• AWS Step-by-Step

    Creating Time-Based Copies of Your EBS Snapshots on AWS

    Amazon introduced a time-based snapshot copy feature that allows you to specify how quickly the snapshot copy process should be complete, useful to organizations who have compliance requirements necessitating snapshot copies to be made within a specific amount of time. 12/13/2024

  • News

    All the AI at AWS re:Invent 2024

    The announcement of Nova foundational models kicked things off, but there was much more about AI at the conference you should be aware of. 12/11/2024

  • AWS Step-by-Step

    Measuring Network Performance Across AWS Regions and Availability Zones

    Thankfully, Amazon provides an easy way to look at network latency and performance between regions or availability zones, and Brien Posey shows you how. 12/10/2024

  • News

    Yet Another Misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket Exposes Sensitive Customer Data

    The years-long problem of misconfigured S3 storage buckets on the AWS cloud has surfaced again, exposing sensitive data from customers despite tons of warnings, guidance, documentation and advice from AWS and other providers. 12/10/2024

  • News

    What's New for Security at AWS re:Invent 2024

    A new AWS Security Incident Response service heads a bevy of security, identity and compliance announcements at this week's AWS re:Invent conference. 12/04/2024

  • News

    New Nova Foundational AI Models Lead AWS re:Invent 2024 News

    The new family of models follows the trend of moving from huge all-in-one, jack-of-all-trades constructs to more specialized models designed to more nimbly handle specific tasks. 12/03/2024

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    Nutanix Expands AWS Partnership with Migration Incentives

    Hybrid multicloud computing specialist Nutanix expanded its partnership with AWS, aiming to accelerate cloud migration and provide customers with options for managing workloads across on-premises and the cloud. 11/21/2024

  • News

    AWS re:Invent 2024: Top 'Responsible AI' Sessions

    With the increasing dominance of AI are increasing concerns about its ethical use, leading to the rise of "responsible AI." And AWS is certainly not ignoring those concerns, with 36 of the 860 AI/ML sessions falling under that area of interest. 11/14/2024

  • News

    Kyndryl/AWS Cybersecurity Survey: Big Orgs Hit Hard

    Large organizations are getting hit hard by cybersecurity attacks, with more than half of respondents to a new survey reporting at least one such incident in the past year. 11/12/2024

  • News

    Cloud Giant Earnings Reports Belie Perceived AWS GenAI Weakness

    So much for AWS' supposed slow embrace of GenAI purportedly giving fellow cloud giants Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud an edge up in their perennial chase of cloud computing dominance. 11/06/2024

  • News

    Amazon Q Developer Gets Inline AI Chat

    Playing catch-up to some other AI coding assistants, Amazon Q Developer now offers inline chat capabilities, powered by its latest/greatest AI tech: the Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet update. 10/30/2024

  • AWS Step-by-Step

    Reducing Your AWS Costs Through Instance Scheduling, Part 2: Test Early

    "As I was writing this article, I had a lot of problems with the testing process displaying a time-out error," says Brien Posey, which is why you read these articles to see how problems are fixed. 10/24/2024

  • News

    AWS Ups Its Agentic AI Game with Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet Update

    Following yesterday's agentic AI moves from fellow cloud giants Microsoft and Google, AWS upped its own autonomous AI game with new capabilities for its Amazon Bedrock service, which now offers an updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from partner Anthropic. 10/22/2024

  • News

    After Oracle Deal, AWS Strengthens Databricks AI Partnership

    AWS has lately focused on shoring up its data-centric partnerships, including fostering AI functionality as it plays catch-up with GenAI cloud leader Microsoft -- not to mention Google Cloud, working hard to stay relevant. 10/21/2024

  • AWS Step-by-Step

    Reducing Your AWS Costs Through Instance Scheduling, Part 1

    To save money, Brien shows how to set up a scheduler to shut down a VM instance at the end of the day and automatically power it back on the next morning. 10/15/2024

  • News

    AWS Cracks Desktop-as-a-Service Leaderboard

    Meanwhile, Gartner notes turmoil as market shifts from traditional on-premises VDI to DaaS in the cloud. 10/10/2024

  • News

    AWS AI Drives Growth of 'Autonomous Virtual Human' Tech

    A novel use case for AWS's AI offerings is helping to grow a newly cloud-hosted Autonomous Virtual Human (AVH) project. 10/09/2024

  • AWS Step-by-Step

    Migrating Workloads with AWS Application Migration Service, Part 2

    To actually do the migration, you'll need to access the AWS replication agent first. Here's how, using Windows Server as an example. 09/26/2024

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