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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hot take from #374: Claude's watermark isn't hidden text or metadata — it's baked into word-choice randomness itself (SynthID-Text style). Detectable statistically, but not attributable. Wild how quietly this stuff ships. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/374-dat… #AI

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Justin’s gone, Ryan and Matt “cut stories,” and The Cloud Pod still runs over an hour. Outstanding restraint. The good news is you won’t miss out on any important news. Also, Matt rolled back to his old outro. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/374-dat…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

62 gas generators. No permits. A $1.1 million fine. This week on the pod, Ryan and Matt discuss the fallout and whether that's simply a “cost of doing business” or an actual fine for bad behavior (hint: it’s def not the second one). www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/374-dat…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hot take from the pod: Gemini and ChatGPT will hack you, but Anthropic sits on its high horse. Same industry-wide containment issues reportedly hit Meta and OpenAI too — this isn't a one-off, it's a pattern. 🐴 www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/373-rai…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has Justin already taken advantage of yet ANOTHER new feature released this week? You bet your bottom he has. AWS finally delivers new T8i burstable instances, and we’ve already moved Bolt over. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/373-rai…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Claude Code now makes shareable artifacts that update as you work. Justin’s already using them, and the reviews are positive. Join the conversation about this welcome update on episode 373 of The Cloud Pod. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/373-rai…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Google is exploring a data center in Ryan’s neck of the woods in New Mexico. In an attempt to get ahead of all the negative publicity, Google says it’ll cover the related infrastructure costs, including smart water use www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/372-wel…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MrBeast is taking Gemini into the jungle, desert, and Arctic for survival challenges. We're finally asking Skynet the important questions: can AI help you avoid becoming the internet's next mysterious disappearance? www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/371-mrb…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra has reached a “Critical” cybersecurity rating and can tackle longer, more complex workflows. Great news for enterprise AI, but maybe less exciting for those familiar with science fiction. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/371-mrb…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ep #370 is live: full Hugging Face incident report (reward hacking, rogue agent comms, all of it), Nvidia reportedly circling a $13B buyout, and a judge ruled the Claude ban unconstitutional. Ryan skipped a nap for this one. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/370-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anthropic and the Feds are still going at it, although this time the news is much better for Anthropic. But will the feds comply? Let’s ask the Magic 8 Ball: “Outlook not so good.” Let’s chat about it. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/370-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

$13B for Hugging Face—would you buy? And does GitHub's retry-storm postmortem fix the real problem, or just patch the symptom? Listen to ep #369 and tell us where you land. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/369-hug… #AI #cloudcomputing

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hot take from Justin on GitHub's outage postmortem: "Maybe we need to rethink core fundamentals of how Git works. It was designed for humans, around human speed and scale." Retry storms at 2.9B commits/month say he's onto something. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/369-hug… #DevOps

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

EC2 turns 20 this year! It started with one instance type in one region. Today? 1,200+ instance types across 39 regions, plus specialized hardware for AI and HPC. So happy birthday, EC2. You’re making us feel really old. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/369-hug…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still talking about GitHub's latest outages, and why the follow-up kind of stinks. Ep. 369 of The Cloud Pod digs into what happened and how GitHub plans to prevent the next capacity crisis. Listen today and join the conversation. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/369-hug…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Did the GitHub outage break your CI/CD pipeline too? Or are you team "self-hosted sandboxes so this never happens to me"? Tell us how you weathered it, then catch our full breakdown on ep 368. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/368-git… #CloudComputing

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hot take from ep 368: GitHub's outage wasn't just "servers down" — it was Copilot's retry behavior amplifying token traffic PLUS scraping attacks on codeload endpoints, at the same time. Compounding failures are the real villain. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/368-git… #DevOps

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Apparently “AI can buy things with sort of fake money” is the next logical step from “AI can write all my code.” I mean, what can go wrong? The banks are totally in, right? AgentCore payments are now generally available, and we have thoughts. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/368-git…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Kid's book authors, here's an idea: GitHub and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Copyright infringement? Maybe. Accurate? Yes. Join us for ep. 368 of The Cloud Pod as we discuss GitHub's worldwide outage... www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/368-git…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Manual permission prompts in Claude Code caught only 13.6% of dangerous commands. Auto mode caught 89%. Humans got worse at reviewing the longer sessions ran. That's... not great, humans. #AI www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/367-cla…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Which cloud provider's earnings surprised you most this quarter — AWS's 37% jump, Azure crossing $100B, or Google Cloud's 82% growth? Tell us in the replies, then catch the full breakdown on ep #366 🎧 #CloudComputing www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hot take: capex is the real earnings story. Google raised 2026 guidance to $195-205B, Azure up 69% to $41B, AWS up 68% to $54.21B. Cloud growth is great, but Wall St cares more about AI infra spend. #CloudComputing www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have you ever had a bonus 1.8 million show up unexpectedly on a bill? We haven’t… but it turns out Amazon has, thanks to AI agents, which - while very powerful - can also be very expensive. Who knew? www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This week: AI agents, security chaos, MCP changes, North Korean hackers, cloud earnings, and one VERY expensive Amazon coding “experiment.” Episode 366 of The Cloud Pod is available now! www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/366-you…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

