Sharad Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO at FluidCloud
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Sharad KumarCo-Founder & CEO

In this interview, FluidCloud co-founder and CEO Sharad Kumar explains why cloud portability is becoming a strategic priority as enterprises face outages, rising infrastructure costs, and increasing sovereign cloud requirements. He discusses how AI-powered cloud cloning dramatically reduces migration timelines, why resilience is replacing migration as the primary customer use case, and how partnerships with AWS are accelerating enterprise adoption while positioning FluidCloud for its next phase of growth.

Sharad Kumar

Sharad Kumar

Co-Founder & CEO

FluidCloud

FluidCloud

Founder Stats

  • Technology
  • Started 2024
  • /mo
  • 11–50 team
  • Pleasanton, California, USA

About Sharad Kumar

Sharad Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of FluidCloud, a cloud infrastructure startup focused on eliminating vendor lock-in through AI-powered cloud portability. Previously part of the founding team at Accurics, he has extensive experience in cloud security and infrastructure. Under his leadership, FluidCloud has developed Cloud Cloning™ technology that enables enterprises to migrate, replicate, and manage infrastructure across multiple cloud providers in a fraction of traditional migration times.

Interview

July 3,2026

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What problem is FluidCloud solving?

Question 1 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Enterprises are increasingly trapped by cloud vendor lock-in. FluidCloud enables organizations to clone, migrate, and operate infrastructure across multiple cloud providers quickly while maintaining resilience and flexibility.

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What major industry trends have emerged over the past year?

Question 2 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Cloud outages, significant VMware price increases, and growing demand for sovereign cloud deployments have accelerated enterprise interest in multi-cloud strategies.

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Why has resilience become a bigger priority than migration?

Question 3 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Customers no longer want to depend on a single cloud provider after experiencing large-scale outages. They now view multi-cloud resilience as a business continuity requirement.

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How does FluidCloud simplify cloud migration?

Question 4 of 12
Sharad Kumar

The platform scans existing environments, converts infrastructure into Infrastructure-as-Code, maps cloud services across providers, and automates both infrastructure deployment and data migration.

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What makes your technology different?

Question 5 of 12
Sharad Kumar

FluidCloud created one-to-one mappings between cloud APIs, allowing workloads to move between providers without requiring customers to manually rebuild infrastructure.

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How much faster is the migration process?

Question 6 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Projects that traditionally require several months can often be completed in less than a week using FluidCloud's automation platform.

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Which cloud environments can customers migrate from?

Question 7 of 12
Sharad Kumar

The platform supports migrations regardless of how infrastructure was originally provisioned, including Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CLI tools, and manually configured environments.

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How does AWS support your growth?

Question 8 of 12
Sharad Kumar

AWS has introduced FluidCloud to multiple partner programs, supports joint selling efforts, helps fund initiatives, and connects the company with enterprise customers for deployments.

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Why is cloud portability valuable for hyperscalers?

Question 9 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Cloud providers have large migration backlogs. Faster migration technology enables them to onboard customers more efficiently while improving overall adoption.

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How are enterprises responding to the platform?

Question 10 of 12
Sharad Kumar

Large enterprises are increasingly adopting FluidCloud for resilience initiatives rather than simply migration, allowing them to maintain flexibility after workloads have moved.

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What progress has the company made commercially?

Question 11 of 12
Sharad Kumar

FluidCloud has signed enterprise customers, established partnerships with multiple systems integrators, and is expanding into sovereign cloud projects with government organizations.

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How is the company approaching fundraising?

Question 12 of 12
Sharad Kumar

FluidCloud previously raised approximately $8.1 million in seed funding and is preparing for its next funding round as product-market fit strengthens and enterprise adoption grows.

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Video Interviews with Sharad Kumar

Sharad Kumar, FluidCloud | AWS Summit DC 2026

Sharad Kumar, FluidCloud | AWS Summit DC 2026

Sharad Kumar, FluidCloud | AWS Summit DC 2026

Sharad Kumar & Harshit Omar, FluidCloud | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Mixture of Experts Series

Sharad Kumar & Harshit Omar, FluidCloud | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Mixture of Experts Series

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