A few more days and 2013 is history. The big events for the year must include the IPO of Twitter, the unusual valuation of Pinterest and Snapchat, and the increasing velocity of Big Data and cloud adoption into the mainstream. I read this article in The Guardian, where Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, predicts four cloud computing trends for 2014. With the pioneering work at Amazon in cloud computing via its AWS stack, who better than Vogels to see the future? He says that despite all the amazing innovation we have already seen over the last seven years in cloud computing, we are still at day one. I also had the chance to listen to him at IBC 2013 Amsterdam last September. Here are his four trends.