In this bonus episode, co-host Joel  Parks sits down with his former colleague and fellow cloud expert Alicia Davis to chat through her experiences with cloud adoption, and proceed to cover a lot of ground on a host of other thoughts and topics that came to mind.

What does cloud native really mean, anyways?  The answer will help you massively in your journey to cloud.

The realities, benefits and drawbacks of a hybrid cloud, multi-cloud or single cloud approach.

How do you choose the right cloud for your team? Where do you go from there? And why does any of this even matter? This episode looks at how to structure your account and your teams to get up and running quickly, in a way that's going to work for your organisation.

Once you know where to get started with the cloud, how do you go about building the team? If you're in this situation, be patient and don't get discouraged. It's a huge shift, and it won't happen overnight, but these are the roles you should look towards as your key players.

The industry is becoming more receptive to cloud approaches and all indicators say more and more people are going down this path. But, where do you start in the world of cloud computing? Let's get into it.

Hosts Joel Parks and Jon Shanks make their formal (or, rather informal) introductions, and set the scene of what listeners can expect from Season 1 of Cloud Unplugged: A lighthearted look at all things cloud computing through the journey from ground zero to moving your first production workload into the cloud.

Cloud Unplugged takes a lighthearted and honest look at the who, what, when, where, why, how and OMGs of cloud computing.