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