AWS for Software Companies Podcast

AWS for Software Companies Podcast

Stay current on new cloud trends. Top software companies, respected industry analysts, and experienced consultants join Amazon Web Services leaders to talk about the cloud topics that matter to you—including the latest in AI, migration, Software-as-a-Service, and more. We produce new episodes regularly.

Episodes

August 1, 2025 13 mins

Justin DiPietro, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Glia, shares how they are leveraging AI to enhance the customer experience in the highly regulated world of financial institutions.

Topics Include:

  • Glia provides voice, digital, and AI services for customer-facing and internal operations
  • Built on "channel-less architecture" unlike traditional contact centers that added channels sequentially
  • One interaction can mov...
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Ed Bailey, Field CISO at Cribl, shares how Cribl and AWS are helping customers rethink their data strategy by making it easier to modernize, reduce complexity, and unlock long-term flexibility.

Topics Include:

  • Ed Bailey introduces topic: bridging gap between security data requirements and budget
  • Companies face mismatch: 10TB data needs vs 5TB licensing budget constraints
  • Data volumes growing exponentially while budgets rem...
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Sam Johnson, Chief Customer Officer of Jamf, discusses the implementation of AI built on Amazon Bedrock that is a gamechanger in helping Jamf’s 76,000+ customers scale their device management operations.

Topics Include:

  • Sam Johnson introduces himself as Chief Customer Officer from Jamf company
  • Jamf's 23-year mission: help organizations succeed with Apple device management
  • Company manages 33+ million devices for 76,000+ cus...
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Mark Stevens, SVP, Channels and Alliances, discusses how SecurityScorecard's strategic partnership with AWS enables them to scale their security solutions through cloud infrastructure, marketplace integration, and co-sell programs

Topics Include:

  • SecurityScorecard founded 10 years ago to understand third-party vendor security posture
  • Company has grown to 3,000 enterprise customers and 200+ partners globally
  • Evolved from ra...
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Chief Product Development Officer Mitchell Johnson discusses how Sonatype protects enterprise developers from malicious open source components while keeping them productive through AI.

Topics Include:

  • Sonatype provides software supply chain solutions for enterprises using open source components
  • They serve large enterprises, government agencies, and critical infrastructure providers globally
  • Main challenge: keeping develope...
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Founder and CTO Alex Rice discusses how HackerOne uses generative AI to automate security workflows and prioritizing accuracy over efficiency to achieve end-to-end outcomes.

Topics Include:

  • HackerOne uses ethical hackers and AI to find vulnerabilities before criminals
  • White hat hackers stress test systems to identify security weaknesses proactively
  • Generative AI plays a huge role in HackerOne's security operations
  • Security ...
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Spencer Herrick, Principal AI Product Manager of Asana and Oliver Myers of AWS demonstrate how their integration allows Asana's AI workflows to access enterprise data from Amazon Q Business, enabling seamless cross-application automation and insights.

Topics Include:

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Chief Product Officer Dan Brown explains how Celonis creates digital twins of business processes to power AI agents that automate operational improvements.

Topics Include:

  • Dan Brown introduces Celonis as the thought leader in process mining for over a decade.
  • Celonis serves largest global companies across all industries seeking operational improvements.
  • Companies have process diagrams but actual operations differ significa...
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AWS partners Automation Anywhere, Qlik, and Vectra.ai discuss revolutionizing customer experience through generative AI, sharing real-world implementations in automation, analytics, and cybersecurity applications.

Topics Include:

  • AWS Technology Partnerships panel on agentic AI implementation
  • Three AWS partners share real-world AI deployment experiences
  • Automation Anywhere automates end-to-end business processes with agent...
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Zak Krider, Trellix's Director of Strategy and AI, shares how Trellix has successfully integrated generative AI into their security operations and democratized access to AI models across the organization.

