Installing DISA STIG Hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Veeam Hardened Repository
Since I wrote my blog post about how to install and harden Ubuntu Linux for Veeam Hardened Repository about a year ago, I get questions on how to do the…
Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Cost-effective, non-persistent virtual desktops
You can now create a pool of non-persistent virtual desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces and share them across a group of users. As the desktop administrator you can manage your entire…
Introducing end-to-end data lineage (preview) visualization in Amazon DataZone
Amazon DataZone is a data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. Engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and…
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitLab and Bitbucket repositories, with blueprints and Amazon Q feature development
I’m happy to announce that we’re further integrating Amazon CodeCatalyst with two popular code repositories: GitLab and BitBucket, in addition to the existing integration with GitHub. We bring the same set…
Small Business Backup Strategy Made Simple
Let’s face it, data is crucial for all businesses. It powers everything from customer relationships to financial management. Having a solid backup strategy in place to protect this data from…
Veeam Backup for AWS v8: A Leap Forward in Cloud Data Protection
Veeam, the global leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, has recently announced the release of Veeam Backup for AWS v8. This new version marks a significant advancement in cloud…
4 Myths of Kubernetes Data Protection, Debunked
Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, has gained widespread adoption due to its ability to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Based on the April 2023 ESG…
Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for speed and scale
After several public betas, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) in 2006. Nearly two decades later, this fully managed service is still a fundamental building block for microservices,…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Amazon Bedrock, CodeCatalyst updates, SageMaker with MLflow, and more (June 24, 2024)
This week, I had the opportunity to try the new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock just before it launched, and I was really impressed by its speed…
Veeam: It Just Works!
While almost everything is ever-changing in IT, the need for reliable backups has been a constant throughout my entire career. When I started working in IT way back in 1985,…