311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum

Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow.  This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!   Titles we almost went with this week: (Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.)  FSx and the City: When File Systems Meet Object Storage The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home Kernel Sanders: Microsoft’s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said “It’s Not You, It’s Your Access Level” Google’s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google’s 10th Annual Carbon Confession Watts Up Doc? Google’s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve Terminal Velocity: Google’s AI Gets a Command Performance Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google’s New CLI Companion The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal AI See What You Did There: Google’s New Compliance Framework Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You Google’s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included) Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It’s Been Missing VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way) Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly WAF’s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security WAF and Peace: Microsoft’s Treaty Between Security Tools Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS’s Address Game Azure’s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions Follow Up 00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe – Ars Technica Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing catastrophic system-wide failures like the CrowdStrike incident that g... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure 1.3(00:00:54) - Microsoft Is Changing Windows to Prevent the Next Crisis(00:04:07) - Cloudflare: Pay Per Crawl(00:08:36) - Terraform Provider for OpenAI(00:14:01) - Amazon FSX for OpenZFS: Integrating with S3(00:20:29) - Amazon EC2 C8GN Nitro Card Instances(00:25:13) - DynamoDB now supports Multi Region Strongly Consistent(00:30:11) - Google's 2025 Environmental Report(00:35:07) - Google Announces Gemini CLI as an AI Agent(00:39:47) - Google Cloud: Introducing recommended AI Controls Framework(00:46:03) - Azure Monitor + Prometheus Metrics Integration in VS Code(00:52:45) - Microsoft Logic Apps: Public Preview (Security Copilot)(01:01:38) - Azure Front Door: Managed Certificate for Wildcard Domains(01:04:50) - Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Feature