Welcome to episode 367 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are in the studio this week and ready with a lot of news, including passkeys (we know, they’ve had a rough week), Secrets Manager, Vector Search, and Glimmer (no, not my second favorite character from She-Ra), and even…wait for it…undersea cable news! 

We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week

• AWS Secrets Manager Jenkins Rotation Finally
• Claude Enterprise Hooks a Ride on Data Loss Prevention
• Passkeys Take the Wheel, SMS Rides Off Into the Sunset
• Claude Code Says Trust Falls Are Over
• Muse Glimmer Shines While Meta’s Wallet Dims
• Zuckerberg Bets Big on Open Weights, Loses on Free Cash Flow
• AI is persistently in the news
• How many ways are there to run vector search in AWS, now 1 more
• Vector Search is the new Docker on AWS… how many ways are there to run it
• AWS Says “You get a Vector Search, and you get a Vector Search”
• You say you’re a Cloud Azure, but “Azure Network Router Appliance” says otherwise
• Claude now tells the world, I did the AI Slop
• Open, Closed, Open; Zuckerberg is on the AI Revolving Door
• Anthropic triples everyone’s productivity with Automode

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01:40 Inference hooks: inline data loss prevention for Claude Enterprise 

• Anthropic launched inference hooks in beta for Claude Enterprise, providing inline data loss prevention across chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and other Enterprise surfaces through a single configuration point.
• Technical approach: every inference request routes through a signed WebSocket connection to a customer-controlled security server; Claude sends the prompt and context before generation begins and waits for an allow/deny verdict before proceeding. The same inspection applies to tool call responses, including those from MCP connectors, skills, and plugins.
• The feature uses an open, webhook-based protocol with a published schema, allowing integration with existing DLP vendors such as Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, and Zscaler, or custom in-house security servers, without requiring separate per-product integration work.
• Rollout controls include shadow mode (log without blocking), role-based exclusions, and percentage-based rollouts, along with configurable failure-policy tolerance and timeouts to match organizational risk requirements.
• This addresses a gap where inline enforcement was previously limited to Claude Code’s client-side hooks, giving compliance teams a unified enforcement layer for sensitive data across all Claude Enterprise channels. 
• Documentation is available