Welcome to episode 247 of the CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Pepperidge Farm remembers – and now so does ChatGPT! Today on the pod we’re talking about the new “memory” function in ChatGPT, secrets over at OCI, and Firehose dropping Kinesis like its HOT. Plus plenty of other Cloud and AI news to get you through the week. Let’s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• I Don’t Think Anyone Wants to be “Good Enough” in AI 
• Oracle Can Rotate All My Secrets
• Amazon Data Firehose – Not Without Kinesis 

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Follow Up

00:57 C2C Event 

Recently Justin was down at a 2gather event Google’s Cloud headquarters near Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. So to those new listeners who heard Justin there and just couldn’t get enough, welcome! We’re happy to have you. 

Want to see what events are coming up, and hopefully near you? Check out the lineup here. 

General News

08:25  Why companies are leaving the cloud 

• A recent study by Citrix, is saying that 25% of organizations in the UK have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures.  
• The survey questioned 350 IT leaders on their current approaches to cloud computing. 
• 93% of them had been involved in a cloud repatriation project in the last three years. 
• Surveyed said their reasons for moving from the Security Issues, High Project Expectations and unmet expectations, with most saying the cost was the biggest motivator, which definitely makes sense to us. 
• In general this isn’t my experience when talking to listeners, or folks at the recent C2C event; there’s always a few companies that probably shouldn’t have moved to the cloud in the first place, but those numbers don’t pan out to us in who we’re talking to. 
• We’re interested in listener feedback here – have any of you been involved in a repatriation project? 

09:55 Ryan – “I think it’s kind of the same thing that happened in reverse a few years ago, where it’s like all the companies are moving to the cloud. The same reports were, you know, 50 % of companies are moving other entire workloads into the cloud. And now it’s sort of the pendulum swinging the other way.”

AI is Going Great (or how ML Makes all Its Money) –  ChatGPT gets Reveries

12:37 Memory and new controls for ChatGPT

• ChatGPT is adding a new “memory” feature; “remembering” allows you to ask the bot to remember things you have chatted about with ChatGPT in the past. 
  •  So things like you love to travel, you have a daughter, etc.