Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!

• EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares
• Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026
• NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing
• AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets
• AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human
• Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows
• Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code
• No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown
• AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation
• AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety
• AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55%
• Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door
• AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance

01:27 re:Invent

• Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years…
• Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt.

02:59 re:Invent predictions

Jonathan

1. 1. Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability.
      1. It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis.

• AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) –

• Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent

• Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire

• He retired from re:Invent Presentations

Ryan

• New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips

• Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers.

• They brought the Rack Ryan

• Expand the number of models in or via bedrock

• Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3
• Refresh to AWS Organizations

Justin

• New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal

• Garman Nova 2 – Lite, Pro, and Sonic (the lack of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega reference is a shame)

• Nova 2 Omni

• Announce a partnership with OpenAI (likely on stage)

1. 1. 1. Not announced as new, but said they’re running on AWS and that EC2 Ultraservers are in use.

• Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub (Automate the SOC teams)

• Garman – Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub – with NEW AWS Security Agent

Matt

1. A model router to route LLM queries to different AI models
2. Well-architected framework expansion
3. End user Authentication that doesn’t suck (not current Cognito)

Tie Breaker – How many times w...

• Fastnet and Furious: AWS Lays 320 Terabits of Cable Across the Atlantic
• No More kubectl apply –pray: AWS Backup Takes the Stress Out of EKS Recovery
• AWS Gets Swift with Lambda: No Taylor Version Required
• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Microsoft Splits Teams from Office
• FinOps and Behold: Google Automates Your Cloud Budget Nightmares
• AMD Turin Around GCP’s Price-Performance with N4D VMs
• Azure Gets Territorial: Your Data Stays Put Whether It Likes It or Not
• AWS Finally Answers “Is It Available in My Region?” Before You Build It
• Getting to the Bare Metal of Things: Google’s Axion Goes Commando
• Azure Ultra Disk Gets Ultra Serious About Latency
• Container Size Matters: Azure Expands ACI to 240 GB Memory
• Google Containerises Chaos: Agent Sandbox Keeps Your AI from Going Rogue
• AWS Prints Money While Amazon Prints Pink Slips: Q3 Earnings Beat

02:08 Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

• Microsoft avoids a potentially substantial EU antitrust fine by agreeing to unbundle Teams from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for a period of seven years.
• The settlement follows a 2023 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack alleging anticompetitive bundling practices that harmed rival collaboration tools.
• The commitments require Microsoft to offer Office and

• Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance – el -jb
• Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven – mk
• Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration – el
• GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet – mk, el
• Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs
• Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google’s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase
• RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey
• Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes
• I’m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions
• OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon’s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated
• The Root Cause They’ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA
• Google’s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely
• Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency

04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger – here’s what happened | ZDNET

• Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.
• The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others.
• The root cause was an inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door that bypassed safety validations due to a software defect. Microsoft’s protection mechanisms failed to catch the erroneous deployment, allowing invalid configurations to propagate across the global fleet and cause HTTP timeouts, server errors, and elevated packet loss at network edges.
• Recovery required rolling back to the last known good configuration and gradually rebalancing traffic across nodes to prevent overload conditions.
• Some customers experienced lingering issues even after the official recovery time, with Microsoft temporarily blocking configuration changes to Azure Front Door while completing the restoration process.
• The incident highlights concentration risk in cloud infrastructure, as this marks the second major cloud provider outage in October 2025.
• Despite Azure revenue growing 40 percent in the latest quarterly report, Microsoft’s stock declined in after-hours trading as the company acknowledged capaci...