July 12, 2024

267: Cloud Maturity – Still Rarer Than a Unicorn Sighting

59 minutes

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Jonathan, Ryan, and Justin are trying to keep cool in new WorkSpaces Pools, avoiding the Heatwave with Oracle’s new LLM, taking a look at AWS Jamba (hold the straw) and taking a look at the ever elusive Cloud Maturity.

All this news and more, this week on The Cloud Pod!

Titles we almost went with this week:

The Cloud Pod takes a dip in the Workspaces Pool

The Cloud Pod Lineage view is suspect

A Gitlab, A BitBucket, and a Blueprint build a Workspaces Pool

AWS goes for a Jamba Juice

Google Cloud Autokey does exactly what it sounds like

Oracle LLM Heatwaves send us to the Amazon Workspace Pool

Jonathan is unimpressed with this weeks show

Highway to the DataZone

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General News

01:03 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2024: Cloud Maturity is Elusive but Valuable

Hashicorp just released the results of its State of Cloud Survey, and guess what? Cloud maturity is pretty elusive. Weird…

Hashicorp finds that 8% of organizations qualify as Highly Mature, this results that the biggest benefits are cloud is only going to a small group of truly mature organizations.

Justin wonders if this is part of the cloud repatriation push?

Are other listeners seeing some of this, especially on places like LinkedIn? We’d love to hear.

Trailblazers are finding faster development speed, lower costs and reduced risks while others continue to struggle to create haves and have nots with enterprises getting different business outcomes.

Hashicorp collected responses from almost 1,200 technology practitioners and decision makers at organizations with more than 1000 employees.

66% of respondents report that they have increased cloud spending in the last year, but 91% believe they are wasting money in the cloud, and 64% are experiencing a shortage of skilled staff.

45% of low maturity organizations are still waiting for their cloud strategy to pay off!

One of the key takeaways from the survey is that the path to cloud maturity increasingly relies on platform teams to help automate and systemize cloud operations.

However, only half the respondents 42% say they rely on centralized platform teams to standardize cloud operations throughout their organization.

Platform teams help manage cloud, but also help address the skills shortage that has long plagued enterprise cloud adoption.

If only they’d pay for training.

03:22 Jonathan – “The skill shortage thing really bugs me sometimes because there are plenty of skilled workers around and the reccs aren’t open for them. So I don’t think there aren’t qualified staff… yeah, it’s not a shortage because of the lack of people. It

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

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