193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022

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On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team wraps up 2022 so far, comparing predictions made with the events so far while projecting into 2023 as the year comes to a close. They discuss the S3 security changes coming from Amazon, the new control plane connectivity options with GCP, and Microsoft’s achievement, finally topping a list within the cloud space.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

  • 🚨 Starting in April, Amazon will change defaults around S3 security.
  • 🚨 The new control plane connectivity and isolation options are coming to GKE clusters
  • 🚨 Finally, Microsoft is Number #1 In a Cloud Thing.
  • 🚨 Salesforce Founder, Marc Benioff says employees hired during the pandemic are facing much lower productivity.
  • 🚨 Open AI’s new chat AI and AI playground create much buzz but with high compute costs, it will be monetized soon.
  • 🚨 A lookback at 2022 predictions by our hosts, none of which came true.
  • 🚨 The team gives 2023 predictions surrounding Microsoft, data Sovereignty and AI and No-code solution convergence

Top Quotes

  • 💡 “The problem with low-code No-code… is that the gap between those solutions and the bespoke development that you typically would meet is mountains of distance but with this [Open AI’s new chat AI] ..now I just have to tell the computer what I’m trying to do…and then the computer can determine what type of code to write for that”

2023 Predictions

  • 👤 Jonathan: Microsoft will release in preview of an Azure branded Chat GPT
  • 🚤 Justin: Data Sovereignty will drive single panes of glass against multi-cloud
  • 💂 Ryan: An influx of all of the AI and No-Code solution convergence

Favorite Announcements

Ryan

Justin

Jonathan

AWS: Starting in April, Amazon will change defaults around S3 security

  • 💂 Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023.
  • ️🕵️ Previously, S3 block public access and access control lists existed as console defaults and are recommended best practices.
  • 👤 However, with this change, there must be a specification of parameters as there will not be more security by default.

GCP: The new control plane connectivity and isolation options are coming to GKE clusters

  • 0️⃣ New control plane connectivity and isolation options for your GKE clusters.
  • 🚤 The new control plane connectivity and isolation options are coming to GKE clusters.
  • 🚤 GKE and other public clusters use Google cloud PSC to communicate between clusters.
  • 🚤 New capabilities have now been added, like allowing access to the control plane only via private endpoints, as well as access from Google cloud and others. 

Azure: Finally, Microsoft is Number #1 In a Cloud Thing.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Here are the scores this Lightning Round: Justin 9, Ryan 8, Jonathan 5, Peter 0, Joe 1 

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