McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on Kubernetes

McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on Kubernetes

Author: Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast March 21, 2026 Duration: 14:56

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at what happens when new interfaces create old responsibilities.

McKinsey patched a vulnerability in its internal AI tool Lilli, Kafka contributors are pushing a diskless-topics model that rethinks durability and replication in cloud environments, and Google officially closed Wiz acquisition in one of the biggest cloud-security moves. Plus: AWS is sunsetting Copilot CLI, Kubernetes launches an AI Gateway Working Group.

Links

McKinsey statement on Lilli

https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/media/statement-on-strengthening-safeguards-within-the-lilli-tool

Kafka diskless topics proposal

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/The%2BPath%2BForward%2Bfor%2BSaving%2BCross-AZ%2BReplication%2BCosts%2BKIPs

Google completes acquisition of Wiz

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/wiz-acquisition/

AWS Copilot CLI end-of-support

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/announcing-the-end-of-support-for-the-aws-copilot-cli/

Kubernetes AI Gateway Working Group

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/03/09/announcing-ai-gateway-wg/

Amazon Bedrock observability for first-token latency and quota consumption

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-bedrock-observability-ttft-quota/

Cloudflare JSON responses and RFC 9457 support for 1xxx errors

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-11-json-rfc9457-responses-for-1xxx-errors/

Amazon S3 source-region information in server access logs

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-s3-source-region-information/

AWS Config adds 30 new resource types

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-config-new-resource-types/

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime stateful MCP server features

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-runtime-stateful-mcp/

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