Make Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Portability a Reality With FluidCloud (Sponsored)

Why It Matters

By turning months‑long cloud migrations into days and providing upfront compatibility insights, Fluid Cloud empowers enterprises to avoid lock‑in, cut costs, and respond swiftly to regulatory or market shifts.

Key Takeaways

• Fluid Cloud automates multi‑cloud migrations, cutting weeks to days.
• Compatibility scoring reveals hidden service incompatibilities before migration begins.
• Platform maps 140+ cloud services, handling most enterprise workloads.
• Scans 100k resources in ~60 seconds, far faster than CSPM tools.
• Enables intra‑cloud region moves for cost optimization and sovereign compliance.

Summary

The sponsored Day2 DevOps episode introduces Fluid Cloud, a startup built to solve the painful, months‑long process of moving workloads between cloud accounts and providers. Co‑founders Sherad Kumar and Harshed Omar recount how a nine‑month AWS‑to‑AWS migration after an acquisition sparked the idea, leading to a platform that promises true multi‑cloud and hybrid‑cloud portability. Fluid Cloud’s core offering combines automated discovery, a compatibility scoring engine, and a service‑mapping database covering roughly 140 of the most commonly used cloud services. By scanning an entire account—up to 100,000 resources—in about 60 seconds, the tool generates Terraform‑compatible templates, cost analyses, and a detailed report of which services will migrate cleanly and which will require re‑architecting. The company claims its speed outpaces traditional CSPM tools by hours, and its scoring helps customers avoid costly surprises mid‑migration. During the interview, the hosts highlight real‑world results: a client’s infrastructure migration that normally would have taken eight weeks was compressed into a single weekend, and another enterprise used the platform to shift workloads to cheaper regions, reducing spend. Fluid Cloud also addresses geopolitical pressures for sovereign clouds, offering guidance on moving between providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI while flagging proprietary services like AWS Aurora that lack direct equivalents. If the platform lives up to its promises, it could reshape how enterprises approach cloud strategy, turning migration from a strategic roadblock into a routine, data‑driven decision. Faster discovery and transparent compatibility scores enable firms to evaluate cost‑benefit trade‑offs, negotiate better vendor terms, and maintain agility in an increasingly multi‑cloud world.

Original Description

FluidCloud calls itself a cloud-cloning platform. In other words, the company can map and copy all the cloud infrastructure settings from one public cloud---including compute, storage, networking, and identity---and port those settings to a different public cloud.

On today's sponsored Day Two DevOps, Ned and Kyler talk with FluidCloud's co-founders to understand how the platform works, how FluidCloud maps capabilities among different cloud providers, and how organizations can use FluidCloud to enable cloud portability to support migrations, improve availability, and better manage costs. They also talk about how FluidCloud can also help you migrate off VMware.

Their guests are Sharad Kumar, CEO and co-founder; and Harshit Omar, CTO and co-founder.

Links:

FluidCloud - FluidCloud.com

FluidCloud’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fluidcloud

Sharad Kumar’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharadkumar123/

Harshit Omar’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshito/

Day Two DevOps is part of the Packet Pushers network. Visit our website to find more great networking and technology podcasts, along with tutorial videos, the Human Infrastructure newsletter, and loads more resources for building your IT career. https://packetpushers.net