• SonicWall’s Cloud Backup Service: From 5% to Oh No, That’s Everyone
• AWS Spring Cleaning: 19 Services Get the Boot
• The Great AWS Service Purge of 2025
• Maintenance Mode: Where Good Services Go to Die
• GitHub Gets Assimilated: Resistance to Azure Migration is Futile
• Salesforce to Ransomware Gang: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
• Kansas City Gets the Need for Speed with 100G Direct Connect. Peter, what are you up too
• Gemini Takes the Wheel: Google’s AI Learns to Click and Type
• Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (Finally Has Cookies)
• Azure Goes Full Blackwell: 4,600 Reasons to Upgrade Your GPU Game
• DataStax to the Future: AWS Hires Database CEO for Security Role
• The Clone Wars: EBS Strikes Back with Instant Volume Copies
• Slurm Dunk: AWS Brings HPC Scheduling to Kubernetes
• The Great Cluster Convergence: When Slurm Met EKS
• Codex sent me a DM that I’ll ignore too on Slack

01:24 SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers

• SonicWall confirmed that all customers using their cloud backup service had firewall configuration files exposed in a breach, expanding from their initial estimate of 5% to 100% of cloud backup users. That’s a big difference…
• The exposed backup files contain AES-256-encrypted credentials and configuration data, which could include MFA seeds for TOTP authentication, potentially explaining recent Akira ransomware attacks that bypassed MFA.
• SonicWall requires affected customers to reset all credentials, including local user passwords, TOTP codes, VPN shared secrets, API keys, and authentication tokens across their entire infrastructure.
• This incident highlights a fundamental security risk of cloud-based configuration backups where sensitive credentials are stored centrally, making them attractive targets for attackers.
• The breach demonstrates why WebAuthn/passkeys offer superior security architecture since they don’t rely on shared secrets that can be stolen from backups or servers.
• Interested in checking out their detailed remediation guidance? Find that here.

02:36 Justin – “You know, providing your own encryption keys is also good; not allowing your SaaS vendor to have the encryption key is a positive thing to do. There’s all kinds of ways to protect your data in the cloud when you’re leveraging a SaaS service.”

04:43 Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

• Salesforce is refusing to pay ransomware demands from criminals claiming to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records, stating they will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion dema...

• AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership
• Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal
• From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics
• PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries
• Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language
• CLI and Let AI: Google’s Natural Language Database Assistant
• Satya’s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy
• Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It’s Personal (and Commercial)
• Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine
• Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use
• OpenAI Puts the “You” in YouTube (AI Edition)
• Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show
• Grok and Roll: Microsoft’s New AI Model Rocks Azure
• To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question
• Grok Around the Clock: Azure’s 24/7 Reasoning Machine
• Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines
• DigitalOcean’s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up
• NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage)
• The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right
• NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean’s Gateway to Savings
• BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind)
• The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed
• Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying
• Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks
• EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature
• MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol?

00:45 OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound – Ars Technica

• OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google’s Veo 3 and Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 capabilities.
• This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”
• The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through “cameos,” suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale.
• Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.
• The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics routines while maintaining proper physics.
• The addition of “sophisticated background soundscapes, speech, and sound effects” expands potential enterprise use cases for automated video production, training materials, and marketing content generation without separate audio post-processing.

• When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft’s Close Call with Cloud Catastrophe
• Bedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba’s Models Join the AWS Party
• DeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in Bedrock
• GPUs of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do)
• Kubernetes Without the Kubernightmares
• Firestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language Edition
• Do What I Meant, Not What I Prompted
• Atlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer Experience
• Entra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost Was
• Oracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked For
• Wisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft’s Dairy State Datacenter
• Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe)
• PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won’t Share Its TEEs
• Microsoft’s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PC
• Azure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow

00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course

• Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14.
• This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment.
• The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs.
• This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention.
• The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google’s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems.
• The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale.
• Interested in registering? You can do that here.

03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

• Atlassian is acquiring DX, a developer productivity ana...