DeepSeek: Data Privacy or Data Breach?

Episode 291: AWS, GCP And Azure Eat KRO

Welcome to episode 291 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan have battled through the various plagues and have come together to bring you all the latest in cloud news, including Kro, DeepSeek, and CoPilot.

Is DeepSeek really sending data to China? Let’s decode

Jonathan – “They’re collecting some weird data. I get collecting conversational data, because that is the business they’re in, but they’re also doing some weird stuff, like they fingerprint users by looking at the patterns of the way that they type. Not just what they type, but how they type, like the timing between hitting different letters – things like that.”

OpenAI Believes DeepSeek Was Developed Using OpenAI Models

Justin- “Oh, you mean the company that stole all the internet data in the world to create a model is complaining about another company stealing their data?”

Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look ‘insignificant’

Jonathan – “It’s no different than domain registrations expiring, or getting somebody’s phone number after it’s been advertised…I feel like they’re pointing the finger at Amazon a little more than they should. To say that it’s a supply chain attack is kind of a stretch because these companies don’t exist anymore, that’s why the buckets are gone – so it’s a dead supply chain attack.”

Introducing ChatGPT Gov

Justin – “Remember back in the early days of Cloud Pod when we were talking about all the engineers protesting at the companies about the machine learning being used on video content for police forces, and I was thinking about that compared to this…I don’t know if people are going to protest this. They should. They probably should.”

OpenAI Revenue Surged From $200-a-Month ChatGPT Subscriptions

Ryan – “I do love that the rabbit holes that I fall into for internet research have now been outsourced to AI, so I can just have the robot do the rabbit hole.”

Introducing deep research

Justin – “So if you want to try Deep Seek in a safer environment, Snowflake is your friend.”

Introducing Qonto’s Prometheus RDS Exporter – An Open Source Solution to Enhance Monitoring Amazon RDS

Ryan – “I do like the sort of standardization that Prometheus has brought. I get a little frustrated sometimes with some of the use cases, because it’s a big, big hammer that can be set up to solve little problems. But something like this, if you’ve got enough scale, where you’re struggling to visualize and see metrics across hundred of Amazon accounts, and then maybe you’ve got other applications that’s using OpenTelemetry – I think this is pretty cool that you can standardize it and put it all in one place.”

Amazon Redshift announces enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS

Justin – “Just use SQL backup natively please.”

Introducing custom rules in Workload Manager: Evaluate workloads against customized best practices

Ryan – “I mean, I do like these types of workflows, and the reason I like them is so you can practice security without everything being in force mode. And if you’re allowing direct access to clouds, then you are allowing the users in the company to not have to through a centralized team, or an infrastructure team…and you’re going to end up with insecure configurations, because random people are clicking through defaults.”

Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview

Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO

Ryan – “I can see this being easier to support within a business. But it still has all the problems that I don’t like about operators and custom resources, trying to make this the one the API for everything – on a very complex system.”