Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.

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TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available.
Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
VMware become independent again (from Dell)
Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments.
The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS:

Our 2020 Predictions from last year
Our 2021 Predictions from last year

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

Zero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot…

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS

Alphabet/Google decides if they still believe they can get to #2 by 2023
We’ll start seeing the first generation of ex-AWS people starting new companies

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2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions