352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza

352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza

Welcome to episode 352 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are safely back from Vegas (Ryan and Justin, anyway), and they have all the news and announcements from Google Next. Plus, we have Ryan’s take on Phish, news from Cloudflare, and a shoe company making a pivot. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started! TITLES WE ALMOST WENT WITH THIS WEEK * Redact Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself OpenAI **Anthropic * Fork Yeah Cloudflare Artifacts Is Here * Git Happens at Scale on Cloudflare * Bucket List Item Checked Lambda Mounts S3 File Systems * Terraform Your Agents Before They Terraform You * Cloud Run Gets GPUs and Finally Hits the Gym * Spanner Goes Rogue, Leaves the Cloud Behind * Knowledge Catalog Knows What Your Agents Did Last Query * One Control Plane to Rule a Million Chips * No More Incognito Windows for Your AWS Identity Crisis * Your Agent Can Now Write Files Without Burning Everything Down * Spend Caps Finally Tell Runaway AI Jobs to Chill * RIP Vertex, long live the agent * Agents all the way down * Google Next: This is the dawning of the Age of Agentic * Allbirds Proves AI Hype Needs No Infrastructure   A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera [http://www.thecloudpod.net/archera] to schedule a demo today.  We also wanted to tell you about something coming to the US for the first time — WeAreDevelopers World Congress!  They’ve been doing this in Europe for years, 15,000-plus attendees in Berlin, it’s one of the biggest developer events over there. Coté from Software Defined Talk is actually speaking at their Berlin event this summer, so we’ve got some firsthand context here. In September, they’re launching the North America edition. San José, September 23 to 25. 500-plus speakers, 18 tracks — cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, AI, data engineering, all of it. Speakers from Datadog, Honeycomb, Sentry, Google, LinkedIn, and Stack Overflow. Olivier Pomel, Christine Yen, Milin Desai, Kelsey Hightower – plus workshops and masterclasses, not just talks. These are people who know how to do a developer conference at scale. wearedevelopers.us, code DEVPOD26 for 15% off. Group rates on top of that for 4 or more. GENERAL NEWS  06:12 Amazon invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic part of AI infrastructure [https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/amazon-invest-up-to-25-billion-in-anthropic-part-of-ai-infrastructure.html] * Amazon [http://amazon.com] has committed up to $25 billion in additional investment in Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/], bringing its total potential investment to $33 billion. The latest $5 billion tranche is based on Anthropic’s $380 billion valuation, with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. * In exchange, Anthropic has committed to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, with a specific focus on Trainium custom AI chips, and plans to bring nearly 1 gigawatt of

351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money

Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your AI money bets, so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news about Mythos, Amazon finally becoming a utility, and even an aftershow where we discuss the computing power of Artemis. It’s a great show, so let’s get started!  TITLES WE ALMOST WENT WITH THIS WEEK * Three StorageClasses Walk Into an AI Workload * Deprecated Models Don’t Die, They Just Fail Your API Calls * SQL Walks Into a Graph Bar and Stays * Too Many Agents Spoil the Workflow * One Registry to Rule All Your Rogue AI Agents * Eight CPUs Walk Into Space, Only One Comes Back * Stop Retyping the Same Gemini Prompt Like a Caveman * Claude Code Routines Let AI Work While You Sleep * AWS Builds a Yellow Pages for Your AI Agents * GPT Finally Stops Refusing to Talk About Hacking * None of the hosts is ready for Next * We are once again trying to look into our next next next crystal ball and failing * Google is gonna announce AI, it’s just mandatory now * Las Vegas is calling, our Livers are crying A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera [http://www.thecloudpod.net/archera] to schedule a demo today.  We also wanted to tell you about something coming to the US for the first time — WeAreDevelopers World Congress!  They’ve been doing this in Europe for years, 15,000-plus attendees in Berlin, it’s one of the biggest developer events over there. Coté from Software Defined Talk is actually speaking at their Berlin event this summer, so we’ve got some firsthand context here. In September, they’re launching the North America edition. San José, September 23 to 25. 500-plus speakers, 18 tracks — cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, AI, data engineering, all of it. Speakers from Datadog, Honeycomb, Sentry, Google, LinkedIn, and Stack Overflow. Olivier Pomel, Christine Yen, Milin Desai, Kelsey Hightower – plus workshops and masterclasses, not just talks. These are people who know how to do a developer conference at scale. wearedevelopers.us, code DEVPOD26 for 15% off. Group rates on top of that for 4 or more. FOLLOW UP 01:47 AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier  [https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier] * Since the original Mythos/Project Glasswing announcement [https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing], AISLE published follow-up testing showing that small, inexpensive open-weight models can replicate much of the vulnerability detection work Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/] attributed to Mythos, with all 8 tested models detecting the flagship FreeBSD NFS buffer overflow, including a 3.6B parameter model costing $0.11 per million tokens. * A notable correction to the framing of the original announcement: cyb

