318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)

318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)

Author: Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News August 29, 2025 Duration: 1:05:22

 Welcome to episode 318 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re going on an adventure! Justin and Ryan have formed a fellowship of the cloud, and they’re bringing you all the latest and greatest news from Valinor to Helm’s Deep, and Azure to AWS to GCP. We’ve water issues, some Magic Quadrants, and Aurora updates…but sadly no potatoes. Let’s get into it! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

  • You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Finally Hangs  Up on Dial-Up
  • Ctrl+Alt+Delete Climate Change
  • H2-Oh No: Your Gmail is Thirsty
  • The Price is Vibe: Kiro’s New    Request-Based Model
  • Spec-tacular Pricing: Kiro Leaves the Waitlist Behind
  • SHA-zam! GitHub Actions Gets Its Security Cape
  • Breaking Bad Actions: GitHub’s Supply Chain Intervention
  • Graph Your Way to Infrastructure Happiness
  • The Tables Have Turned: S3 Gets Its Iceberg Moment
  • Subnet Where It Hurts: GKE Finally Gets IP Address Relief
  • All Your Database Are Belong to Database Center
  • From Droplets to Dollars: DigitalOcean’s AI Pivot Pays Off
  • DigitalOcean Rides the AI Wave to Record Earnings
  • Agent Smith Would Be Proud: Microsoft’s Multi-Agent Matrix
  • Aurora Borealis: A Decade of Database Enlightenment
  • Fifteen Shades of Cloud: AWS’s Unbroken Streak
  • The Fast and the Failover-ious: Aurora Edition
  • Gone in Single-Digit Seconds: AWS’s Speedy Database Recovery
  • Agent 007: License to Secure Your AI

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General News 

01:02 AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service | AP News

  • AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2024, marking the end of a technology that introduced millions to the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • Census data shows 163,401 US households still used dial-up in 2023, representing 0.13% of homes with internet subscriptions, highlighting the persistence of legacy infrastructure in underserved areas – which is honestly crazy. 
  • Here’s hoping that these folks are able to switch to alternatives, like Starlink.
  • This shutdown reflects broader technology lifecycle patterns as companies retire legacy services like Skype, Internet Explorer, and AOL Instant Messenger to focus resources on modern platforms.
  • The transition away from dial-up demonstrates the evolution from telephone-based connectivity to broadband and wireless technologies that now dominate internet access.
  • AOL’s journey from a $164 billion valuation in 2000 to being sold by Verizon in 2021 illustrates the rapid shifts in technology markets and the challenges of ada

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