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AWS Insiders Podcast

AWS Insiders was a fast-paced, entertaining and insightful look behind the scenes of AWS and cloud computing. Rahul Subramaniam hosted it, digging into the state and the future of AWS with the people and companies that know it best.

Archive AWS Insiders ran from 2022 to 2023. Episodes and transcripts are kept here for reference.

All 25 episodes.

Newest first · 2 seasons

  1. Who Wants to Save a Billion Dollars?

    Over the last 16 years, CloudFix has analyzed over a billion dollars of AWS spending.

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  2. How AWS Speeds up Formula 1

    Formula 1 races have always been intense, with drivers reaching speeds over 200 mph on the track.

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  3. When Netflix Bet On AWS

    Right from the start, Netflix understood the potential of the cloud and embraced AWS.

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  4. Behind the Scenes at Prime Day with AWS

    Amazon invented a holiday that’s now one of the biggest international shopping days in the world: Prime Day.

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  5. The Future of AI and AWS

    AI is much more than ChatGPT, and this week, we're diving into all things AWS and Artificial Intelligence.

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  6. The Price Is Wrong: How to Save on AWS

    CloudFix has deciphered hundreds of thousands of AWS bills, and can sniff out problems, suggest solutions and improve cost optimization.

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  7. Moderna, mRNA and AWS

    Today, Moderna is a household name, but few people know the leading pharmaceutical and biotech company was born in the cloud.

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  8. How to Avoid the Pitfalls of IaC

    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

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  9. Filling the Cloud Talent Gap

    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.

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  10. Season 2 is on its way!

    AWS Insiders is back with season 2, launching April 17.

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  11. I Don’t Give A Lift And Shift

    That’s right, bouncing, leaving the data center behind for a new life in the cloud.

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  12. High Availability vs Disaster Recovery: Fight!

    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 Av

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  13. Serverless Is Here To Stay: Sorry, Corey Quinn

    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

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

    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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  15. Stop Hugging Those Servers!

    In this episode, the timely topic of real estate.

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  16. Commitment Issues: The Case Against Multicloud

    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

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