#745: Accelerating Cloud Migration: How Occidental Petroleum Transformed with Terraform and AFT
From AWS Podcast by Amazon Web Services
November 10, 2025 · 20 min
About this episode
The episode discusses Occidental Petroleum's cloud migration journey using Terraform and AFT to enhance automation and scalability.
This episode features a deep dive into Occidental Petroleum’s cloud migration journey, emphasizing automation and scalability. Brian Moore, a Cloud Architect at Occidental Petroleum, discusses how they used Terraform and AFT to streamline account provisioning, manage complex network architectures, and improve operational efficiency. The conversation reveals lessons on organizational change, the importance of source-controlled infrastructure, and how automation tools like Terraform and Control Tower can transform traditional IT workflows into agile, resilient systems.
People in this episode
Guest: Brian Moore
Topics covered
- cloud migration
- automation
- scalability
- infrastructure
- operational efficiency
- organizational change
Keywords
- cloud migration
- Terraform
- AFT
- automation
- operational efficiency
- infrastructure
- Control Tower
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Occidental Petroleum
Products: Terraform, AFT, Control Tower
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