193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022

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

• "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

• Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service (Preview)
• Announcing new workflow observability features for AWS Step Functions
• Source Protect for Cloud Code gives developers real-time security feedback as they work in their IDEs #46

• Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart
• Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing
• Google + Mandiant: Transforming Security Operations and Incident Response
• Raising the bar in Security Operations: Google Acquires Siemplify

• Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview)
  • Amazon VPC Lattice Pricing
• Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall
• Cloud Functions 2nd gen is GA, delivering more events, compute and control

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.

• ⬆️ Microsoft named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial IoT Platforms.
• While Amazon is a challenger, Google is not even on the list.

TCP Lightning Round

Other Headlines Mentioned:

• Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories were hacked.
• Announcing upcoming changes to the Amazon ECS console.
• Amazon ECS now supports container port ranges for port mapping
• Announcing AWS Systems Manager widgets on AWS Console Home.
• Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service (Preview)
• Announcing new workflow observability features for AWS Step Functions
• Source Protect for Cloud Code gives developers real-time security feedback as they work in their IDEs #46
• Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart
• Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing
• Google + Mandiant: Transforming Security Operations and Incident Response
• Raising the bar in Security Operations: Google Acquires Siemplify
• Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview) - Amazon VPC Lattice Pricing 
• Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall
• Cloud Functions 2nd gen is GA, delivering more events, compute and control