0:00 Everyone was happy. But when we got acquired and then the integration came in, it took almost 9 months for us to move from AWS one account to another account.
0:18 Welcome to Day2 DevOps, where the Dev Oops is in the details. I'm Ned Belvant, and I'm joined by my copacetic co-host, Kyler Middleton.
0:30 Today we have a sponsored episode with Fluid Cloud and they're here to talk about multicloud and hybrid cloud portability.
0:42 Migrations can be painful. Even moving IAM policies can be difficult.
0:51 We'll talk with Fluid Cloud founders Sherad Kumar and Harshed Omar about easing that pain.
2:34 Story of previous company acquisition (Acurix) and the pain of cloud migration taking 9 months.
3:32 Research into migration pain points, ecosystem, and founding Fluid Cloud in August 2024.
4:01 Industry changes (BSL license, VMware acquisition, geopolitics) driving multicloud demand.
6:12 Differences between AWS, Azure, GCP APIs and complexity of multi-cloud knowledge.
6:53 Challenges with Terraform state files and lack of consolidation.
8:53 Discussion on vendor lock-in and difficulty leaving cloud providers.
10:01 Fluid Cloud compatibility scoring and mapping across cloud providers.
12:47 Example case: migration reduced from 8 weeks to 1 day for infrastructure.
13:30 Discovery and scanning speed improvements (100k resources in 60 seconds).
17:30 VMware pricing changes and motivation for migration.
19:19 Focus on infrastructure layer only (not app/data).
20:06 Automation of networking rules and IAM migration.
25:00 Example of automating 1500 users and 200 roles migration.
29:10 Explanation of landing zones and infrastructure cloning.
30:00 Analogy of cloud migration as moving water between bottles.
37:31 Redefining true multicloud vs just using multiple clouds.
38:16 Cloud sync feature for cross-cloud deployments.
41:37 Closing remarks and community links.
