SuperCloudbusting
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (1985) and may the samples live on for years to come.1
Getting Informed
I’ve been deeply immersed in multicloud pursuits for 566 days2 and by gathering facts, I developed a few opinions. I now believe that in a few more years, multicloud becomes popularized, supercloud becomes revivified, and ubiquitous workload substrate becomes a reality.
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First, let’s see where trends peaked as topics. For the trend of supercloud, we revisit the “Supercloud” related work out of Cornell circa 2015-2016.3
Next, let’s get a quote from Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst at The Wikibon Project who published a “Rise of the Supercloud” post that was jam packed with compelling charts and strong opinions in late 2021 (emphasis mine).
Supercloud is an architecture that taps the underlying services & primitives of hyperscale clouds to deliver additional value above and beyond what’s available from the public cloud provider. A supercloud delivers capabilities through software, consumed as services; and can run on a single hyperscale cloud or span multiple clouds.4
Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen 🎶
At present, there are a few facts that come to mind on what is happening and what is going to happen.
- GCP is expanding region coverage to places like Dallas TX USA.5
- Azure is expanding region coverage to places like Doha Qatar.6
- AWS Local Zones and Outpost availability is expanding to places like Panama.7
- 29% CAGR for public cloud revenue puts a path to ~$1T revenue in perspective.8
- Companies like Observe build on Snowflake which builds on public clouds.9
- And a contrarian point… 🤔 guy that shorted has a new thesis.10
Also, there are many places that are population centers and where things are made. So, supercloud could make sense for workloads that take advantage of access of eventual ubiquity and leverage the new digital highways (5G) being built as well.
https://www.cloudinfrastructuremap.com2Read: Cloud Data Services Ahead
3Read: supercloud.cs.cornell.edu
4Read: Breaking Analysis: Rise of the Supercloud David Vellante BY DAVID VELLANTE DECEMBER 7 2021
5Read: Google Cloud Region now available in Dallas TX USA
6Read: Microsoft’s Qatar Azure region to launch ‘in two weeks’
7Read: AWS Outposts rack in Panama
8Read: IDC Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenues
9Read: Why Observe Chose to Build on Snowflake
10Read: Hedge fund manager bets against data centers
