Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code

The Cloud Pod

On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on. Gartner says low-code is growing!! NOOOOOO!

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

• 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 is teaming up with TV to make hockey more exciting.
• Google is no longer stuck in the 90s.
• Oracle thinks it’s ruggedly handsome — it is not.

Follow Up: Somebody’s In Trouble

• SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Microsoft source code for Azure, Exchange and Intune. Intune is probably the most damaging — this is not good news for Microsoft.

General News: The Glowing Puck

• Gartner is reporting that Low-Code development tool growth has grown 23% this year. Gartner, pay to play.
• AWS provides the National Hockey League with cloud, AI and machine learning services. It’s great to see computer tech adding to viewer engagement.
• Hashicorp announces the general availability of the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. It’s an interesting solution to a very hard problem.

Amazon Web Services: Everyone’s On Vacation

• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur. Completely stunned by this, aren’t you.
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups. This actually solves a small but annoying problem for Justin.

Google Cloud Platform: Jumping Back To 1994

• Google introduces schedule-based autoscaling for Compute Engine. Finally catching up to Azure and AWS, both of which have had this for a few years now.
• Google adds several new features to Google Cloud VMware Engines to support workloads moving from the cloud. We just want the VMware tools.
• Google launches Cloud Domains to make it easy to reg