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Inside Economics welcomes Wayne Best, Chief Economist at Visa, back on the podcast to celebrate the 200th episode and talk about the state of the American consumer. Wayne discusses Visa’s Spending Momentum Index for the U.S. and other parts of the globe and what it means for low, high, and middle-income households. The conversation ends with a discussion of the Trump administration’s policy proposals and the implications for inflation and growth. Guest: Wayne Best, Chief Economist at Visa Hosts: Mark Zandi – Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics, Cris deRitis – Deputy Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics, and Marisa DiNatale – Senior Director - Head of Global Forecasting, Moody’s Analytics Follow Mark Zandi on 'X' and BlueSky @MarkZandi, Cris deRitis on LinkedIn, and Marisa DiNatale on LinkedIn

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01:00pm-01:10pm ET - Welcome, Cloud/Serverless Introduction Wayne Scarano, sga.com, Founder, AWS Strategy/Architecture/Security/Instructor and AWS Community Builder

01:10pm-02:00pm ET - AWS and Serverless technologies in production at Sophos/SophosLabs James Wilson, Director of X-Ops Business Development Guy Davies, Principal Cloud Architect Marc McGinnis, Principal Cloud Architect–SophosLabs

Sophos and SophosLabs built solutions supporting our products and services which leverage AWS for almost 15 years. Two of these solutions provide data to our products:

1. The Sophos Updating Services provide products with the latest version of their software and data. We will look at how the AWS serverless services are used to provide a reliable service for our almost 600 thousand customers.

2. SophosLabs Intelix (specifically Cloud Lookups) provides the latest threat intelligence from SophosLabs and Sophos AI to every deployment of Sophos products worldwide, providing answers to trillions of queries per month. We will look at how the system was developed, cloud services used, and how we monitor usage and cost in a highly scalable system.

James Wilson –Director of X-Ops Business Development James joined Sophos in 2019 and is the Product Director for SophosLabs Intelix. James works with several teams at Sophos to increase the adoption of SophosLabs Intelix across Sophos products, OEM partners, and through AWS Marketplace. Prior to Sophos, James worked at a range of companies (from startups to multinationals) to help build and deliver products that add real value to their users. Guy Davies –Principal Cloud Architect Guy has been at Sophos for over 18 years. Guy has worked with every product team to build out best in class cloud native and serverless solutions. Guy is a passionate advocate of serverless, cloud-native architecture let's stand on the shoulders of giants and let someone else do the heavy lifting for us! Marc McGinnis –Principal Cloud Architect –SophosLabs Marc has been a cloud architect in cyber security companies for over 15 years. Marc works with the SophosLabs platform team to ensure that the cloud services are built to leverage the best qualities of cloud especially in terms of availability, scalability to provide better cybersecurity outcomes for our customers.

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