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Mike O'Reilly entity
VMware
CTP
Cloud
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

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