About this episode
Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news.
Literally.
All of it.
This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, MS-DOS Editor. All this and more, this week in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week:
ACM Finally Lets Its Certificates Leave the Nest
Breaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export Papers
Certificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private Keys
Skynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into Existence
Claude and Present Danger: When AI Fights Back
Breaking Up is Hard to GPU
EKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection Powers
Kubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the Dots
Hub, Hub, Hooray for Unified Security
Security Hub 2: Electric Boogaloo
All Your Security Findings Are Belong to One Dashboard
GuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack Detection
Shield Me From My Own Bad Decisions
AWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-Mole
Your VPC Called – It Wants Better Security Groups
Permission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 Minutes
Breaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party System
Gemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less Cash
AI Goes to Washington
GPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-funded
DDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror Story
Google’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)
Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed Back
From Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet Plan
Looker’s Pipeline Dreams Come True
MS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed
Control-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to Linux
Microsoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your Toaster
Copilot Gets Its Agent License
Visual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking Orders
The Bridge Over Troubled Prompts
Azure’s Managed Compute Gets More Coherent
Bring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure Bash
Function Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)
Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)
Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a Breeze
The Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in Check
CDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)
Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per Quarter
AWS and 1Password: A Secret Love Affair
Keeping Secrets Has Never Been This Public
Nano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2
Time Flies When You’re Having Nanoseconds
WorkSpaces Core: Now With
