Posts - The Cloud Pod

345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery

March 11, 2026 01:11:08

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.

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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 344

March 10, 2026

An AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI coding tools—a cautionary tale about giving AI unrestricted access to production environments.

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344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It

March 4, 2026 01:01:30

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.

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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 343

March 3, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 rewrites the AI benchmark, WebMCP brings structured tools to agents, and Microsoft breaks Notepad with AI features.

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343: AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze

February 25, 2026 01:11:34

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

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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 342

February 24, 2026

AI is helping hackers compromise AWS accounts in minutes, plus Big Tech earnings, Super Bowl AI ads, and Heroku’s move to sustaining engineering.

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342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account

February 18, 2026 01:25:46

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

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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 341

February 17, 2026

Amazon cuts 16,000 roles including AWS engineering teams, while the Notepad++ supply chain breach exposes critical open source security risks.

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341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out

February 12, 2026 01:13:29

Episode 339 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, OpenAI, instances, AWS Layoffs, and TranslateGemma

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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 340

February 12, 2026

Azure’s new SQL AI assistant and how Google’s SRE team uses Gemini CLI to automate DevOps workflows and eliminate repetitive tasks.

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