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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 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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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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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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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 Step-by-Step
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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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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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