December 09, 2025

334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational

1 hour 28 minutes

Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares

Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026

NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing

AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets

AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human

Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows

Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code

No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown

AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation

AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety

AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55%

Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door

AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance

Follow Up

01:27 re:Invent

Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years…

Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt.

02:59 re:Invent predictions

Jonathan

Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability.

It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis.

AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) –

Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent

Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire

He retired from re:Invent Presentations

Ryan

New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips

Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers.

They brought the Rack Ryan

Expand the number of models in or via bedrock

Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3

Refresh to AWS Organizations

Justin

New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal

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