Episode 99: 2020 overstays its welcome

The Cloud Pod

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team looks back on the incredibly weird year that was 2020 and how all we want is to give each other a hug (but we don’t because social distancing is important).

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

• 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.
• Open Raven, the cloud-native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.

This week’s highlights

• Amazon hurts Google’s feelings with its harshly worded message.
• Google is tapping into its inner dictator by vying for world domination.
• Azure wants you to know it made something cheaper.

Recapping the Shit Year That Was 2020

The Predictions That Were Made for 2020

• Justin: Amazon and Microsoft will work hard to compete with GKE.
• Peter: Kubernetes workloads will double in the next year.
• Jonathan: Amazon will open data centers across growing African economies, RISC-V based RISC instances will release (and Slack will be acquired this year for sure).
• No One: A global pandemic and Ryan would join the podcast (coincidence?).

Favorite Announcements of 2020

Ryan:

• AWS Serverless host and run applications, bringing it closer to what developers need. Tooling, savings plan
• Covid-19 response, from each vendor, from public data lakes, responding to capacity needs, database of research and overall support of WFH
• A big shift for Container Ecosystems, Split from enterprise/developer, Docker.com on downward trend, download limits

Peter:

• Google’s creation of the Open Usage Commons for trademarks
• Amazon Braket
• WFH trend — which may be permanent

Jonathan:

• Solarwinds Hack, and the risk of a supply chain hack occurs
• Confidential Computing and the encl