AWS for Software Companies Podcast

If you're betting on agentic AI, hear directly from the builders navigating the challenges, innovating pricing models, and creating the coming reality where every employee manages thousands of agents.
Topics Include:
Four panelists represent the full AI stack: build, run, secure, monitor.
Agentic AI moved faster than anyone predicted just 18 months ago.
Writer AI's no-code agent builder missed both its target personas entirely.
Non-technical users now just prompt agents instead of building workflows.
Fireworks AI processes over ten trillion tokens daily across open models.
DeepSeek's Christmas release tripled Fireworks' capacity needs almost overnight.
Okta identified agent identity as a security problem from day one.
91% of organizations are already using AI agents in some capacity.
Datadog evolved naturally from dashboards to autonomous investigative agents.
Bits.ai agents now diagnose production incidents before engineers wake up.
Trust requires explainability — black-box agents stall enterprise adoption cold.
Human-in-the-loop remains essential; risk tolerance varies wildly by organization.
Writer AI compressed a four-month retail workflow down to one week.
Multi-provider inference consistency is one of the hardest unsolved infrastructure problems.
Agentic pricing models are fundamentally broken for enterprise budget planning today.
Agents managing agents means every employee becomes a manager of thousands.
POC data gaps are the most underrated blocker to production deployment.
Security must be designed in from the start — retrofitting is painful.
Build evaluations first so you know if you're actually improving anything.
Find your uniquely differentiated data and build your agentic bet there.

Participants:
Yannick Guillerm – Regional Manager, Sales Engineering, Datadog
Ray Thai – Director of Product Management, Fireworks AI
Andrew Yu – Vice President of Engineering, Okta
Matan-Paul Shetrit – Director of Product Management, Writer AI
Moderator: Carol Potts – General Manager, North America ISV Sales, AWS

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Asana CPO Arnab Bose breaks down how AI agents are transforming collaborative work management with multiplayer AI teammates that any team member can coach and correct.
Topics Include:
Asana is a collaborative work management platform used by 170,000+ companies worldwide.
The "Pyramid of Clarity" connects individual tasks all the way up to company strategy.
Asana's "work graph" maps tasks, teams, projects, and portfolios in one connected system.
Generative AI now converts unstructured data like emails into structured project plans.
Asana integrates directly with AWS, Gemini, and Claude to automate that conversion.
AI Teammates are first-party agents that take on and complete tasks inside Asana.
These agents work in multiplayer mode — visible, collaborative, and team-correctable.
A third AI unlock is coming: letting any external agent builder plug into Asana's interface.
Asana runs entirely on AWS, including a new FedRAMP moderate GovCloud deployment.
AWS Marketplace listings help customers transact faster using existing AWS credits.
Arnab advises startups to bet on AWS long-term rather than chasing short-term LLM trends.
His 2026 prediction: multi-agent orchestration standards will be the enterprise AI battleground.

Participants:
Arnab Bose – Chief Product Officer, Asana

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Discover how Detectify's hacker-DNA culture, multi-account AWS architecture, and Claude Code on Bedrock helped a lean security team deliver zero-day protection to customers before they even knew they needed it.
Topics Include:
Haris Kabiljagić leads cloud operations, data, and scanning at Detectify.
Detectify started in 2013 as a group of ethical hackers in Stockholm.
The platform continuously scans customers' attack surfaces for exploitable vulnerabilities.
A global community of elite ethical hackers feeds real-world payloads into the engine.
Early on, a centralized cloud team caused over 40 service disruptions monthly.
A multi-account AWS strategy via Control Tower eliminated disruptions entirely.
The hardest part of decentralizing wasn't technology — it was the culture shift.
Cloud ops had to evolve from gatekeepers into enablers of secure, fast deployment.
Detectify's architecture runs on three pillars: scalability, event-driven services, and security.
MSK and Amazon MQ replaced self-hosted RabbitMQ, enabling true event-driven microservices.
AWS Security Hub provides a single pane of glass for security posture visibility.
When the CAPS zero-day hit, Detectify delivered a live test to customers same day.
Customers logged in braced for panic — and found the threat was already handled.
AI-assisted development via Claude Code on Bedrock accelerated code migration 30x.
The team moved from five modules per week to 150, without sacrificing review quality.
Success is now measured by speed of remediation, not volume of vulnerabilities found.
A new internal scanner lets customers protect applications before they ever reach production.
Detectify's roadmap: make security effortlessly native inside the pipelines teams already use.

Participants:
Haris Kabiljagić - Head of Developer Services, Detectify
Johan Broman – EMEA ISV, Head of Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services

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Dynatrace's Chief Technology Strategist Alois Reitbauer explains how AI-powered observability is moving beyond monitoring to autonomously fixing software issues — and why the best AI doesn't replace human judgment, it sharpens it.
Topics Include:
Dynatrace helps global enterprise companies observe, optimize, and protect their software.
The platform goes beyond monitoring — it takes automated action to fix issues.
Business observability connects technical data to real-world operational decisions.
Dynatrace has been investing in AI for 14 years, starting with root cause analysis.
AI eliminates human confirmation bias when diagnosing critical system failures.
Generative AI now enables Dynatrace to propose and implement code-level fixes.
AI works best augmenting humans — like a GPS, not an autopilot.
The Dynatrace-AWS partnership began with aligning on a shared long-term vision.
Joint engineering calls and shared roadmaps made the two teams feel like one.
Dynatrace experienced Amazon's famous silent document-reading meeting culture firsthand.
Good partnerships require honesty, investment, and knowing when to say no.
AI is maturing from an efficiency play toward genuine human augmentation.

Participants:
Alois Reitbauer – Chief Technology Strategist, Dynatrace

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Vercel's VP of Engineering Lindsey Simon unpacks how AI is transforming web deployment — from self-driving infrastructure and automatic rollbacks to prompt-to-app magic and what coding will look like by 2027.
Topics Include:
Vercel turns a simple git push into a live URL, fast
Customers range from solo indie devs to major enterprises globally
Under Armour, Reuters, and Polymarket all run on Vercel's platform
AI agents can detect failed deployments and automatically suggest fixes
Vercel calls this approach "self-driving infrastructure" — a post-AI evolution
The AI SDK lets developers write model-agnostic code across any provider
V0 lets anyone generate a full app just by typing a prompt
The AI Gateway provides intelligent model fallbacks and cost efficiency
Vitamins vs. painkillers: Vercel only builds what customers genuinely need
AI works best when code has structure, types, and tests already in place
AWS Bedrock helped Vercel scale V0 when it went unexpectedly viral
Vercel's AI philosophy: "let it rip" — with smart guardrails around data
Weekly "Demo Days" put every engineer in front of 200 colleagues to present
Design is a company-wide discipline, from product UI to office signage
A new AWS integration makes provisioning Aurora and DynamoDB just a few clicks

Participants:
Lindsey Simon – Vice President of Engineering, Vercel

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