Paul and Paul Podcast

AWS Migration Acceleration Program helps customers offset the cost of migrating to the cloud and accelerating their business outcomes. We cover some of the benefits, prerequisites, and common questions around how MAP works. While it’s not a fully comprehensive deep dive on the topic, we wanted to address some of the common questions we hear from customers and partners, as they explore MAP and how it can help drive migration success. As always, let us know if you have ideas for future episodes, and what you’d like to hear us talk about! Paul Papasavvas -⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-papasavvas/ Paul Varnedoe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvarnedoe/

Our guest today is one of our CSM colleagues, Rohit Chaudhari, and he joins us to discuss the Product Operating Model. If your company is struggling with bringing products to market faster and scaling more effectively, then incorporating a Product Operating Model could be the solution. We talked with Rohit about some of the key points including:1/ Demystifying the Product Operating Model and the value of the Product Manager role2/ How the Product Operating Model creates speed and efficiency for businesses at scale3/ The intersection of the Product Operating Model with Agile and Cloud Adoption, and4/ How to get started with your product journeyYou can find Rohit on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-chaudhariAs always, let us know if you have ideas for future episodes, and what you’d like to hear us talk about!Paul Papasavvas - ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-papasavvas/Paul Varnedoe -https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvarnedoe/

We had a terrific conversation with Chris Hennesey, who is an Enterprise Financial Strategist for AWS, talking about the challenges many enterprises face in managing their costs and structuring their operations to most effectively leverage what the Cloud has to offer. When people hear “Cloud Financial Management,” they may think of accounting or finance centric processes. However, with the cloud, almost all areas of IT, finance, and business operations contribute to sound financial practices. Chris shared his insights gained from helping hundreds of customers, expanding on the challenges they face, and some of the strategies and considerations enterprises can take to improve their cloud financial management. You can reach Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishennesey/ Information on his re:Invent session: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7122300097773596674/ As always, let us know if you have ideas for future episodes, and what you’d like to hear us talk about! Paul Papasavvas -⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-papasavvas/ Paul Varnedoe - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvarnedoe/

We had a fun conversation with our colleague Sino Yousef, discussing what it means to be a cloud mature enterprise, and some of the key practices that these organizations follow in order to be successful. We dove in on 1/ Leadership Imperative - Senior leadership attention and advocacy 2/ Agile Execution - Avoiding Analysis Paralysis - Fail Fast 3/ IT Operations & Skills Enablement 4/ Measuring Success - Continual Improvement - Cloud Center of Excellence Sino's blog on the topic: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/how-cloud-mature-enterprises-succeed/ You can also reach Sino on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sino-yousef/ As always, let us know if you have ideas for future episodes, and what you’d like to hear us talk about! Paul Papasavvas - ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-papasavvas/ Paul Varnedoe -https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvarnedoe/

Today we discuss things you should plan for in a cloud migration. What are some of the considerations you need to think about in order to meet your goals, and to avoid common pitfalls and challenges. The areas we focus on are: 1/ Meeting cost objectives 2/ Setting up your organization to successfully operate in the cloud more efficiently, and 3/ Properly plan for setting up your security posture There's a lot of useful information for customers who are in the early stages of cloud adoption, and anyone who is in the business of helping enterprises to plan for and execute a migration. Here are some links to the topics we discussed today: Cloud Adoption Framework - https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/ Migration Readiness Assessment - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-readiness/process.html Security, AWS Shared Responsibility Model - https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/ As always, let us know if you have ideas for future episodes, and what you'd like to hear us talk about! Paul Papasavvas - ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-papasavvas/ Paul Varnedoe -https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvarnedoe/