363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line

Episode 363 July 22, 2026 01:19:50
363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line
The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line

Jul 22 2026 | 01:19:50

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Hosted By

Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

Welcome to episode 363 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including Amazon SQS turning 20, Grok solving a Rubik’s cube, and Cloudflare’s new “spot the bot” tool, which harnesses *checks notes* monitoring mouse movements? Ok… It’s been a busy week in the cloud, so let’s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week

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General News 

01:36 Former GitHub CEO Unveils Distributed Git Network Built for AI Coding Agents

03:31 Justin – “Get fired for having all these issues, and then solve the problem anyway.

06:03 Satya Nadella on X: “https://t.co/xv6csf1SbV” 

07:26 Justin – “I get what he’s saying, but I also, you are selling one of the largest LM models that’s literally sucking up all this knowledge and doing exactly what you just complained about. So what’s your solution, Satya? That’s what I want to know.”

AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money 

10:59 We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps 

12:29 Ryan – “…this is one of those things I think that when you’re using multiple models in your development or playing around, you always have this thought: it’d be interesting to see what, given the same problem, and see what the differences are. And so it’s nice to see that someone actually did it.” 

15:48 Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents

AWS

20:50 Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS 

22:04 Ryan – “Hey Anthropic, maybe this should just be in your product? Ever thought of that?”

24:22 AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments:

25:09 Ryan – “It’s only what, a decade after GoogleBot Quick Labs that they’re bringing this back? A little behind on this one.” 

26:59 OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server

30:49 Building secure AI agents at scale: Introducing Loom for AWS

31:54 Justin – “This is when Amazon gives you a sort of nice thing, but batteries not included.” 

33:50 Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale 

35:16 Ryan – “I love SQS. It’s one of those foundational services that, when in Amazon, I use in every application seemingly that I design just because it’s so easy to sort of build either a state machine off of Lambda or some containerized event-based coordination across multiple components. Great. I love this.”

40:51 AWS Security Hub now provides AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets

44:24 Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads

45:09 Ryan – “I always laugh that they have to – in every single blog post – they have to explain the difference between Security Hub and Guard Duty because it’s sort of like the same thing. But you know, it’s just what Amazon does. They have Guard Duty for the detections, and they have config, and they have all these different things that feed into Security Hub as your sim kind of, you know, so it’s sort of funny.”

GCP

49:07 New ways to keep Google Cloud certs current

53:48 Google Cloud Run sandboxes are in public preview 

55:00 Ryan – “This is crazy cool. I love this. If you have an agent execution inside your own cloud container, it has access to everything. And it’s so easy to do prompt injection, you know, and if you don’t catch that in your application, the user on the other side of that application using the app could just get all of that system information directly. And so this is a way to sort of secure against that, which is fantastic.”

55:54 Introducing k8s-aibom on GKE for automated AI bills of materials 

57:09 Ryan – “I look forward to having to roll this out immediately to address shadow AI.” 

Azure

58:54 Azure Monitor Observability Agent goes autonomous (preview)

1:01:07 Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files 

1:02:01 Justin – “I really, really had hope that we were we were on this trajectory that would end up with there, you know, being no SIFs or NFS file shares ever again, like or necessary, and now it’s all coming back with like such a vengeance. It’s so crazy, ’cause it’s like we were so close to everything’s gonna be optic storage, and now AI screwed it all up for everybody.” 

1:03:24  Tokenomics | The new AI currency & your options explained

1:03:57 Justin – “Also, a big thing that impacts your token costs – caching.” 

Emerging Clouds

1:06:42  Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions

1:07:47 Ryan – “This is neat, like if you’re running a globally distributed app, this has always been sort of an issue. Like trying to manage your multi-regions and your availability and blue-green deployments even.” 

1:08:40  Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals

1:09:36 Justin – “If you are a CloudPod host, and you add this to your thing and you break our bot, I’m just gonna stop covering you.”

After Show 

1:08:40 RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method | RFC Editor

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