193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022

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

• 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

Justin

• 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

Jonathan

• 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

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

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