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.
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 NestBreaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export PapersCertificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private KeysSkynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into ExistenceClaude and Present Danger: When AI Fights BackBreaking Up is Hard to GPUEKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection PowersKubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the DotsHub, Hub, Hooray for Unified SecuritySecurity Hub 2: Electric BoogalooAll Your Security Findings Are Belong to One DashboardGuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack DetectionShield Me From My Own Bad DecisionsAWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-MoleYour VPC Called – It Wants Better Security GroupsPermission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 MinutesBreaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party SystemGemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less CashAI Goes to WashingtonGPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-fundedDDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror StoryGoogle’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed BackFrom Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet PlanLooker’s Pipeline Dreams Come TrueMS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone NeededControl-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to LinuxMicrosoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your ToasterCopilot Gets Its Agent LicenseVisual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking OrdersThe Bridge Over Troubled PromptsAzure’s Managed Compute Gets More CoherentBring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure BashFunction Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a BreezeThe Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in CheckCDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per QuarterAWS and 1Password: A Secret Love AffairKeeping Secrets Has Never Been This PublicNano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2Time Flies When You’re Having NanosecondsWorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work WithMount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training PeakMaking it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More ComputeCache Me If You Can: Google’s Plugin PlayCSI: Cloud Services InvestigationGeneral News
01:09 Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS