AWS Executive Insights

Building a security culture starts in the C-suite. While this is championed by the CISO, every business and technical leader has a role in communicating and practicing good security behavior across their teams. Steve Schmidt, CISO for AWS Security, shares his best practices and approaches for driving the right behaviors related to proactive security posture, the impact security has on the bottom l...

Netflix is a company that believes in invention and reinvention. Vernā Myers, Netflix's VP of Inclusion Strategy shares some of the secrets behind Netflix's culture, addressing the importance of having the courage to break new ground, how the company approaches diversity, inclusion, and equity, and why curiosity is one of the most important traits to creating an inclusive culture.

Amazon strives to maintain a Day 1 culture and operating model that is curious, scrappy, and customer-obsessed, embracing new trends and making high-quality decisions at speed. By contrast, a Day 2 mentality focuses on business goals over earning customer trust, breeds complexity and hierarchy, and lets process become a substitute for the right results, leading to stasis and organizational decline...

Sheri Rhodes, the CIO of Workday, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to discuss collaboration and leading change. Leading the internal deployment of Workday, transforming how teams operate, and collaborating with other leaders resulted in a variety of learnings. Listen in to hear how Sheri has navigated the change, led her teams, and what advice she recommends for other leaders.

How does a CEO change their mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and the lessons he learned.

Su Shan Tan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS, discusses customer-centered innovation, changing the company's culture, and celebrating failure.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Bryan Landerman tackle the question: "Is there a one-size fits all cloud strategy?". Leaders wonder, can I use a per-defined or templatized cloud adoption strategy? Can something like this exist? Listen in to hear Jake, Ishit, and Bryan answer these questions and share their advice for leaders as they begin their AWS Cloud jou...

Ron Huxter, the VP and CIO of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) sits down to share the surprising benefits they observed following migration.

Louise Higgins, CFO of Technology at ANZ Bank, shares her perspective on the critical role of the CFO in leading major cultural change and earning trust with stakeholders.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani address a common leadership question, "Is there an order to transformation, migration, and modernization?". Leaders often ask which step is the right one to take first for their organization - migrate then transform and modernize, modernize then transform and migrate, or something else?

The ability to think, plan, and execute in a clinical fashion is the key to realizing transformation. More now than ever, organizations need to rapidly and accurately assess situations, experiment quickly, and scale up with relative ease to keep pace with market changes. Rob shares how the dynamic of racing prepared Formula 1 for the race schedule disruptions and their business response.

In these continually change times, it’s not surprising that AI and ML, widely recognized for its problem-solving and predictive prowess, have become an essential navigational tool for many organizations. Listen in as Swami shares how customers are embracing machine learning and AI in the wake of COVID-19 to scale customer communications, increase agility and efficiency, and help get people back to...

Disruption can produce chaos, making it more challenging to prioritize and take action. However, despite the challenges that governments and businesses are facing, this crisis has been the catalyst for much-needed transformation. It’s provided organizations a value- and mission-driven approach to take the appropriate action to support their employees and customers. During this discussion, Teresa w...

Amanda Jobbins, the Chief Marketing Officer at Infor, shares how shes planning to get the organization’s industry-specific cloud solutions in front of more customers.

Roland Scharrer, the Group CTIO at AXA, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to talk about leadership, innovation, and the benefits of agility.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani close the loop on governance. Listen in as they debate the need for a Cloud Center of Excellence and when to bring that team in during migration.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Bryan Landerman continue diving into the concept of governance, and how it relates to leading a cloud migration. There are recommended concepts to think about when leading your organization through migration, but the strategies will vary based on your choices.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani discuss governance and one way vs two way door decisions. During a large transformation, leaders will be faced with many decisions, some are reversible and some are not. Listen in as they discuss how to prepare an organization to make these decisions and determine if governance is a one-way or two-way door deci...

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Phil Le-Brun discuss Phil's blog: Experiment More, Fail Less. "Fail fast and fail often" is a quote often used by Phil, but one not everyone agrees on. Listen in as they share their thoughts on the subject and the importance of creating an environment for experimentation.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani cover why being data driven is so important, what exactly does it mean, and how you can become a data driven organization. Listen in to hear more.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani continue their conversation about leading a migration and the option of outsourcing a project with the AWS Cloud. Listen is as they talk about the importance of being intentional about decisions and having a strategy that supports the direction you are trying to go. When you are intentional, and have a thoughtf...

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani address a common question they get from customers: "Should I outsource my migration to the AWS Cloud via consultants or try to use my own team?". Listen in as they talk about the pros and cons of each approach, their personal experience, and best practices of AWS customers.

Mario Thomas from AWS sits down with Joseph Daly, Director of Cloud Optimization Services, Nationwide, to discuss Nationwide’s journey of innovative cloud financial management to ensure efficiency and accountability.

Joe Foster, the Cloud Computing Program Manager for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, joins us to share how he lead his organization through a rapid cloud adoption. Listen in as Joe explains how he supports varying customers, and organizational needs, at NASA.

Ian Wilson, the VP of HR for AWS, joins the podcast to share his insights on AWS' response to COVID-19. Listen in as he and AWS Enterprise Strategist, Jake Burns, talk about how AWS responded, how they are currently leading the organization, what is top of mind as things change, and advice on how he is planning for the future.