334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational

Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026 NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55% Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance Follow Up  01:27 re:Invent  Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years… Warner &#8211; Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt. 02:59 re:Invent predictions Jonathan Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it&#8217;s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability. It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis. AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) &#8211;  Garman &#8211; Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire He retired from re:Invent Presentations Ryan New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips Garman &#8211; announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers. They brought the Rack Ryan Expand the number of models in or via bedrock Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3 Refresh to AWS Organizations Justin New Nova Model &amp; Sonic with Multi-modal <li d