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<