310: CI You Later, Manual Testing

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News July 3, 2025 Duration: 1:51:15

Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news. 

Literally. 

All of it. 

This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, MS-DOS Editor. All this and more, this week in the cloud! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • ACM Finally Lets Its Certificates Leave the Nest
  • Breaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export Papers
  • Certificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private Keys
  • Skynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into Existence
  • Claude and Present Danger: When AI Fights Back
  • Breaking Up is Hard to GPU
  • EKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection Powers
  • Kubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the Dots
  • Hub, Hub, Hooray for Unified Security
  • Security Hub 2: Electric Boogaloo
  • All Your Security Findings Are Belong to One Dashboard
  • GuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack Detection
  • Shield Me From My Own Bad Decisions
  • AWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-Mole
  • Your VPC Called – It Wants Better Security Groups
  • Permission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 Minutes
  • Breaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party System
  • Gemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less Cash
  • AI Goes to Washington
  • GPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-funded
  • DDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror Story
  • Google’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)
  • Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed Back
  • From Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet Plan
  • Looker’s Pipeline Dreams Come True
  • MS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed
  • Control-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to Linux
  • Microsoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your Toaster
  • Copilot Gets Its Agent License
  • Visual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking Orders
  • The Bridge Over Troubled Prompts
  • Azure’s Managed Compute Gets More Coherent
  • Bring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure Bash
  • Function Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)
  • Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)
  • Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a Breeze
  • The Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in Check
  • CDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)
  • Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per Quarter
  • AWS and 1Password: A Secret Love Affair
  • Keeping Secrets Has Never Been This Public
  • Nano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2
  • Time Flies When You’re Having Nanoseconds
  • WorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work With
  • Mount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training Peak
  • Making it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More Compute
  • Cache Me If You Can: Google’s Plugin Play
  • CSI: Cloud Services Investigation

General News 

01:09 Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

  • Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025, whi

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