Michael Geiser is back, and this time he comes bearing AWS credits — literally. Fresh off running a 310-team agentic AI hackathon at Capgemini, Michael breaks down how AWS service credits work, why they stack up faster than most people realize, and how the whole $19,000 hackathon infrastructure bill got covered without spending a dime. From there the conversation goes deep: EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate, why serverless containers can cut your compute costs by 30-50%, how AWS Q Developer upgraded a Java 8 Spring Boot app to modern standards in 60 minutes live, and what Amazon Bedrock’s multi-model abstraction layer means for teams trying to keep up with the velocity of AI releases. Ralph and Larry also revisit the eternal Windows licensing headache, debate the finer points of cloud architecture patterns, and Michael drops a teaser for his upcoming white paper on the six Rs of cloud-to-cloud migration.

Links below: Cloud Talk Show on YouTube Michael Geiser’s Site AWS Free Tier AWS Activate Credits (Startups) Amazon Bedrock AWS Q Developer Amazon ECS Amazon EKS AWS Fargate The 12-Factor App