Talking Cloud

Talking Cloud

Brett Gillett and Travers Annan

Episodes 45
Avg. Duration 57m
Activity Highly Active
Since Oct 2023
Latest Episode May 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
62%
Hosting
curiousorbit.com

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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

Pi Agent, Claude Design, and a $30K Bedrock Bill

May 20, 2026 1h 10m

Talking Cloud episode 47: the Pi coding agent, Claude Design, a $30K Claude-on-Bedrock bill, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and a robot lawnmower hack.

Q Developer Dies, AgentCore Payments, Agentic Coding Trap

May 13, 2026 1h 24m

Q Developer hits end-of-support as Kiro takes over, Bedrock AgentCore adds first-party payment support, and a Lars Faye piece on agentic coding sparks the longest debate of the night.

AWS MCP Server GA, Mythos Zero-Days, Mona's AI Cafe

May 06, 2026 1h 22m

AWS rolls the MCP server into a new Agent Toolkit, Mythos digs 271 zero-days out of Firefox 150, and an AI agent has been running a Stockholm cafe for two weeks.

Bedrock Managed Agents, OpenAI on AWS, and Cursor Nukes PocketOS

Apr 29, 2026 1h 18m

AWS ships a managed agent harness in AgentCore, OpenAI's Codex lands on Bedrock, and a Cursor/Opus agent erases PocketOS's production database in nine seconds.

Anthropic's $25B, MCP SDK RCE, and Kimi's 12-Hour Horizon

Apr 22, 2026 1h 21m

Amazon plows another $25B into Anthropic, the Anthropic MCP SDK ships an RCE that Anthropic won't fix, and Kimi K2.6 runs 12 hours and 4,000 tool calls on a single task.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

Beyond the re:Invent Buzz: Database Savings, S3's Quiet Power, and Real-World AI Strategy

Dec 11, 2025 56m

AWS practitioners discuss database savings plans, S3's evolution into specialized platforms, and why successful AI teams mix multiple models in production.

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