Talking Cloud

Talking Cloud

Brett Gillett and Travers Annan

Episodes 40
Avg. Duration 55m
Activity Highly Active
Since Oct 2023
Latest Episode Apr 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
59%
Hosting
feeds.transistor.fm

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About This Podcast

Stay in the loop with the freshest AWS updates and GenAI news, every Friday! Join Brett and Travers as they explore groundbreaking cloud technologies, share expert insights, and discuss industry trends.

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Recent Episodes

Muse Spark, Mythos on the Attack, and Anthropic's Managed Agents

Apr 15, 2026 1h 11m

Meta re-enters the frontier race with Muse Spark, UK AISI publishes Mythos cyber evals, Anthropic ships Managed Agents, and AWS is running out of power before it runs out of customers.

S3 Files, Claude Mythos, and the Sandwich Incident

Apr 08, 2026 1h 12m

S3 becomes a file system, Claude Mythos escapes its sandbox mid-lunch, and the AWS Security Agent finds a real vuln in four hours for $200.

AWS Agents Hit GA and Claude Code Gets Leaked

Apr 01, 2026 1h 12m

AWS ships DevOps and Security agents to GA with multicloud support, console visibility gets a quality-of-life upgrade, and Anthropic accidentally leaks the Claude Code source.

S3 Drops Global Naming, Agents Hit the Complexity Wall

Mar 30, 2026 1h 13m

S3 bucket names no longer need to be globally unique, Brett shares what it actually costs to run a personal AI knowledge system on AWS, and an O'Reilly piece nails why agents make hard problems…

S3 Finally Drops Global Naming and Agents Hit the Complexity Wall

Mar 25, 2026 1h 13m

In this episiode, we cover S3 regional namespaces, OpenBrain's real AWS costs, Sora's shutdown, Claude Code Auto Mode, and why agents make hard problems harder.

From NSA Tractor Trailers to LLMs Inside MCP Servers

Mar 19, 2026 50m

This week, Brett and Travers welcome David Bauer - a guy who's been programming since 1982, got his AWS account directly from Jeff Bezos in 2005, and ran a parallel simulation on 9.9 million CPU…

From the NSA Cloud to LLM Guardrails

Mar 18, 2026 50m

David Bauer shares his path from building the NSA's first cloud in tractor trailers to putting LLMs inside MCP servers for decision governance.

Custom MCPs, Dropped Databases, and the Dev Pipeline

Mar 15, 2026 1h

Brett and Travers cover the week in AWS and GenAI, anchored by a cautionary tale about a developer who gave Claude Code full Terraform access and destroyed their production database. They also dig…

Custom MCPs, Dropped Databases, and the Junior Dev Pipeline

Mar 11, 2026 1h

Episode 36 covers custom MCP servers, a production database destroyed by an AI agent, and whether AI tools are collapsing the junior developer pipeline.

Cancel ChatGPT, BullshitBench, and Building OpenBrain on AWS

Mar 06, 2026 1h 18m Transcript

The #CancelChatGPT movement triggered a 295% uninstall spike and pushed Claude to #1 on the App Store following OpenAI's Pentagon deal — and researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and CMU published…

Cancel ChatGPT, BullshitBench, and Building OpenBrain on AWS

Mar 04, 2026 1h 18m

OpenClaw on LightSail, the CancelChatGPT movement, Agents of Chaos jailbreak research, BullshitBench, and Brett's OpenBrain second-brain built entirely by Claude.

AWS WAF AI Traffic, Kiro Powers, and the 2028 Labor Paper That Spooked Wall Street

Feb 26, 2026 1h 18m

Over half of Brett's website traffic is now ChatGPT—the new AWS WAF AI dashboard makes it painfully visible.This week: AWS WAF AI activity dashboard reveals your bot traffic breakdown with one-click…

WAF AI Dashboards, Kiro Powers, and the 2028 Labor Crisis That Spooked Wall Street

Feb 26, 2026 1h 18m

AWS WAF AI dashboards, Kiro Powers, Cline NPM compromise, Sonnet 4.6 benchmarks, and the Citrini 2028 labor displacement paper.

Do Not Code and Drive: AWS Console Updates, Agentic Security, and the Developer Who Stopped Typing

Feb 17, 2026 1h 4m Transcript

Brett and Travers cover AWS console quality-of-life improvements that are long overdue, Amazon's staggering $200B data center spend, and  what it actually means when Spotify's best developers haven't…

The LLM-Jacking Era: 10-Minute Admin Breaches and 1.5M Leaked Keys

Feb 04, 2026 1h 12m

Analyzing the 'LLM-jacking' trend where attackers hijack AI infrastructure, leading to record-breaking AWS admin breaches and massive credential leaks.

The Agentic Phreaking Phase and 50cm of Snow

Jan 28, 2026 1h 6m

Analyzing AWS Bedrock's browser agents, the Moltbot supply chain exploit, and NVIDIA's Earth-2 weather models.

The Velocity Tax: Solving IAM Friction and AI Reasoning Gaps

Jan 22, 2026 1h 10m

A technical review of this week's cloud news: Granular IAM 'Access Denied' details, Amazon Bedrock's new memory framework, and the Strands SDK for multi-agent systems.

Post-reInvent Quiet Period: CloudFlare Code Orange, Apple-Google GenAI Deal, and OpenAI's Cerberus Partnership

Jan 14, 2026 1h 1m

Brett and Travers discuss CloudFlare's architectural improvements, Apple's multi-year Gemini deal, and OpenAI's Cerberus chip partnership in this post-reInvent episode.

The Shift to Agentic Workflows and EKS Auto Mode: Talking Cloud 2026

Jan 11, 2026 1h

Explore the rise of agentic coding, the dominance of Anthropic in programming, and whether AWS EKS Auto Mode is the right fit for your CI/CD infrastructure.

The 2026 Agentic Roadmap: From Code Writing to Loop Managing

Dec 17, 2025 1h 6m

Explore the shift from writing code to managing agentic loops. Brett Gillett discusses AWS post-re:Invent updates, the new Gemini 3 Flash, and AI skills for 2026.

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