August 29, 2025

318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)

1 hour 5 minutes

Welcome to episode 318 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re going on an adventure! Justin and Ryan have formed a fellowship of the cloud, and they’re bringing you all the latest and greatest news from Valinor to Helm’s Deep, and Azure to AWS to GCP. We’ve water issues, some Magic Quadrants, and Aurora updates…but sadly no potatoes. Let’s get into it!

Titles we almost went with this week:

You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Finally Hangs Up on Dial-Up

Ctrl+Alt+Delete Climate Change

H2-Oh No: Your Gmail is Thirsty

The Price is Vibe: Kiro’s New Request-Based Model

Spec-tacular Pricing: Kiro Leaves the Waitlist Behind

SHA-zam! GitHub Actions Gets Its Security Cape

Breaking Bad Actions: GitHub’s Supply Chain Intervention

Graph Your Way to Infrastructure Happiness

The Tables Have Turned: S3 Gets Its Iceberg Moment

Subnet Where It Hurts: GKE Finally Gets IP Address Relief

All Your Database Are Belong to Database Center

From Droplets to Dollars: DigitalOcean’s AI Pivot Pays Off

DigitalOcean Rides the AI Wave to Record Earnings

Agent Smith Would Be Proud: Microsoft’s Multi-Agent Matrix

Aurora Borealis: A Decade of Database Enlightenment

Fifteen Shades of Cloud: AWS’s Unbroken Streak

The Fast and the Failover-ious: Aurora Edition

Gone in Single-Digit Seconds: AWS’s Speedy Database Recovery

Agent 007: License to Secure Your AI

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General News

01:02 AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service | AP News

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2024, marking the end of a technology that introduced millions to the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Census data shows 163,401 US households still used dial-up in 2023, representing 0.13% of homes with internet subscriptions, highlighting the persistence of legacy infrastructure in underserved areas – which is honestly crazy.

Here’s hoping that these folks are able to switch to alternatives, like Starlink.

This shutdown reflects broader technology lifecycle patterns as companies retire legacy services like Skype, Internet Explorer, and AOL Instant Messenger to focus resources on modern platforms.

The transition away from dial-up demonstrates the evolution from telephone-based connectivity to broadband and wireless technologies that now dominate internet access.

AOL’s journey from a $164 billion valuation in 2000 to being sold by Verizon in 2021 illustrates the rapid shifts in technology markets and the challenges of ada

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

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