199: All AI Products Agree, Earnings are down

AI Products & Earnings On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the announcement of Amazon VPC resource map, Google’s new AI product, the new Bing AI-powered search engine, and why multiple accounts are necessary for data centers to carry out work seamlessly in 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: AWS announces Amazon VPC resource map GCP: Sundar introduces Google’s new AI product, Google Bard. Azure: Microsoft announces the resurgence of Bing now powered by Open AI and Edge browser. Top Quotes “How was Google the first one to start looking into AI and still be late to the market?” “That’s why you have a center of excellence; they’re positioned centrally to be able to orchestrate all the different moving parts and be able to facilitate the communication between all the different projects and parts of not only your business but also your cloud provider’s business as well” “I think it’s important to not try to answer the next ten years of problems but also to try to build in circuit breakers or flexibility into your designs so that you can quickly adapt” AWS: AWS announces Amazon VPC resource map. New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience ️️ This feature shows users their existing VPC resources and routing on a single page in order to simplify VPC creation on AWS. GCP: Sundar introduces Google’s new AI product, Google Bard. 0️⃣ An important next step on our AI journey It is a conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, being made available to trusted testers before the public. Azure: Microsoft announces the resurgence of Bing now powered by Open AI and Edge browser. 0️⃣ Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web The new Bing search engine will include a new chat experience and better search with complete answers, as well as other features. The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) The complexity of the workload being managed at data centers makes multiple accounts imperative for ease of processing. Despite the evolution in projects and accounts, there are some poorly thought out aspects, for example, shared VPC. The onus is on cloud users to identify what they need to communicate intrasystem and what they can have in complete isolation. Other Headlines Mentioned: Google suffered ‘pullback’ in ad spending over holidays, Alphabet stock falls after earnings