Public clouds hit obstacle to innovation
The AWS re: Invent conference is not taking place in Vegas, but it is virtual and free. Virtual events are the positive side of the pandemic, because they keep me out of planes and eliminate 11 kilometers of walking every day at the largest public cloud conferences. Maybe I'm getting lazy in my old age, but the time that virtual events save seems to be more productive. Not to mention just AWS, but when we look at the innovations announced at public cloud events over the past year, there have been few game changers. Yes, most suppliers will continue to move towards smart advantage, providing more points of presence, and will continue to explore artificial intelligence. However, these are more evolutionary stages than revolutionary ideas. It doesn't matter if we're talking about moving from containers to serverless containers or from relational databases to cloud-based databases developed specifically or from outdated to next-generation cloud security. ...