Ralph and Larry finally land their first guest of 2025 — Michael Geiser, AWS Ambassador and cloud migration specialist at Capgemini. Michael brings some much-needed AWS perspective to the show, walking through how he spun up a 300-team hackathon environment overnight using vibe-coded Python, why the AWS free tier is more generous than most people realize, and how the cloud’s security posture genuinely beats most on-prem setups whether people want to admit it or not. The conversation covers S3 as the perfect starting point for cloud newcomers, the emerging discipline of cloud-to-cloud migrations, the shrimp forks vs. sporks debate (AWS vs. Azure), and why repatriation back to on-prem usually means someone didn’t do the math right the first time. Oh, and Larry finally solves his MFA mystery. Links below: Cloud Talk Show on YouTube Michael Geiser’s Blog AWS Free Tier AWS Workshops Amazon S3 Amazon Bedrock AWS IAM Identity Center Capgemini