350: It looks like you’re trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?

Welcome to episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are this week’s hosts, and they’ve scoured the clouds for all the latest news and announcements, including that Mythos drop. Is it the AI apocalypse that everyone is claiming? We’ve also got news from DigitalOcean, an email from Space, Claude and even some Guardrails. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week * Two AIs Walk Into a Studio and Actually Sound Good  * No More Idle GPUs Twiddling Their Tensor Cores  * When AWS Availability Zones Become Unavailability Zones * Token by Token Codex Pricing Finally Makes Cents * Just Ask AWS Where All Your Money Went * You’ve Got mTLS: Amazon SES Locks Down Email Security * Cost Explorer Finally Speaks Plain English * Missiles Make AWS Multi-Region Strategy Mandatory * Shell Yeah Your Agent State Now Persists * S3 Files Finally Lets You ls Your Bucket * Claude Found Your Zero-Day Before Lunch * One Guardrail to Rule All Your AWS Accounts * Premium SSD Wins Azure VDI but Your Wallet Cries * No More Amnesia: Your Bedrock Agent Keeps Its Memories * Pay Per Claw Anthropic Sharpens Its Pricing Policy * Even Astronauts Need IT Support for Microsoft Outlook * AWS still can’t answer the question of what EC2 Other is * AWS announces several new Unavailability Zones A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera [http://www.thecloudpod.net/archera] to schedule a demo today.  FOLLOW UP 00:45 Ground control to Microsoft: Artemis 2 astronauts deal with Outlook hiccup  [https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ground-control-to-microsoft-artemis-2-astronauts-deal-with-outlook-hiccup-in-deep-space/]in deep space [https://www.geekwire.com/2026/ground-control-to-microsoft-artemis-2-astronauts-deal-with-outlook-hiccup-in-deep-space/] * Artemis 2 astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft [https://www.geekwire.com/2026/nasa-countdown-artemis-moon-2/] encountered a common Outlook [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook?deeplink=%2Fmail%2F&sdf=0] configuration issue on their first day in space, requiring remote IT support from Mission Control [https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/nasa-artemis-microsoft-outlook-astronauts/] to resolve it by reloading the commander’s files. * NASA [https://www.nasa.gov/] uses commercial off-the-shelf software like Microsoft Outlook for crew scheduling and personal communications, while keeping primary flight systems on separate radiation-hardened hardware, illustrating a practical separation of concerns in mission-critical environments. * The Outlook issue stemmed from the app having configuration problems when no direct network connection is available, which the flight director noted is not uncommon, raising

