AWS Insiders Podcast

AWS Insiders

AWS Insiders is a fast-paced, entertaining and insightful look behind the scenes of AWS and cloud computing. Hosts Rahul Subramaniam and Hilary Doyle dig into the current state and the future of AWS by talking with the people and companies that know it best. It’s a show full of opinions, takeaways, and untold stories about the challenges, innovations and the mind-blowing promise of cloud computing.

Hosted by Rahul Subramaniam and Hilary Doyle

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AWS Insiders: DHH Left the Cloud. You Shouldn't.
Season 2: Episode #4

DHH Left the Cloud. You Shouldn’t.

Featuring:

David Heinemeier Hansson

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals.

David Heinemeier Hansson is no stranger to controversy. But recently, the co-owner and CTO of 37 Signals, the software company behind Basecamp, announced his companies are divesting themselves of cloud technology. We find out why as well as what companies committed to staying on the cloud can learn from his story.

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AWS Insiders: Moderna, mRNA and AWS
Season 2: Episode #3

Moderna, mRNA and AWS

Featuring:

Carlos Peralta

Director of Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture at Moderna

Today, Moderna is a household name — but few people know the leading pharmaceutical and biotech company was born in the cloud. Join Rahul, Hilary, and Moderna’s Carlos Peralta (Director of Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture) to hear how Moderna’s lifesaving innovations depend on AWS and the cloud.

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AWS Insiders: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of IaC
Season 2: Episode #2

How to Avoid the Pitfalls of IaC

Featuring:

Kyle Brown

The CTO for the CIO at IBM and published author

IaC has been around for over a decade but has only recently become common practice, thanks to the growth and adoption of the cloud itself. Looking to tame their sprawling infrastructure, developers returned to what they were most comfortable with: code. But code comes with its own problems. When it comes to IaC, however, people just aren't talking about all the pitfalls and the best practices like they do with code.

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AWS Insiders: Filling the Cloud Talent Gap
Season 2: Episode #1

Filling the Cloud Talent Gap

Featuring:

Jared Reimer

CTO Cascadeo

David Brassor

Managing director and partner at Accenture

Staffing your cloud team with the right resources is probably one of the most critical steps right now, and also possibly one of the hardest. Rahul and Hilary speak with folks at both ends of the spectrum – Jarred Reimer of Cascadeo and David Brassor from Accenture – for solutions to finding, retaining and leveling up cloud talent.

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Season 2: Trailer

Season 2 is on its way!

AWS Insiders is back with season 2, launching April 17. Rahul and Hilary return to your ears with big names, top companies, and leading ideas from every aspect of the AWS world. They’ll dig deep into the stories and technology that matter to you most as an AWS customer. And they’ll be questioning assumptions, challenging ideas and of course, voicing strong opinions!

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Steven Woodward
Season 1: Episode #10

Do Datacenter Compliance Rules Belong In The Cloud?

Featuring:

Steven Woodward

CEO of Cloud Perspectives

In this episode, do old school compliance rules from the data center have any business in the new school cloud? Is compliance in the cloud really like some version of Die Hard or Mission Impossible? Making it hard for Tom Cruise, hanging by a thread, to steal your data? Rahul invites Steven Woodward, CEO of Cloud Perspectives, to debate the growing friction between physical and non-physical security and compliance rules.

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David Mee
Season 1: Episode #9

I Don’t Give A Lift And Shift

Featuring:

David Mee

Principal Consultant, Carbonite

In this episode, we are moving stacks. That’s right, bouncing, leaving the data center behind for a new life in the cloud. The only problem? You have to choose between two approaches. Do you wanna lift and shift (sounds very Schwarzenegger)? Or do you wanna go fully cloud native (sounds very… Marianne Williamson)? Rahul and David Mee, Principal Consultant, Carbonite, debate the merits of building a skyscraper on top of a log cabin.

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Season 1: Episode #8

Betrayed & Squeezed: Is AWS Eating Your Open Source Software?

