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Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week SOC 2 It to Me Delve Fires Back Shell Yeah Bedrock Agents Just Got Command Line Powers When Your SOC 2 Report Is Just Fan Fiction uv, Ruff, and ty Walk Into an OpenAI Acquisition Hash Field Expiration Is Here, and It’s No Redis Herring Stop Paying Full Price for Tokens You Already Bought Fake It Till You Audit It Cache Me If You Can CNCF Sandbox Edition Microsoft Learns Consent Matters in Copilot Rollout Microsoft’s Stinky Cloud Gets Federal Seal of Approval When Your Audit Trail Leads to a Blog Fight Ping Your AI Agent on Discord Like a Millennial Twenty Years of AWS and the Bill Never Stops The LLM hack that feels a lot like Node Shift Left Package issues Claude Code Auto Mode Lets AI Work Unsupervised Stop Babysitting Your AI Claude Code Goes Solo Auto Mode Gives Claude Code the Keys to the Car Java comes to the coffee shop with AI General News 01:21 Customer Updates: Stryker Network Disruption Stryker confirmed a cyberattack on March 11, 2026, that disrupted their internal Microsoft corporate environment, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping, but notably not their connected medical devices or cloud-hosted products. The attack vector was specific to Stryker’s Microsoft environment, which meant products running on AWS (Vocera Edge, Vocera Ease) and Google Cloud Platform (care.ai) were architecturally isolated and unaffected, demonstrating a practical benefit of multi-cloud separation. Stryker explicitly stated this was not ransomware or malware, and government agencies, including CISA, FBI, and the White House National Cyber Director, were engaged, with domain seizures linked to threat actors already executed. The incident highlights how healthcare organizations can architect medical device and cloud product infrastructure to be independent of corporate IT environments, as every product from Mako to SurgiCount to LIFEPAK operated normally due to network segmentation. Real-world patient impact was limited but present, with some personalized implant cases rescheduled due to shipping delays, underscoring that even contained corporate IT incidents c

Welcome to episode 347 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are in the studio recording today, and thankfully, Jonathan hasn’t replaced us all with Skynet – yet. This week, we’re discussing how old our tools (and us) are (hint: it’s really old), whether or not the SaasApocalypse is upon us, and whether or not the business or AI is responsible for the latest round of layoffs. Titles we almost went with this week S3 Bucket Names Finally Stop Being a Global Hunger Games One Million Tokens Walk Into a Context Window SLO Down and Smell the Reliability Metrics CloudWatch Finally Watches Your Whole Cloud Organization S3 Turns 20 and Still Buckets the Competition Azure SRE Agent Goes GA So You Don’t Have To Twenty Years of S3 and No Signs of Object Permanence One Rule to Monitor Them All Across AWS One Flag to Secure Them All on Cloud Run SaaSpocalypse Now Atlassian Layoffs Hit the Jira No More Bucket Name Bingo with S3 Regional Namespaces A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Claude Tokens One Command to Rule Your Autonomous AI Agents AI Fixes Your Incidents Before Your Boss Notices The CloudPod is only recording this week “Because of AI” Amazon begs users to leave Simple DB with another migration tool Follow Up 00:54 Microsoft’s brief in Anthropic case shows new alliance and willingness to challenge Trump administration Microsoft filed an amicus brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of War, urging a federal judge to temporarily block the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, citing substantial costs to government contractors that rely on Anthropic models. The brief arrived one day after Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork, built on Anthropic’s Claude, and four months after Microsoft committed up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a deal requiring Anthropic to spend at least $30 billion on Azure, making the legal filing directly tied to concrete commercial dependencies. Microsoft highlighted a procedural inconsistency in the government’s approach: the Pentagon gave itself six months to transition off Anthropic’s models while making the supply chain designation effective immediately for contractors, creating an unequal compliance burden. Amazon, which has