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