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A new Varonis data security report finds the average AWS environment has 3,000+ risky access policies -- and nearly all orgs have data exposed to AI. Shadow apps, stale accounts, and weak controls compound the threat.
05/22/2025
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A significant shift is underway in cloud financial operations (FinOps), triggered by AWS' upcoming June 1 deadline that restricts the sharing of Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) across multiple end customers.
05/16/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
After previously explaining how to retrieve a Windows instance's metadata through PowerShell, Brien Posey demos some ways to dynamically configure the instance based on its metadata.
05/13/2025
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"Fair play to AWS for comping the quarter of a million-dollar egress bill, per their public commitments. It took a while to get it approved, but in the end we got it."
05/09/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
When deploying Windows Servers, configuration tasks can be automated based on an instance's metadata, so Brien Posey shows some techniques for accessing it and using it to perform automated configuration changes.
05/08/2025
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Once thought to be lagging behind fellow cloud giants Microsoft and Google in advanced AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining a full-on crusade to even things up -- or more.
05/01/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
After explaining that the first step in creating a VPC network firewall is to create a rule group, Brien Posey continues his walkthrough by creating a network firewall policy.
04/30/2025
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AWS dominated fellow cloud giants in a new report from Clazar that examines how software vendors are leveraging cloud marketplaces and co-sell programs to drive revenue, accelerate deals, and deepen collaboration with hyperscaler sales teams.
04/24/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
Brien Posey details how to protect internet-exposed AWS VPCs with firewalls, and walks through the setup process.
04/22/2025
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AWS topped one ranking that identified the most defining skills for tech professionals on LinkedIn, and also ranked highly in a separate list of the top 10 specialized skills cited in U.S. AI job postings.
04/16/2025
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For years AWS has dominated cloud computing surveys of all types, continually edging out Microsoft (Azure) and Google (GCP) in that order, no matter the metric. A new survey of the Managed Service Provider space bucks that trend.
04/10/2025
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How-To
Brien Posey details how administrators can configure robust AI guardrails in Amazon Bedrock to filter harmful content, block sensitive topics, and enforce response accuracy.
04/09/2025
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"What if your AI assistant could instantly access deep AWS knowledge, understanding every AWS service, best practice, and architectural pattern?"
04/03/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
Corporations can suffer financial consequences if the AI interface that its employees are using generates certain types of content or if that AI is misused by employees. Fortunately, AWS makes it easy to place guardrails around Bedrock models.
03/27/2025
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The AWS cloud was featured in a new report from Tenable on cloud AI risks, especially the Amazon SageMaker offering, where root access vulnerabilities were found to be widespread.
03/20/2025
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First announced last year at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference, it furthers the company's agentic AI story, one of the hottest areas of AI development.
03/12/2025
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In the Forrester Wave report for Q4 2024, AWS leads the "strength of offering" axis in the Leaders grouping, which is also charted by a "strength of strategy" axis. Fellow leaders are familiar: Microsoft, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud.
03/10/2025
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AWS Step-by-Step
In part 2 of his series, Brien Posey takes a step back to talk about an optional EC2 Instance Connect component called EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint.
03/03/2025