Welcome to episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are this week’s hosts, and they’ve scoured the clouds for all the latest news and announcements, including that Mythos drop. Is it the AI apocalypse that everyone is claiming? We’ve also got news from DigitalOcean, an email from Space, Claude and even some Guardrails. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

• Two AIs Walk Into a Studio and Actually Sound Good
• No More Idle GPUs Twiddling Their Tensor Cores
• When AWS Availability Zones Become Unavailability Zones
• Token by Token Codex Pricing Finally Makes Cents
• Just Ask AWS Where All Your Money Went
• You’ve Got mTLS: Amazon SES Locks Down Email Security
• Cost Explorer Finally Speaks Plain English
• Missiles Make AWS Multi-Region Strategy Mandatory
• Shell Yeah Your Agent State Now Persists
• S3 Files Finally Lets You ls Your Bucket
• Claude Found Your Zero-Day Before Lunch
• One Guardrail to Rule All Your AWS Accounts
• Premium SSD Wins Azure VDI but Your Wallet Cries
• No More Amnesia: Your Bedrock Agent Keeps Its Memories
• Pay Per Claw Anthropic Sharpens Its Pricing Policy
• Even Astronauts Need IT Support for Microsoft Outlook
• AWS still can’t answer the question of what EC2 Other is
• AWS announces several new Unavailability Zones

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00:45 Ground control to Microsoft: Artemis 2 astronauts deal with Outlook hiccup in deep space

• Artemis 2 astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft encountered a common Outlook configuration issue on their first day in space, requiring remote IT support from Mission Control to resolve it by reloading the commander’s files.
• NASA uses commercial off-the-shelf software like Microsoft Outlook for crew scheduling and personal communications, while keeping primary flight systems on separate radiation-hardened hardware, illustrating a practical separation of concerns in mission-critical environments.
• The Outlook issue stemmed from the app having configuration problems when no direct network connection is available, which the flight director noted is not uncommon, raising questions about offline-readiness for software deployed in connectivity-constrained environments.
• This incident is a useful reminder for cloud and enterprise software users that applications heavily dependent on network connectivity can...

Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this and more – so let’s get started!

• AWS Console Gets a Makeover Nobody Asked For
• From Eight Hours to 22 Seconds, Hackers Got Fast
• AWS Spring Cleaning Hits Nine Services Hard
• Trivy Pursuit Turns Into a 500K Credential Heist
• Skip the Consultant, AWS Security Now Hacks Itself
• AWS Pen Testing Agent Pokes Your Cloud Around the Clock
• Your Cringey Gmail Address Gets a Second Chance
• Stop Babysitting Servers, Let Google Handle MCP
• AI Agent Untangles Your Kubernetes Networking Spaghetti
• One Bad Actor Poisons a Hundred Million Downloads
• Lambda Finally Hits the Gym with 32 GB
• From GPU Hype to Production Inference Without the Hyperscaler Headache

01:28 Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says

• A US District Judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of War’s blacklisting, ruling the designation was First Amendment retaliation rather than a legitimate national security action.
• The court found officials lacked authority to blacklist Anthropic without considering less restrictive alternatives or providing evidence of an urgent security risk, noting the designation was triggered by Anthropic’s “hostile manner through the press.”
• The practical business impact was already substantial before the ruling, with three trade deals cancelled and other potential partners delaying negotiations, representing potentially billions in lost contracts over five years.
• Anthropic continues to balance the legal fight with maintaining its government relationships, publicly emphasizing alignment with the Department of War’s mission around safe AI deployment even while litigating against it.
• For cloud and AI vendors, this case establishes a notable precedent around government procurement decisions and First Amendment protections, with implications for how companies publicly challenge federal contracting positions.

02:35 Jonathan – “I’m guessing Anthropic is super busy with all the people coming to them for deals right now, because it seems to me that Anthropic is getting all the business customers and OpenAI are getting the personal customers.”

04:08 Delve Announces Changes and New Customer Support Measures

• Delve has responded to allegations from an anonymous Substack post by denying claims of faked evidence, clarifying that independent AICPA-accredited auditors, not Delve, issue SOC 2 reports and ISO 27001 certifications.
• The company published...