305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"

Welcome to episode 305 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! How did you do on your Microsoft Build Predictions? As badly as us? Plus we’ve got news on AWS service changes, a lifecycle catch up page for all those services that bought the farm, tons of Gemini news (seriously, like a lot) and even some AI for .NET. 

Welcome to the cloud pod- and thanks for joining us! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• Google’s Jules: An AI Gem for Cloud Devs  
• Autonomous Agents of Code: Jules’ Excellent Adventure in the Google Cloud
• Gemini 2.5 Shoots for the Stars with Cosmic-Sized AI Upgrades
• Resistance is Futile: OpenAI Assimilates Your Codebase 
• AWS Transformers: Rise of the Agentic AI 
• Teaching an old .NET dog new Linux tricks
• CodeBuild Puts Docker Builds in Hyperdrive
• Inspector Gadget’s New Trick: Mapping Container Vulnerabilities
• Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Scanning Containers…
• Google Cranks AI to 11 with New Ultra Plan
• I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Ultra Overlords
• The Inference Engine That Could: llm-d Chugs Ahead with Kubernetes-Native 
•       Scaling
• Scaling Inference to Infinity and Beyond with Google Cloud’s llm-d
• Google Cloud and Spring AI: A Match Made in Java-n
• The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drifts into AI Studio Territory
• SQL Server 2025: A Vector Victor, Not a Scalar Failure
• AI will solve my life problems of having money in my pocket
• I used to scan all the containers but now I will just scan yours

AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money 

01:50 Jules: Google’s autonomous AI coding agent

• Jules is an autonomous AI agent that can read code, understand intent, and make code changes on its own. 
• It goes beyond AI coding assistants to operate independently.
• It clones code into a secure Google Cloud VM, allowing it to understand the full context of a project. This enables it to write tests, build features, fix bugs, and more.
• Jules operates asynchronously in the background, presenting its plan and reasoning when complete. This allows developers to focus on other tasks while it works.
• Integration with GitHub enables Jules to work directly in existing workflows without extra setup or context switching. Developers can steer and give feedback throughout the process.
• For cloud developers, Jules demonstrates the rapid advancement of AI for coding moving from prototype to product. Its cloud-based parallel execution enables efficient handling of complex, multi-file changes.
• While in public beta, Jules is free with some usage limits. This allows developers to experiment with this cutting-edge AI coding agent and understand its potential to accelerate development on Google Cloud.

02:56 Ryan – “More and more, as new tools get released, it’s just going to change the way anything gets written… it’s getting more and more capable.” 

05:45 Introducing Flow: Google’s AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo

• Flow is an AI-powered filmmaking tool custom-designed for Google’s advanced video, image and language models (Veo, Imagen, Gemini). It allows creators to generate cinem...

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: AWS Breaks Up With unpopular Services
• (00:01:02) - Google's Joules: A Code Editing Agent for Cloud Developers
• (00:04:54) - Google's AI Filmmaking Tool, Flow
• (00:08:45) - Gemini 2.5 Large Language Models Update
• (00:10:33) - Google's Alpha Evolve: The AI Coding Agent
• (00:12:50) - OpenAI's Codex AI Agent for Cloud Development
• (00:14:44) - HashiCorp Validated Patterns for Cloud-based IT
• (00:16:49) - Amazon AWS: End Support for Several Services
• (00:21:12) - Amazon's New Strands AI Agent SDK
• (00:28:01) - Cloud Cost Management: The Right Step for IT Pros
• (00:31:36) - AWS Code Build: New Docker Server Capability
• (00:33:18) - Amazon Inspector for Docker & ECR
• (00:34:51) - Google AI Ultra: A Premium Subscription Plan
• (00:39:10) - Database Center
• (00:40:32) - PostgreSQL on GKE