About this episode
Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Journeys. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
CloudWatch’s New Feature: Because Nobody Likes Writing Incident Reports at 3 AM
DNS: Did Not Survive – The Great US-EAST-1 Outage of 2025
404 DevOps Not Found: The AWS Automation Adventure mk
When Your DevOps Team Gets Replaced by AI and Then Everything Crashes
Database Migrations Get the ChatGPT Treatment: Just Vibe Your Schema Changes
AWS DevOps Team Gets the AI Treatment: 40% Fewer Humans, 100% More Questions
Breaking Up is Hard to Compute: Microsoft and OpenAI Redefine Their Relationship
AWS Goes Full Scope: Now Tracking Your Cloud’s Carbon from Cradle to Gate
Platform Engineering: When Your Golden Path Leads to a Dead End
DynamoDB’s DNS Disaster: How a Race Condition Raced Through AWS
AI Takes Over AWS DevOps Jobs, Servers Take Unscheduled Vacation
PostgreSQL Scaling Gets a 30-Second Makeover While AWS Takes a Coffee Break
The Domino Effect: When DynamoDB Drops, Everything Drops
RAG to Riches: Amazon Nova Learns to Cite Its Sources
AWS Finally Tells You When Your EC2 Instance Can’t Keep Up With Your Storage Ambitions
AWS Nova Gets Grounded: No More Hallucinating About Reality
One API to Rule Them All: OneLake’s Storage Compatibility Play
OpenAI gets to pay Alimony
Database schema deployments are totally a vibe
AWS will tell you how not green you are today, now in 3 scopes
General News
02:00 DDoS in September | Fastly
Fastly‘s September DDoS report reveals a notable 15.5 million requests per second attack that lasted over an hour, demonstrating how modern application-layer attacks can sustain extreme throughput with real HTTP requests rather than simple pings or amplification techniques.
Attack volume in September dropped to 61% of August levels, with data suggesting a correlation between school schedules and attack frequency: lower volumes coincide with school breaks, while higher volumes occur when schools are in session.
Media & Entertainment companies faced the highest median attack sizes, followed by Education and High Technology sectors, with 71% of September’s peak attack day at