Featuring:

Matt Asay

Vice President, Partner Marketing, MongoDB

In this episode: conflict, controversy, subterfuge, secrecy. Most people we approached didn’t even want to speak on the record. What we want to know is: is AWS eating up the open source landscape? And, if so, is that a good or bad thing? Rahul, Hilary, and guest Matt Asay debate whether AWS is poaching or playing fair when it comes to open-source software from partners.

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Season 1: Episode #7

High Availability vs Disaster Recovery: Fight!

Featuring:

Eamonn O'Neill

Co-Founder and CTO at Lemongrass

High availability is an expectation in business today — and Rahul shudders to think about what parents (and kids) would do if Disney Plus or Youtube went down for 15 minutes. Joking aside, it’s the cloud: so why all the focus on old, complex disaster recovery solutions?

In this episode, it’s High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery, and it’s Rahul vs. Eamonn O’Neill, a disaster recovery expert and Co-Founder and CTO of Lemongrass. This episode won’t be a disaster, but it is highly available on all podcast apps.

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Season 1: Episode #6

Serverless Is Here To Stay: Sorry, Corey Quinn

Featuring:

Jeremy Daly

CEO at Ampt

Rahul is getting pretty tired of people chirping about the unfulfilled promises of serverless. So he invited Jeremy Daly, host of the Serverless Chats podcast to set the record straight: “Corey is wrong,” says Rahul. Serverless is not going anywhere. It’s a journey, not an end goal. Tune in to hear the vibrant debate around just how far we’ve come from manual server management — and just how far we still have to go.

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Alex Hudson
Season 1: Episode #5

To Code Or Not To Code? Just Cloud API Instead!

Featuring:

Alex Hudson

Advisory CTO and Principal at Freeman Clarke

Steve Brain

Head of Technical Product & Portfolio CTO/EVP at Trilogy

Rahul says code no longer matters because it has such a short half-life. He is obsessed with cloud APIs instead. Says they are fully managed, more efficient and cheaper and they can help you get from a million lines of code down to 10 thousand per app. So Rahul invited Alex Hudson, CTO for hire, on the show to debate “to code or not to code.” That is this episode’s question.

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Season 1: Bonus Episode

Werner Vogels’ re:Invent Keynote Pulled us Into his Matrix Vision of The Future (Live from Las Vegas with StackHawk)

Featuring:

Dan Hopkins

VP of Engineering at Stackhawk

After Dr. Werner Vogels’ incredible re:Invent keynote where he talked about 3D design, data-informed simulation work and simplifying how to build, we got our podcast hosts Hilary and Rahul inviting Dan Hopkins, VP of Engineering at Stackhawk, to review on the Werner Matrix and wrap our coverage of this year’s conference.

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Alex Kearns
Season 1: Bonus Episode

Why Swami Sivasubramanian’s Data & Machine Learning Keynote so heavy on data, and so short on ML and AI at re:Invent (Live from Las Vegas with Inawisdom)

Featuring:

Alex Kearns

AWS Consultant at Inawisdom

Tuesday’s keynote from Swami Sivasubramanian - AWS VP of Data & Machine Learning, leaned much more into the “data” part than the “machine learning” part of his role.

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Jr Storment
Season 1: Bonus Episode

Adam Selipsky’s Re:Invent Keynote Left Us Wanting More (Live from Las Vegas, with the Finops Foundation)

Featuring:

JR Storment

Executive Director at FinOps Foundation

Joseph Daly

Director of Community at FinOps Foundation

Great explorers through history defined the theme of Adam Selipsky’s re:Invent Keynote this morning. But what caught Rahul and Hilary’s attention wasn’t what was being said, but what didn’t get explored on stage. Along with special guests J.R. Storment and Joe Daly from FinOps Foundation, they unpack Selipsky’s announcements, and dive into what they wish they’d also heard. Let us know what you think at podcast@cloudfix.com.

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Season 1: Bonus Episode

Our AWS Re:Invent Conference lookahead with AMD’s Brad Smith, Live from Las Vegas

Featuring:

Brad C. Smith

CVP at AMD

The Cloudfix Team is on prem at AWS’s massive re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and we’re bringing you along with us throughout the week. We start by with Rahul’s best predictions for what we can expect will be unveiled this week, and connect with AMD’s Brad Smith.

