AWS re:Invent 2025 - Navigate multicloud with AWS: Essential foundations for success (HMC101)

Watch	Topic	Details
YouTube	Voice of Customer Feedback	Customers adopt multi-cloud strategies for flexibility, standardization on open source, and best-of-breed AI services. Motivations for multi-cloud include serving customers where they are, avoiding lock-in, regulatory requirements, and executive guidance.
YouTube	Multi-Cloud Readiness Framework	A structured approach to guide customers through multi-cloud adoption. Framework touches upon different layers from enterprise strategy to architecture, AI, and more.
YouTube	Deployment Models	Discrete: Workloads in different clouds operate independently. Integrated: Workloads in multiple clouds interface with each other. Flexible: Environment is agnostic to the underlying cloud supporting the workload.
YouTube	Best Practices and AWS Capabilities	Enterprise Strategy: Rationalize investment, define multi-cloud strategy as policy, and automate it. Foundations: Prioritize security, apply consistent policies, and adopt unified observability and FinOps practices. Architecture: Standardize on cloud-agnostic architectural principles and leverage the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Data and AI: Implement guardrails, capacity planning, and data lineage tracking. Consider data mesh architecture for democratization.
YouTube	AWS Capabilities	Discrete Level: Hands-on workshops, standardization on industry practices, and AWS services for centralized operations. Integrated Level: Adopt standards like FOCUS, use multi-cloud FinOps dashboard, and build multi-cloud CCOE. Flexible Level: Evaluate internal developer portals, abstraction layers, and industry-specific best practices.
YouTube	Key Takeaways	Strategy should be determined by business needs, not services or technology. AWS provides consultancy at no cost to help navigate multi-cloud environments. Next steps include attending multi-cloud sessions at Reinvent, visiting the multi-cloud kiosk, and leveraging executive briefings.

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Is your organization operating in a multicloud environment? Drawing from thousands of executive and builder engagements, we will cut through the noise with practical guidance to help you succeed with your multicloud strategy. In this session, we will describe the AWS multicloud approach that aims to help you build multicloud capabilities across People, Process and Technology pillars. You will learn how to build a business case-driven multicloud strategy, establishing centralized management and oversight of your multicloud environment and architectural best practices for multicloud.

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