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Matt Kohn

Things Matt Says on Podcasts

Cloud engineer and DevOps leader with deep Azure and AWS experience, including eight years at a multi-cloud consulting firm. Appears on The Cloud Pod, the weekly cloud and AI news show covering AWS, Azure and GCP, alongside Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker and Ryan Lucas.

Where to Find Them

Matt Kohn hosts The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP .

Recently: “377: The end of stack overflow and we know it… and AI feels fine” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (October 2026); “376: Google Gemini Agents Gemini, Gemini Confused” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (October 2026); “375: AWS Finally Automates the Blame Game” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (October 2026); “374: Data Center Caught Gassing Up Without a Permit Slip” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (October 2026); “373: Raiders of the Lost Claude Artifact” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (September 2026); “372: Welcome to Microsoft Patch-A-Palooza” on The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP (September 2026).

What They Said

“Attackers have learned DevOps principles. They failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.” — Matt Kohn, The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

A Cloudflare analysis showed that malicious bot traffic from Yandex networks simply moved to other Russian hosts after drone strikes hit Yandex data centers. Matt jokes that the operators had better high availability and disaster recovery than most businesses manage.

The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP · 2026-10-29 Permalink → Listen →
The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP Around 25:55 into the episode
Matt Kohn

So what I'm hearing is they have properly configured their design for failure people running these bots and they have full HA and DR capabilities. And this is what every business should shy for. It just shows it's a business. If they're offline for minutes, it costs them X millions of dollars.

Ryan Lucas

Yeah.

Matt Kohn

It's kind of sad, but kind of true. Right? Like, yeah, they did. Attackers have learned DevOps principles. Right. That's like they failed over. That's fantastic. They did what we all wish our companies were doing every day.

Cody Chandler

I don't even think it's that complicated. I think they just changed their outbound routes. Probably. Like they just figured out how to use a different gateway. I mean, yes. Ruined like you, but then they moved the computer somewhere else and then just ran out of trap a flip it to rant.

Matt Kohn

Tell how many companies have you seen in your career that could not pull that off?

Cody Chandler

I mean, is all an answer?

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