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Chase Cunningham
Season 1: Episode #4

Stop Hugging Those Servers!

Featuring:

Chase Cunningham

Chief Strategy Officer at Ericom Software

In this episode, the timely topic of real estate. What kind of a home do you want for your data, your stack, your instances? Where should you house your architecture? In a nice bare metal colo rack bungalow? Or maybe something a little more “penthouse fabulous” — something up in the… public cloud? Rahul makes the case to stop hugging servers altogether and go all-in on AWS, and pushback ensues when Chase Cunningham talks serious security and compliance.

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Carlisia Thompson
Season 1: Episode #3

Microservices? Or Macro Disaster?

Featuring:

Carlisia Thompson

Senior Member of Technical Staff, VMware Tanzu

Are microservices a macro disaster waiting to happen? Is the CNCF Landscape the Etsy of web development? Rahul has a serious thing against Kubernetes. Says it’s like playing tech whack-a-mole. So we went out and found a K8s superstar to defend the DIY open source platform’s honor. Carlisia Thompson joins to debate Rahul on dev culture, problem solving and vendor flexibility.

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Forrest Brazeal
Season 1: Episode #2

Commitment Issues: The Case Against Multicloud

Featuring:

Forrest Brazeal

Head of Developer Media, Google Cloud

Rahul and Hilary get into one of the great battles in the cloud: commitment issues. When it comes to your choice of cloud vendor, are you more Tinder or Match.com? Do you want to choose one vendor for life, or prefer to play the field with multicloud? Head of Developer Media at Google Cloud, Forrest Brazeal foresees the inevitable rise of multicloud while Rahul sticks to his single vendor, all-AWS guns.

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Season 1: Episode #1

Storage Wars: Database Edition

Featuring:

Ed Boyajian

CEO of EnterpriseDB

Rahul declared our old show boring, and in this episode he fixes that. Join Rahul as he welcomes new co-host Hilary Doyle, declares Moore’s Law dead as a doorknob, and enjoys a heated (but friendly) debate about NoSQL, Postgres, and the future of distributed and relational DB’s in the cloud. Today’s guest: Postgres expert Ed Boyajian, CEO of Enterprise DB.

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Meet your hosts

Rahul Subramaniam

Rahul Subramaniam

Host

Rahul is the Founder and CEO of CloudFix. Over the course of his career, Rahul has acquired and transformed 140+ software products in the last 13 years. More recently, he has launched revolutionary products such as CloudFix and DevFlows, which transform how users build, manage, and optimize in the public cloud.

Hilary Doyle

Hilary Doyle

Host

Hilary Doyle is the co-founder of Wealthie Works Daily, an investment platform and financial literacy-based media company for kids and families launching in 2022/23. She is a former print journalist, business broadcaster, and television writer and series developer working with CBC, BNN, CTV, CTV NewsChannel, CBC Radio, W Network, Sportsnet, TVA, and ESPN. Hilary is also a former Second City actor, and founder of CANADA’S CAMPFIRE, a national storytelling initiative.

Rahul Subramaniam

Rahul Subramaniam

Host

Rahul is the Founder and CEO of CloudFix. Over the course of his career, Rahul has acquired and transformed 140+ software products in the last 13 years. More recently, he has launched revolutionary products such as CloudFix and DevFlows, which transform how users build, manage, and optimize in the public cloud.

Hilary Doyle

Hilary Doyle

Host

Hilary Doyle is the co-founder of Wealthie Works Daily, an investment platform and financial literacy-based media company for kids and families launching in 2022/23. She is a former print journalist, business broadcaster, and television writer and series developer working with CBC, BNN, CTV, CTV NewsChannel, CBC Radio, W Network, Sportsnet, TVA, and ESPN. Hilary is also a former Second City actor, and founder of CANADA’S CAMPFIRE, a national storytelling initiative.