The Awesome AWS re:Invent Announcements Summary 1 Edition

In this episode, Kevin Derman and Russell Warne analyze various research on cloud usage across the world and compare it with what is happening in South Africa. How far behind is South Africa? 6 months? 12 months? 2 years? Take a listen to find out.

We are celebrating all the women in cloud technology this month. We interview Veliswa Boya, an AWS Cloud Hero, 3 times certified cloud architect, mother, mentor and more. We cover her journey to certification, career tips, exam advice, and how she balances it all. Veliswa's personality and positive attitude shines through in this interview.

We chat with Rick Braddy Founder and CTO of Buurst (Softnas) and former CTO of Citrix, about all things cloud storage and compare South Africa and Africa to what's being seen in North America.

In this episode we chat about the Local AWS Region in South Africa that has just gone live in April 2020. We discuss the benefits and what companies should be looking at doing with this awesome opportunity presented.

We delve into what businesses can do to remain active during this lock-down period. Many different cloud solutions are available that can ensure business continuity.

In this edition we chat to Nick Bradshaw, organiser and founder of the AI Africa Expo on what impact they saw from the expo last year and what people can expect from this years expo happening on the 4th and 5th of September.

In this episode we interview Geoff Brown, Managing Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Amazon Web Services. We get into the detail on how AWS is investing in South Africa and Africa as a whole, AWS technology for Africa and Geoff's experience so far during his time spent as leader of AWS in the region.

In this episode we speak to Carl Wallace, CEO of Digital HQ on why the made the choice to move from a local cloud provider to AWS, a hyperscale cloud and the results they experienced in the process.

In this episode we place our big bets for cloud for 2019. These are the top 5 areas where we think you will see major shift in 2019. Discussions include, local datacenters, AI, IoT, Blockchain (all the required buzzwords), payment granularity and more.

A key component of moving to the cloud is security. We catch up with Tau Mailula of Trend Micro and discuss some common pitfalls and what is required with cloud security. This interview was recorded at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.