No Keys, No VPN: Operating Software in Customer Clouds — Aditya Mahamuni, Alien

Enterprise customers often ask to run your software inside their own cloud. Aditya Mahamuni explains how to operate software in infrastructure you don't control without asking for access keys, VPN access, or an open inbound port: a scoped cross-account role for push, an outbound-only container for pull, and how the same idea works on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Recorded at AI Infrastructure Night, Finix HQ, San Francisco, on Oct 21, 2026. Speaker: Aditya Mahamuni, Alien Ambassador Slides & links: https://alien.dev More talks: https://alien.dev/events Upcoming events: https://luma.com/alienplatform Join the Slack community: https://alien.dev/slack Chapters: 0:00 "Can you deploy it into our cloud?" 1:09 Access keys, VPNs and open ports 1:46 It works like sharing one folder 2:42 IAM roles on AWS 4:01 The trust policy 4:34 One request, step by step 6:33 Google Cloud and Azure 7:15 No cross-account access: pull 9:00 Shipping an update with pull 10:11 Push, pull, air-gapped 10:57 Back to the question