---
title: "Mike O'Reilly"
type: entity
tags:
  - VMware
  - CTP
  - Cloud
last_updated: 2026-05-07
---

## Mike O'Reilly

Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware. Primary technical presenter for VMC on AWS content at Cloud Transformation Programme (CTP) learning sessions.

## Role
Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware. Main technical speaker at CTP Topic 43 — VMware Cloud on AWS. Explained the joint engineering nature of VMC on AWS and demonstrated the platform capabilities.

## Key Technical Points
- VMC on AWS is a jointly engineered cloud service where the VMware hypervisor runs natively on AWS bare metal servers — "not just something where VMware showed up at Amazon and dropped off a box of CDs"
- VMC on AWS runs vSphere 8 and provides native access to AWS services with low latency
- VMware and Amazon jointly manage the underlying infrastructure, allowing users to focus on their workloads
- Service is available across multiple regions and availability zones globally

## Connections
- [[VMware]] ← speaker ← [[MikeOReily]]
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← presented_by ← [[MikeOReily]]
- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← explains ← [[MikeOReily]] technical architecture

## Sources
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]