AWS announced a “one console to manage everything” approach, focusing on AWS Cloud WAN. Cloud WAN is presented as a way to quickly set up and manage multiple parts of an AWS-based network worldwide, including AWS “virtual private clouds,” or VPCs, along with customers’ own on-premise private cloud offerings.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has announced changes to its Windows release schedule, returning to a traditional three-year release cycle for major versions of Windows. The next one is scheduled for 2024, three years after Windows 11… but also one year after they announced going to a yearly cadence. And after previously saying Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows.
Why do we care?
Today is the world of fantasy in vendor statements.
Look, the one console to rule them all is a fantasy that vendors tell you. Like Atlantis and Nessie, you aren’t going to find it. It’s far more about integrations than a single pane of glass.
Will there be a new version of Windows? Yes, yes, there will. Will the cadence change again? Yes, yes, it will. Let’s not get too hung up here and simply know we must prepare for it.