Direct from Las Vegas re:Invent, we cover some of the announcements from Andy Jassy's keynote. Hear about what was released in the new database functionality, many machine learning announcements, security and more.

In this episode Kevin and Russell, AWS re:Invent veterans, share their top 10 tips on how to ensure you have a great and productive re:Invent. The conference starts 25th November in Las Vegas and is the year highlight in the AWS world.

In this, the second episode that looks at interesting "born in the cloud" startups, we chat to Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi, a cloud platform that aims to solve Africa's toughest challenges using machine learning and AI. A fascinating discussion and a great idea.

In this episode we speak to ALEXANDRE N'DJORE CEO of the Digitech Group and recent winner of the AWS Startup Day pitching competition and one of the Top-10 startups in Africa. Find out how they have used cloud to accelerate their business and compete at a global level, and decoupled the customer outcome from the technology the customer is using.

In this episode we dive a bit deeper into some of the differences between on-premise and cloud. We cover some cloud terminology equivalents, enabling you to be comfortable at any dinner party where cloud is the topic of the day.

In this episode we cover the 7R's of cloud migration. What?? You thought there were only 6 R's? Well, we introduce you to our suggested 7th R to complete the list and to keep up with current trends of cloud computing.

In this episode we take a few steps back and go through some cloud basics like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The benefits and risks are examined, as well as great analogy with Pizza as a Service thrown in for good measure. If you are looking at moving to cloud or are new to the cloud environment, this episode is for you.

In this episode we speak to three women (Lisa Strydom, Catherine Luckoff, and Monique Hart) working in cloud technology in South Africa. They share with us their journey to careers in technology and provide some practical advice for anyone wanting to get into the IT field and in particular the cloud.

In this episode Russell Warne, Certified Cloud Cost Optimisation Expert, explains the similarity between the cloud and pies. This is no "Pie in the Sky" analogy. Russell and Kevin get into the details of why cloud spend gets out of control and what you can do to bring order to the natural state of entropy that occurs.

In this episode we chat about running Microsoft workloads on AWS. We cover some interesting facts about the two cloud giants, what workloads you can run, how the licensing works and so much more. all in under 20min.