Keeping track of cloud developments – focusing on the business strategy
Any cloud architect or engineer will tell you that it's hard to keep up with developments. Just for reference, AWS and Azure issue over 2,000 features in their respective cloud platforms over just 1 year. These can be big releases or just some minor tweaks.
What would be major releases of features? Think about Azure Arc, Bastion, or Lighthouse in Azure, the absolutely stunning quantum computing engine Braket, and the open source operating system for container hosts known as Bottlerocket, in AWS. In GCP, we got Cloud Run in 2019, which combines serverless technology with containerized application development and a dozen open source integrations for data management and analytics. In March 2020, VMware released vSphere 7, including a lot of cool cloud integration features such as VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with Pacific, as well as Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, a catalog powered by Bitnami and Pivotal Labs...