The 2025 State of Cloud in Review

Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.
SHOW: 985
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #985 Transcript (docs.google.com/document/d/1niJI-5YamE-WBd-a47…)
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SHOW NOTES:
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/12/ai-cloud-trends-for-n…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/11/ai-cloud-trends-for-o…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/10/ai-cloud-trends-for-s…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/09/ai-cloud-trends-for-a…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/08/ai-cloud-trends-for-j…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/07/ai-cloud-trends-for-j…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/06/ai-cloud-trends-for-m…)(show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/05/ai-cloud-trends-for-a…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/04/ai-cloud-trends-for-m…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - FEB 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/03/cloud-ai-news-trends-…) (show)
• CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JAN 2025 (thecloudcast.net/2025/02/the-cloudcast-895-clo…) (show)
2025 CLOUD YEAR IN REVIEW
• Cloud of the year
• Cloud concept of the year (non-AI)
• Cloud memory of the year
• Cloud revenues in 2025
• Are NeoClouds in the hyperscaler discussion?
• Was Cloud (circa 2007) the actual downfall of Intel? (Cloud vs Mobile choice)
• Rank the clouds, end of 2025 (cloud draft 2025)
• Do outages matter if they are only once a year?
• Where does AWS go next?
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