Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 348
A malicious PyPI compromise silently stole SSH keys and cloud credentials—and was only caught because the malware had a bug.
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348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions
Episode 348 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, Microsoft, Compliance, Subscriptions, Stryker, Delve, and Snowflake
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 347
Celebrating 20 years of AWS and S3, plus a long-awaited fix to the infamous S3 bucket naming collision problem that plagued developers for decades.
347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”
Episode 347 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Recording, Anthropic, Microsoft, Copilot, Atlassian, AI, and Claude
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 346
OpenAI’s rapid model releases and Amazon’s blame game over AI-generated code failures spark debate on shared responsibility in the modern SDLC.
346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents
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.
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 345
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.
345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery
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.
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 344
An AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI coding tools—a cautionary tale about giving AI unrestricted access to production environments.
344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It
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.