. Day Two Cloud
Once you’ve decided to migrate to the cloud, the next thing to go over is how to successfully operationalize your public, private, hybrid cloud, or multicloud environment. This is the challenge that Day Two Clouds’ co-hosts Ned Bellanvance (AWS, Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware expert) and Ethan Banks (Co-founder at Packet Pushers) seek to help you solve.
The chats feature engineers leading burgeoning cloud ops initiatives and seeing success—or who have learned lessons the hard way so you don’t have to.
13. CloudCast
Listen to the CloudCast if you intend to tap into the broad knowledge base this podcast delivers. You’ll gather everything from technical discussions on Big Data in the cloud and IoT to Open source and AppDev.
The episodes are available in a range of lengths, from bite-sized chunks to full-hour shows. You can also listen to any episode you want and watch it on 10 different platforms, including Spotify and YouTube.
14. The Delliotte On Cloud Podcast
Hosts Mike Kavis and David Linthicum want to help you discover cloud best practices that you can implement today without the trial and error that can quickly become expensive.
So, in these weekly episodes, both hosts call on cloud leaders to share the tools they are using, when, and when is the best time to implement their shared strategies.
Likewise, tune in to hear about possible pitfalls in various cloud strategies from people who’ve tested them, saving you the trouble.
15. Screaming In The Cloud
Listen to this weekly podcast for news, feature updates, and comparisons of all the major cloud service providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud. Corey Quinn is also the host of the AWS Morning Brief, only this time, you get to learn about developments, and the “why” behind them, on one podcast.
This might also appeal to you if you’re looking for a place where cloud experts have profound insights to deliver without taking themselves too seriously.
16. The Cloud Architects
The Cloud Architects podcast delivers perspectives from various cloud projects and developers using a variety of relevant technologies.
The three hosts are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) with specialized areas of expertise; Nicholas Blank is a Microsoft Office 365 and Azure MVP, Warren du Toit is an open-source solution MVP, and Chris Goosen is a Microsoft solutions architect).
The trio focuses on best practices, aiming to help you deliver on your cloud promise without breaking your SLAs or budgets.
17. Cloud Security Podcast by Google
The Cloud Security Podcast by Google is a weekly show exploring cloud security topics. Hosts Anton Chuvakin and Timothy Peacock interview experts on issues like cloud posture, security practices, and Google’s unique methods for managing security at scale.
By December 2024, the podcast had 202 episodes, including discussions on SOC advancements, detection engineering, and AI in security.
18. CloudFocus Weekly
Co-hosts Justin Edelstein and Jason Atwood used to do this podcast once a week. CloudFocus Weekly covered cloud computing news, from new technology to acquisitions, for years until July 2020. You can still listen to all 317 episodes on multiple podcasting platforms, many of which are still relevant in the post-COVID cloud computing era.
19. Kubernetes Podcast
The Kubernetes Podcast from Google covers cloud-native apps and everything K8s. Your hosts are Senior Developer Advocate at Google, Abdelfettah Sghiouar, and Open-source Kubernetes Developer Advocate at Google, Kaslin Fields.
The weekly show delivers news and straight talk from the Kubernetes community. Guests include experts from Google (a pioneer in Kubernetes), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which hosts the K8s project, and other insiders.
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