Meta saw a social network and did what Meta does: acquired it and will slowly kill it. This time, it was a platform made entirely of AI agents. Even Skynet isn’t safe from being Zuckerberg’d.
Drone strikes took out AWS availability zones in the UAE and Bahrain, proving cloud infrastructure is now a real military target — and your DR excuses are gone.
Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what’s going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I hope you have a good Disaster Recovery plan), and Transit Gateway pricing changes that are enough to make a grown man cry.
An AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI coding tools—a cautionary tale about giving AI unrestricted access to production environments.
Welcome to episode 344 of The Cloud Pod, where Jonathan and Matt are holding down the fort to discuss the 13-hour AWS outage caused by the infamous Kiro AI coding bot. After an engineer granted it broad permissions, this agent went rogue, autonomously deciding the best fix for a minor issue was to delete and recreate the entire production environment. We dive into what this incident means for mandatory human-in-the-loop approval gates and why permission scoping is now a non-optional control for anyone running agentic AI in the cloud.
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 rewrites the AI benchmark, WebMCP brings structured tools to agents, and Microsoft breaks Notepad with AI features.
Episode 343 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, DeepThink, Cloudwatch Snooze, Notepad, EC2, and Bedrock
AI is helping hackers compromise AWS accounts in minutes, plus Big Tech earnings, Super Bowl AI ads, and Heroku’s move to sustaining engineering.
Episode 342 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Hackers, Snowflake, Opus 4.6, and SQLCon
Amazon cuts 16,000 roles including AWS engineering teams, while the Notepad++ supply chain breach exposes critical open source security risks.