AWS Insiders

Over the last 16 years, CloudFix has analyzed over a billion dollars of AWS spending. Having looked at so many different AWS bills, we’ve learned a lot of lessons about how to get the most out of each dollar, from storage, to networking, to compute – and in today’s episode, Rahul is sharing these lessons. He’ll even analyze Hilary Doyle’s AWS bill from her start up, Wealthie Works Daily, to see how she can get the most out of her AWS spend. 

Formula 1 races have always been intense, with drivers reaching speeds over 200 mph on the track. But fans wanted to see closer racing and more overtaking – so F1 Lead Cloud Architect Ryan Kirk had a challenge ahead of him in designing a new F1 car. Hear how he and the F1 cloud team used the supercomputing power of AWS to overcome massive aerodynamic forces to speed up the design process and the race itself. 

Right from the start, Netflix understood the potential of the cloud and embraced AWS. But this wasn’t just one company using another’s services. There was a deep collaboration between Netflix and AWS that literally helped shape AWS and its services. We’ll hear the detailed, behind the scenes story of how Netflix helped make AWS from Adrian Cockcroft, tech adviser, former Netflix cloud architect and former AWS VP of Sustainability Architecture.

Amazon invented a holiday that’s now one of the biggest international shopping days in the world: Prime Day. What powers it and how do they use AWS? We take you behind the scenes with AWS’s own Vice President and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr to talk millions of requests per second, billions of products sold, and demands on AWS that keep getting bigger each year. 

AI is much more than ChatGPT — and this week, we're diving into all things AWS and Artificial Intelligence. Join us as we go behind the scenes (and beyond the hype) with an exclusive interview with Ankur Mehrotra, general manager at AWS Machine Learning. We’ll also speak with analyst Benedict Evans about the bigger picture around AI and the future of business.