315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug
315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug  
Podcast: The Cloud Pod
Published On: Thu Aug 07 2025
Description: Welcome to episode 315 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Your hosts, Justin and Matt, are here to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including news about AI from the White House, the newest hacker exploits, and news from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: SharePoint and Tell: Government Secrets at Risk Zero-Day Hero: How Hackers Found SharePoint’s Achilles’ Heel Amazon Q Gets an F in Security Class Spark Joy: GitHub’s Marie Kondo Approach to App Development No Code? No Problem! GitHub Lights a Spark Under App Creation GKE Turns 10: Still Not Old Enough to Deploy Itself A Decade of Containers: Pokémon GO Caught Them All Kubernetes Engine Hits Double Digits, Still Can’t Count Past 9 Pods Account Names: The Missing Link in AWS Cost Optimization Flash Gordon Saves Your VMs from the Azure-verse The Flash: Fastest VM Monitor in the Multiverse Ctrl+AI+Delete: Rebooting America’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy The AImerican Dream: White House Plots Path to Silicon Supremacy CrowdStrike’s Year of Living Resiliently Kernel Panic at the Disco: A Recovery Story The Search is Over (But Your Copilot License Isn’t) Ground Control to Major Tom: You’re Fired GPU Booking.com: Reserve Your Neural Network’s Next Vacation Calendar Man Strikes Again: This Time He’s Scheduling Your TPUs AirBnB for AI: Short-Term Rentals for Your Machine Learning Models  Claude’s World Tour: Now Playing in Every Region Going Global: Claude Gets Its Passport Stamped on Vertex AI SQS Finally Learns to Share: No More Queue Hogging The Noisy Neighbor Gets Shushed: Amazon’s Fair Play for Queues CloudWatch Gets Its AI Degree in Observability Teaching Old Logs New Tricks: CloudWatch Goes GenAI The Agent Whisperer: CloudWatch’s New AI Monitoring Powers NotebookLM Gets Its PowerPoint License Slides, Camera, AI-ction: NotebookLM Goes Visual The SSL-ippery Slope: Azure’s Managed Certs Go Public or Go Home Breaking Bad Certificates: DigiCert’s New Rules Leave Some Apps High and Dry Firewall Rules: Now with a Rough Draft Feature Azure’s New Policy: Think Before You Deploy General News  00:50 Hackers exploiting a SharePoint zero-day are seen targeting government agencies | TechCrunch Microsoft SharePoint servers are being actively exploited through a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770), with initial attacks primarily targeting government agencies, universities, and energy companies, according to security researchers. The vulnerability affects on-premises SharePoint installations only, not cloud versions, with researchers identifying 9,000-10,000 vulnerable instances accessible from the internet that require immediate patching or disconnection. Initial exploitation appears t