Ahmed Elgendy

Senior Black Belt - Cloud Services at Red Hat

Bio

Gendy architects enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms for mission-critical workloads across hybrid clouds. As a Black Belt at Red Hat Cloud Services with an SRE background, he transforms how large organizations approach platform reliability — reducing deployment risk and accelerating delivery. From complex migrations to GPU-enabled AI platforms and VMs on Kubernetes, turning infrastructure complexity into business velocity. You’ll often find him sharing real-world lessons at industry events and workshops.

Sessions

ACD215

Shrink EC2 spend - No Rewrite required: Run VMs on Kubernetes with KubeVirt

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

Stop paying for idle EC2. Consolidate under-utilized instances on a Kubernetes-native virtualization layer — no app rewrites. We’ll cover migration options and tuning for bin-packing, safe overcommit, and autoscaling. See how to run VMs alongside containers on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with OpenShift Virtualization. You’ll leave with real-life cost-savings examples, a sizing recipe, and a quick savings checklist.

Ahmed Elgendy

Senior Black Belt - Cloud Services at Red Hat