363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line
Join Justin, Matt, and Ryan on episode 363 of The Cloud Pod as they dive into the latest in cloud and AI innovation. This week, we celebrate 20 years of Amazon SQS, explore the future of distributed Git networks for AI agents, and break down Anthropic’s Claude Code desktop redesign. From new AWS AI security tools and Google Cloud Run sandboxes to the economics of AI, get the essential updates on the services shaping the industry.
362: Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API
In episode 362 of The Cloud Pod, titled “Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API,” the team explores the sunsetting of Amazon Mechanical Turk and its impact on the AI data pipeline. Key cloud updates include the introduction of Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS, AWS Security Hub’s expansion to Microsoft Azure, and the expansion of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork to web and mobile. The episode also dives into Google Cloud’s AlloyDB AI functions, Microsoft’s Frontier Company AI engineering initiative, and the public preview of Azure Chaos Studio Workspaces. Finally, the “After Show” discusses Sony’s decision to end physical PlayStation game discs by 2028 and what that means for digital ownership
361: Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works
Episode 361 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud and AI news from AWS, Azure, GCP, Nano Banana, Anthropic, OpenAI, MCP, and ACME
360: And you thought AWS was out of features for S3. Surprise!
Episode 360 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, S3, Anthropic, Kafka, Analytics, agents, and Kubernetes
359: Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it’s Just Cloud Budgets
Episode 359 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, AI Tokens, Anthropic,Oracle, FinOps, Earnings, Brazo, Data Centers
358: AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren’t Free Therapy
In Episode 358 of The Cloud Pod, Justin, Matt, and Ryan dive into the latest industry shifts, including Anthropic’s contradictory call for an AI development pause while prepping for an IPO, and GitHub’s massive scaling challenges amidst a surge in AI-generated code. The team also breaks down significant announcements from Snowflake, Google, and Azure, alongside a discussion on managing your AI Spend Limit as new agentic tools and compute-intensive workflows become the norm. Listen now to get the full rundown on the week’s biggest cloud news.
357: Cache Me If You Can – Now With Durability
Are tech executives suffering from “AI psychosis”? Is AI more expensive then the people it was meant to replace? This week, Justin and Matt dive into the reality behind the hype. From Uber burning its entire 2026 AI coding budget (in just four months if you believe the word on the street) to Microsoft shifting employees away from Claude Code due to costs, the economic tension of AI adoption is officially here. Turns out, you still need a human in the loop!
TCP-Talks: Keep the Raccoons Out: Service Mesh, MCP, and Securing Agentic Workloads.
Linkerd creator William Morgan joins TCP Talks to explain why your data center now has a raccoon problem. We get into service mesh ten years on, why he thinks MCP is a red herring, and how to keep unconstrained agentic workloads from wandering into production and deleting the database. The fix, as it turns out, is mostly remembering to lock the door.
356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
Pope Leo on AI ethics and Labor, spy agencies buying models, and GitHub’s latest supply chain attack. Catch up on all the cloud news in Episode 356.
355: The Cloud Pod’s AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick
Welcome to episode 355 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin is out, so Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt are holding down the fort to bring you…