349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx

Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this and more – so let’s get started!  TITLES WE ALMOST WENT WITH THIS WEEK * AWS Console Gets a Makeover Nobody Asked For * From Eight Hours to 22 Seconds, Hackers Got Fast * AWS Spring Cleaning Hits Nine Services Hard * Trivy Pursuit Turns Into a 500K Credential Heist * Skip the Consultant, AWS Security Now Hacks Itself * AWS Pen Testing Agent Pokes Your Cloud Around the Clock * Your Cringey Gmail Address Gets a Second Chance * Stop Babysitting Servers, Let Google Handle MCP * AI Agent Untangles Your Kubernetes Networking Spaghetti * One Bad Actor Poisons a Hundred Million Downloads * Lambda Finally Hits the Gym with 32 GB * From GPU Hype to Production Inference Without the Hyperscaler Headache FOLLOW UP 01:28 Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted,  [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/hegseth-trump-had-no-authority-to-order-anthropic-to-be-blacklisted-judge-says/]judge says [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/hegseth-trump-had-no-authority-to-order-anthropic-to-be-blacklisted-judge-says/] * A US District Judge granted Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/] a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of War’s blacklisting [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/anthropic-sues-us-over-blacklisting-white-house-calls-firm-radical-left-woke/], ruling the designation was First Amendment retaliation rather than a legitimate national security action. * The court found officials lacked authority to blacklist Anthropic without considering less restrictive alternatives or providing evidence of an urgent security risk, noting the designation was triggered by Anthropic’s “hostile manner through the press.” * The practical business impact was already substantial before the ruling, with three trade deals cancelled and other potential partners delaying negotiations, representing potentially billions in lost contracts over five years. * Anthropic continues to balance the legal fight with maintaining its government relationships, publicly emphasizing alignment with the Department of War’s mission [https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war] around safe AI deployment even while litigating against it. * For cloud and AI vendors, this case establishes a notable precedent around government procurement decisions and First Amendment protections, with implications for how companies publicly challenge federal contracting positions. 02:35 Jonathan – “I’m guessing Anthropic is super busy with all the people coming to them for deals right now, because it seems to me that Anthropic is getting all the business customers and OpenAI are getting the personal customers.”   04:08 Delve Announces Changes and New Customer Support Measures  [https://delve.co/blog/delve-announces-changes-and-new-customer-support-measures] * Delve [https://delve.co/] has

348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions

Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started!  TITLES WE ALMOST WENT WITH THIS WEEK * SOC 2 It to Me Delve Fires Back  * Shell Yeah Bedrock Agents Just Got Command Line Powers * When Your SOC 2 Report Is Just Fan Fiction * uv, Ruff, and ty Walk Into an OpenAI Acquisition * Hash Field Expiration Is Here, and It’s No Redis Herring * Stop Paying Full Price for Tokens You Already Bought * Fake It Till You Audit It * Cache Me If You Can CNCF Sandbox Edition * Microsoft Learns Consent Matters in Copilot Rollout * Microsoft’s Stinky Cloud Gets Federal Seal of Approval * When Your Audit Trail Leads to a Blog Fight * Ping Your AI Agent on Discord Like a Millennial * Twenty Years of AWS and the Bill Never Stops * The LLM hack that feels a lot like Node Shift Left Package issues * Claude Code Auto Mode Lets AI Work Unsupervised * Stop Babysitting Your AI Claude Code Goes Solo * Auto Mode Gives Claude Code the Keys to the Car * Java comes to the coffee shop with AI GENERAL NEWS  01:21 Customer Updates: Stryker Network Disruption  [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/about/news/2026/a-message-to-our-customers-03-2026.html] * Stryker [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/index.html] confirmed a cyberattack on March 11, 2026, that disrupted their internal Microsoft [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us] corporate environment, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping, but notably not their connected medical devices or cloud-hosted products. * The attack vector was specific to Stryker’s Microsoft environment, which meant products running on AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/] (Vocera Edge [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/smart-care/products/vocera-edge.html], Vocera Ease [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/smart-care/products/vocera-ease.html]) and Google Cloud [https://cloud.google.com/] Platform (care.ai) were architecturally isolated and unaffected, demonstrating a practical benefit of multi-cloud separation. * Stryker explicitly stated this was not ransomware or malware, and government agencies, including CISA, FBI, and the White House National Cyber Director, were engaged, with domain seizures linked to threat actors already executed. * The incident highlights how healthcare organizations can architect medical device and cloud product infrastructure to be independent of corporate IT environments, as every product from Mako [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/joint-replacement/systems/Mako_SmartRobotics_Overview.html] to SurgiCount [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/surgical-technologies/products/surgicount-safety-sponge-system/surgicount-index.html] to LIFEPAK [https://www.stryker.com/us/en/emergency-care/products/lifepak-35.html] operated normally due to network segmentation. * Real-world patient impact was limited but present, with some personalized implant cases rescheduled due to shipping delays, underscoring that even contained corporate IT incidents c