$230 for an AI keypad, or 432 kernel CVEs to patch this week? Rough either way. Which story from ep 365 has your attention: OpenAI's hardware flop or the AI models that allegedly hacked Hugging Face on their own? Tell us below 👇 www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/365-lin… #DevOps

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hot take from ep 365: 432 kernel CVEs in 2 days isn't a security crisis, it's a triage crisis. When every bug fix gets a CVE, scanners choke and real risks hide in the noise. Sysadmins need risk-based filtering, not more alerts. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/365-lin… #linux

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

OpenAI dropped a $230 keyboard. Yes, we talked about it last week. But *this* week we’re just grateful we weren’t the only ones making fun of it. #TheCloudPod #Keyboard #noveltytech www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/365-lin…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

432 Linux CVEs in TWO DAYS?! Ryan's off living his Eagles tribute band dreams, so Justin, Matt, and Jonathan are left to break down all the security drama alone. Episode 365, available now! #TheCloudPod #Linux www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/365-lin…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Kimi K3 is aiming for the moon…but AWS billing beat them there. Justin and Matt discuss Moonshot AI’s newest model, and, spoiler alert, they’re really looking forward to it. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/364-aws…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everyone waking up on Friday morning: AWS: Here’s your bill for 2.5 million dollars. Have fun with those overdraft fees! #episode364 #TheCloudPod #AWS #Billingerrors www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/364-aws…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

SQS just turned 20. GuardDuty is now sniffing out Bedrock bandits. Cloudflare wants to spot bots by watching your mouse move. Wild week in cloud. Which story got you talking? Give episode 363 a listen and tell us 👇 www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/363-sqs…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hot take from Justin on Nadella's "Reverse Information Paradox": you're selling the LLM that's sucking up everyone's data, THEN complaining about it? "So what's your solution, Satya? That's what I want to know." 😂 www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/363-sqs… #AI

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Happy birthday to Amazon SQS! 20 years later, it's still quietly moving messages around the cloud while the rest of us take the credit. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/363-sqs…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI coding agents are creating a whole new infrastructure problem. Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke thinks the answer is a distributed Git network built specifically for AI, and investors just backed it with a $60M seed round - which www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/363-sqs…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ctrl+Z has reached Kubernetes, and that’s really good news for some folks! AWS now lets you roll back EKS version upgrades because regret should never be part of your deployment strategy. #TheCloudPod #Kubernetes #TheCloudPod #EKS www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mec…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mec…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

OpenAI has Sol, Anthropic has Sonnet 5, and EVERYONE has an announcement that they work with those models. On top of that, Mythos just got the green light, but for only a select few. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/361-bee…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If you’re like Justin and thought S3 has all the features it could possibly have, then hold on to your butts - because we’ve got even more for you! Tune in this week to hear all about them. #TheCloudPod #Episode360 #S3 #AWS www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/360-and…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

AI is getting smarter, bu our cloud bills are getting smarter too (at finding new ways to surprise us.) This week we discuss the rise of #Tokenomics, AI cost tracking, and why FinOps is changing the www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/359-tok…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What's your take: should AI have built-in spend limits? Justin, Matt & Ryan debate this + Anthropic's "slow down AI" stance (for everyone but themselves 👀). Listen & share your thoughts! ☁️ #CloudPod www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/358-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

AWS introduced an AI-powered FinOps Agent, which, of course, means we now need Skynet to tell us what Skynet was spending the Skynet money on. So you’ll still be broke, but at least you’ll know why. #TheCloudPod #Episode358 #FinOps www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/358-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

GitHub processed 1 billion commits in 2025. Now it's handling 1.4 billion... PER MONTH. Crazy right? We break down GitHub's scaling battle and the AI-generated code tsunami on Episode 358 of The Cloud pod, available now. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/358-ai-…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Is your company's AI coding budget already on fire? 🔥 Are CEOs at your org demo-drunk vs. deployment-ready? Listen to ep 357 and tell us what you think 👇 www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/357-cac… #CloudPod

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hot take from Justin: as open models mature, the FinOps conversation around AI shifts completely. Why pay premium token costs when cheaper options close the gap? CEOs are demo-drunk while the budget burns. Ep 357: www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/357-cac…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in just 4 months. 🔥 Justin & Matt break down why AI tools are costing more than the coders they replaced — and what it means for FinOps. Ep 357: www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/357-cac… #FinOps #CloudPod

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Is AI actually cheaper than human labor? Internal data from Microsoft (and a potentially massive budget blowout at Uber) suggest token costs at scale are becoming incredibly difficult to justify. www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/357-cac…

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How are YOU securing agentic workloads today? Drop your approach below 👇 EP #2169 with William Morgan covers service mesh, MCP, and zero trust for AI agents. Worth a listen. thecloudpod.net/podcast/keep-the-raccoons-out-service-mesh-wiliam-morgan-buoyant/ #CloudNative

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hot take from #2169: Zero trust isn't just for humans anymore. When your AI agents are making autonomous calls, the mesh has to enforce identity at every hop — not just the edge. William Morgan breaks it down 🦝 thecloudpod.

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Justin Brodley @jbrodley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"MCP is a red herring." William Morgan (Linkerd / Buoyant) on TCP Talks: the real issue is uncontrolled access to your APIs, and we've known about it for years. AI just turned up the temperature.

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