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    Setting Up a Windows EC2 File Server Backed by Amazon S3, Part 1

    An explanation of how to set up a Windows-based EC2 file server backed by Amazon S3 for organizations seeking a cost-effective, scalable alternative to EFS or EBS with familiar Windows management. 07/07/2025

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    AI on Lockdown: AWS Re:Inforce 2025 Delivers Cloud Security Upgrades

    GuardDuty's new runtime protection for Amazon EKS leads a series of announcements from AWS aimed at securing the infrastructure, data, and APIs powering modern AI workloads in the cloud. 06/24/2025

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    Using AWS Systems Manager to Manage Windows Instances, Revisited

    Brien Posey revisits AWS Systems Manager to show how Fleet Manager lets you manage files, users, processes, and more, all without RDP or Port 3389. 06/23/2025

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    Amazon Enhances its AWS Cost Optimization Hub

    Amazon’s AWS Cost Optimization Hub now provides smarter cost-saving recommendations that take savings plans, reserved instances, and payment preferences into account -- helping customers better manage cloud spending. 06/11/2025

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    Amazon Aurora DSQL Ships, Serverless and Distributed

    Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available, offering a serverless, distributed SQL database said to offer virtually unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management, enabling developers to build always-available applications with ease. 06/09/2025

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    Amazon Q Developer AI Updates Include Cost Optimization

    Among several other updates, AWS announced new cost optimization features for Amazon Q Developer, its AI-powered assistant for cloud builders. 06/04/2025

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    AWS Signs On with New Workday AI Agent Partner Network

    Workday’s new Agent Partner Network and Agent Gateway -- with AWS, Microsoft, Google and many others on board -- aims to unify management of AI agents and human workers. At the center: an Agent System of Record that treats AI like digital coworkers. 06/03/2025

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    Fortifying Your Cloud: Essential AWS Security Strategies from an Expert Cloud Strategist

    Fortify your AWS environment with three quick, expert-approved strategies from cloud consultant Carlos Rivas — including billing alarms, service control policies, and secure containerized apps. Smart security that saves money, too. 05/30/2025

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    AWS Improves Backup Restorations with Custom Volume Support

    Brien Posey goes hands on to explain how you can now customize volume configurations when restoring an EC2 virtual machine instance. 05/30/2025

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    AWS Uses Advanced LLMs to Simplify Agentic AI with Open Source Strands SDK

    The Amazon Q Developer team noticed LLMs were getting better at reasoning and tool usage, so they figured out how to use them for agentic AI workflow/orchestration drudgery and then open-sourced their new timesaving, solution. 05/29/2025

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    AI-Focused Data Security Report Finds Thousands of Risky AWS Policies Per Account

    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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    Firms Seize on AWS Policy Change Disrupting Cloud FinOps

    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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    Dynamically Configuring Windows Instances in AWS EC2, Part 2: Using Metadata

    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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    Cloud Data Egress Fee Tussle Plays Out with $250k AWS Comp

    "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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    Dynamically Configuring Windows Instances in AWS EC2, Part 1

    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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    New AWS AI: Amazon Nova Premier, Llama 4, Anonymous User Q Business Chatbots

    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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    Getting Started With VPC Firewalls, Part 2: Creating a Network Policy

    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 Leads 'Big 3' in Cloud Marketplace/Co-Sell Survey Report

    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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