Convert2RHEL Live at AWS reInvent | RHEL Presents Ep. 70

Episode 70 was a rare one for us: Nate and I were live and in person, sitting right next to each other on the show floor at AWS re:Invent. It’s only about the second time that’s happened on RHEL Presents, and we spent two months getting set up to broadcast from the booth. We talk about what Red Hat brought to the event with our AWS partners, and we pulled in Stu Miniman, a senior director on the OpenShift side and a re:Invent veteran, to give us the lay of the land from the keynotes and the floor.

A few things worth carrying away from the conversation:

• Doing the show live and in person is a whole different animal. Nate and I are usually remote, so being trapped together in a booth for the week made for a looser, more conference-flavored episode than our usual studio setup.
• re:Invent is the Super Bowl for our industry, and Red Hat shows up for it. Stu has been to nearly every re:Invent, and he framed just how big the partnership footprint has become, from customers to practitioners to years of executive interviews at the show.
• Convert2RHEL is the throughline for meeting people where they are. The reason we were on that floor was to talk about moving existing Linux workloads onto RHEL, especially on AWS, without a full rebuild.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to run the show from a conference floor, this one captures the chaos and the fun of it.