Road to Gold Part 2: Betting on the Future

June 24, 2025

Road to Gold Part 2: Betting on the Future

In Part 1 of this Road to Gold episode, former NBA Champion Omri Casspi shared how drive and resilience took him from Israel to the NBA.

In Part 2, the conversation continues with Upwind co-Founder and CEO Amiram Shachar, diving into the mindset behind lasting success – being coachable, learning from mistakes, putting in the work, and surrounding yourself with the right people.

These values didn’t just shape Omri’s NBA career – they’re the reason he became one of Upwind’s first investors. For Omri, it’s not about numbers – it’s about belief in people and a vision built to last.

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Recap In Part I and Part II, we: Networking and VPC Mode Network Isolation Testing The microVM is assigned an IPv6 address matching the value in the JWT. Across multiple runs, all addresses shared the same 2600:1f18::/32 prefix, but cross-microVM communication always failed. We attempted to reach the host EC2 IMDS by manipulating the route…

What’s Behind the Curtain? AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Tear Down – Part II

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Dan Gansel

Recap In Part I, we explored the AgentCore Runtime microVM from the inside and discovered we weren't alone - four platform binaries were running alongside our code, and one of them was quietly shipping logs to an AWS-internal S3 bucket. We left off with a question: what can we learn from these internal components, and…

What’s Behind the Curtain? AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Tear Down – Part I

Dan Gansel

Introduction When you deploy an AI agent to AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, your code runs inside a Firecracker microVM - but it doesn't run alone. In this three-part series, we tear down the platform internals, document what we found, and assess how well the isolation holds up. Setting the Stage AWS Bedrock AgentCore Runtime is…

Road to Gold Part 2: Betting on the Future