Topics Include:

  • Trellix formed from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye merger
  • Provides full security stack visibility in single platform
  • Serves SMBs to Fortune 500 and government customers
  • Used machine learning for two decades ...
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NVIDIA’s Global Head of Partnerships & Cloud for Startups, Jen Hoskins, details their collaboration with AWS to support over 25,000 startups through their Inception program.

Topics Include:

  • AI transformation happening across all industries and verticals
  • NVIDIA evolved from GPU company to full-stack AI solutions
  • Accelerated computing requires complete stack re-engineering from chip up
  • Traditional CPU scaling has reached ...
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Matt “Kix” Kixmoeller, Chief Marketing Officer of Glean, shares how Glean partners with AWS to deploy secure, scalable AI solutions that help companies move from basic productivity tools to transformative business intelligence.

Topics Include:

  • Introduction to Glean
  • Glean targets Global 2000 companies for AI transformation
  • Enterprise AI needs company context: data, people, processes
  • Bottom-up approach: deploy to all employee...
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Kui Jia, Sumo Logic's Vice President of Engineering and Head of AI, shares how their AWS-powered AI agents transform chaotic security investigations into streamlined workflows.

Topics Include:

  • Kui Jia leads AI Engineering at Sumo Logic
  • SREs and SOC analysts work under chaotic, high-pressure conditions
  • Teams constantly switch between different vendor tools and platforms
  • Investigation requires quick hypothesis formation and c...
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Wilson Patton, Solutions Architect for Trellix, demonstrates how their four-pillar Gen-AI framework transforms incident alerts into actionable intelligence.

Topics Include:

  • Wilson Patton: Trellix Solutions Architect, 20 years government experience
  • Witnessed evolution from basic firewalls to zero trust architectures
  • Trellix combines McAfee and FireEye heritage and capabilities
  • AI integration isn't new - machine learning embe...
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Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, explores how harnessing AI — in addition to reshaping teams and workflows — accelerates the product development lifecycle. He also shares insight into how Miro is embracing new technology and ways of working to transform its Innovation Workspace.

Topics Include:

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  • Miro serves 250,000+ customers with 90+ million knowledge wor...
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Andrea Malagodi, CTO of Sonar, discusses how the company successfully transitioned from on-premise to SaaS, leveraging AWS partnership and maintaining focus on developer-centric code quality and security solutions.

Topics Include:

  • Andrea Malagodi is CTO of Sonar, guest on podcast
  • Sonar founded 16+ years ago by three software engineers
  • Founders wanted to help developers understand code quality issues
  • Focus on giving develope...
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Kanaiya Vasani, Chief Product Officer, explains how ExtraHop leverages AWS services and generative AI to help enterprise customers address the growing security challenges of uncontrolled AI adoption.

Topics Include:

  • ExtraHop reinventing network detection and response category
  • Platform addresses security, performance, compliance, forensic use cases
  • Behavioral analysis identifies potential security threats in infrastructure
  • N...
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Cribl’s Field CISO Ed Bailey discusses how customers can manage the quality and quantity of data by providing intelligent controls between data sources and destinations.

Topics Include:

  • Cribl company name origin
  • Company helps organizations screen data to find valuable insights
  • Ed Bailey was Cribl's first customer back in 2018
  • Data growth of 25% yearly created seven-figure cost increases
  • CEOs and CIOs complained about explosi...
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Saviynt Co-Founder Amit Saha discusses how their AWS partnership has enabled the identity security company to deliver comprehensive identity protection while minimizing organizational friction.

Topics Include:

  • Saviynt is leading identity security provider in market
  • Secures human, non-human, workforce, and privileged access identities
  • Eliminates friction while automating organizational access management processes
  • Biggest cha...
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Chief Architect Russell Leighton discusses how Panther's cloud platform revolutionizes security operations by treating detections as Python code and AI enabled alert vetting turning responses from hours into minutes. 

Topics Include:

  • Panther is a cloud security monitoring tool (cloud SIEM)
  • Works at massive scale, more cost-effective than legacy systems
  • Key differentiator: "detections as code" written in Python
  • Brings s...
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