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 issued over 2,000 features in their respective cloud platforms in just over 1 year. These can be big releases or just some minor tweaks.

The major clouds Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba release thousands of new features every year (refer to https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2AOZQAQL&ct=220728&st=sb). These can be simple additions to existing services such as virtual machines or storage, but also new services with pre-packaged code that enable the fast deployment of web services.

But there’s much more. Think of the possibilities of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from cloud platforms or building digital twins in the cloud. Cloud providers already also offer quantum simulation and it&...