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
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.
Check out thecloudpod.net/archera to schedule a demo today.
Follow Up
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
