205: The Cloud Pod decides to Bard or not to Bard. What’s the question?

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the new Amazon Linux 2023, Google Bard,  new features of Google Chronicle Security Operations, GPT-4 from Azure Open AI, and Oracle’s Kubernetes platform comparison. They also talk about cloud-native architecture as a way to adapt applications for a pivot to the cloud.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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.

This week’s highlights

• AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023.
• GCP: New capabilities available on Google Chronicle Security Operations
• Azure: Azure announces preview of GPT-4 in Azure Open AI Service.
• Oracle: Oracle compares its Kubernetes platform with that of Hyperscalers. 

Top Quotes

• “The goal of Cloud Native architecture is to develop scalable resilient ports of applications that you can easily deploy and manage in a modern Cloud environment”
• “You maximize the benefits of the platform you’re on and you minimize the weaknesses of it when you design for that platform”
• “There’s nothing that prevents you from going to the cloud if you’re not cloud-native, I just think you don’t get the advantages of the cloud native and what the cloud brings to you”

AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023.

• Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support
• This third generation of Amazon Linux Distributions includes security policies to apply the common industry guidelines.

GCP: New capabilities available on Google Chronicle Security Operations.

• 0⃣ Chronicle Security Operations Feature Roundup
• These New features enable a speedy response to threats.

Azure: Azure announces preview of GPT-4 in Azure Open AI Service.

• 0⃣ Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service
• As billing starts on the 1st of April, customers can begin harnessing Open AI’s most advanced model.

Oracle: Oracle compares its Kubernetes platform with that of Hyperscalers.

• 0⃣ Kubernetes cloud cost comparison: Who provides the best value?
• They highlight both serverless and managed K8 services and compare some specific services offered by both.

The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Native Architecture.

• Cloud-Native architecture is an approach to building and running applications that use Cloud computing principles and technologies.
• Some benefits are scalability, reduced time to market, better utilization of resources, integrated management and monitoring as well as efficiency with large or small-scale work.
• While it is possible to move to the cloud without being cloud-native, the benefits may be reduced and there are no provisions for the typical challenges in the cloud space.