AWS Podcast #737: Accelerate your GenAI innovation journey on AWS with Innovation Sandbox solution
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Sep 15, 2025 Rakshana Balakrishnan, a Senior Product Manager at AWS, and Todd Gruett, a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, dive into the innovative Innovation Sandbox solution. They discuss how this tool cuts setup time from weeks to hours, streamlining experimentation while ensuring security and cost control. The conversation covers the importance of safe experimental environments for transitioning to cloud-native technologies and the need for upskilling the workforce for effective cloud and AI adoption. Customer insights showcase its transformative impact across various sectors.
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Sandbox Scale Increases Governance Complexity
- Sandbox environments must balance user flexibility with strict isolation to avoid data leaks and misconfigurations.
- At scale this challenge multiplies across hundreds of accounts and thousands of users, requiring automated governance.
Runaway Costs Are A Primary Sandbox Risk
- Untracked resources and forgotten environments create significant runaway cost risk in sandboxes.
- Customers asked for visibility and automated spend limits to prevent surprise bills and resource waste.
Recycle Accounts To Cut Operational Overhead
- Creating and decommissioning short-lived sandbox accounts adds heavy operational overhead for admins.
- Reusable, recyclable accounts reduce admin time from weeks to hours for recurring experiments.