Cloud islands

I swam in the data lakes and raised to clouds but still canned in the Tube.

This article was first published on the 29th of April, 2022:

Two years have been a nightmare with Covid-19. However, this week’s recent AWS Summit experience at Excel, London, has left me with my eyes wide open.

Firstly, we are back to normal in our daily routines — almost nobody wearing face coverings in public spaces. The trains are human cans at rush hours. Social distancing? WTF is that? This is the old same social heard itself with or without immunity.

Secondly, everything will be different compared to two years ago at work. We headed to AWS Summit in person with app 20k attendees. Wow! WTF was that? The big tech is accelerating at high-speed and is disruptive!

I believe we are about to dismount half of the office workforce into redundancy in ten years, at most.

Only in the UK,11.6 million people require digital skills training to cope with everyday productivity. In business, the forthcoming transformation is enormous. The current leadership competencies need to be upgraded to technical skills. No business is digital-proof, and the mainstream work may run on big tech platforms rather than individual vendors and on-premise solutions.

Welcome to cloud islands.

This time, we paid a visit to Amazon’s island — a large one.

It is entirely a different ball game.

Serverless, codeless, DEV-free, AI-first business support for any business venture of any size. Look where we are!

Five years ago, I argued that it was not a good time to be a banker under such a transformation hype. The physical need for branches was melting by the heat of tech.

Today, I may argue that it is not a good time for conventional IT personnel as well. Or even consultants. The enterprise-level organisations will transform at speed light. ON CLOUD! Leaving everyone who is still not getting ready.

Besides;

From now on, the big tech has a comfortable chair in any boardroom without any legal partnership shares. Whether we like it or not, we are partnering with them. You get the idea.

Here is the playing league (or our new business partners) as of their market shares. Better meet them sooner.

I am a management consultant. The future of my work is a best case being a Big Tech partner. LIKE A BOT in the extensive system. Who would need consultancy anyways? All the knowledge is open-sourced and reachable at a quarter of a penny. All the information is stored in the data lakes. Level up, go and take it. Or, ask an agent to get the job done for you.

This is a job description for a NEW consultancy — BOTs in lakes.

It has always been challenging for any idea to go on stage. And the audience is silent. It is very different from what it was two years ago.

I may also mention that the average age of the AWS Summit attendees was not young. The GEN Z may be out of this congregation experience. The mass of gatherings. No need to argue about the hybrid structuring at work. The office or the events are already there. Even these mass events may end the series in a couple of years. We will stop running them in a staged setup and migrate to a metaverse altogether.

I hope you had a calm holiday break and take time to check out AWS, Azure and Google Cloud again.

We almost do it every day at MAViTUNA&Co.