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In the ever-evolving world of technology, where data rules supreme and innovations abound, finding your way through the digital labyrinth can be a daunting task. Whether you’re a seasoned tech enthusiast, a curious newcomer, or just someone looking to make sense of the rapidly changing tech landscape, “The NAS Guy” is here to be your guiding light.

Welcome to my tech-savvy haven where we unravel the mysteries of cloud computing, dive deep into storage solutions, explore the intricacies of data backup, and navigate everything in between. If you’ve ever found yourself lost in the jargon of terabytes, cloud migrations, or RAID arrays, fear not – you’re in the right place!

Recent Blog Posts

  • New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage
    Since the launch of AWS Graviton processors in 2018, we have continued to innovate and deliver improved performance for our customers’ cloud workloads. Following the success of our Graviton3-based instances, we are excited to announce three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance families powered by AWS Graviton4 processors with NVMe-based SSD local storage: … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)
    Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry leaders, and meet AWS experts and like-minded professionals. In particular, most AWS Summits have Developer and Community Lounges in their exhibition halls. A photo taken by Thembile … Read more
  • Exchange Backup: Methods and Best Practices
    Microsoft Exchange is a critical component of communication infrastructure for many organizations, and serves as the backbone for email, calendaring, and collaboration. However, its importance also makes it a high-priority system for data protection, and it’s your responsibility to safeguard your Microsoft Exchange data. Ensuring regular backups of your Exchange environment can protect against data … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Review: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025)
    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last week’s launches Announcing up … Read more
  • Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone
    At re:Invent 2023, we introduced Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. S3 Express One Zone delivers data access speed up to 10 times faster than S3 Standard, and it can support up … Read more
  • AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in Amazon Bedrock serverless
    Today, we announce that the Pixtral Large 25.02 model is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model. Working with large foundation models (FMs) often requires significant infrastructure planning, specialized expertise, and ongoing optimization to … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
    Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications. Traditional approaches in building voice-enabled applications require complex orchestration of multiple models, such as speech recognition to convert speech to text, language models to … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities
    Since we launched Amazon Bedrock Guardrails over one year ago, customers like Grab, Remitly, KONE, and PagerDuty have used Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to standardize protections across their generative AI applications, bridge the gap between native model protections and enterprise requirements, and streamline governance processes. Today, we’re introducing a new set of capabilities that helps customers … Read more
  • Veeam is More+. Achieve complete data resilience with Veeam.
    At Veeam, we’ve redefined data resilience for the modern enterprise. While we are known as the pioneer for virtualization backup, Veeam is so much more. Veeam Data Platform is your all-in-one data resilience solution, integrating data protection, threat detection, cyber protection, observability, AI, incident response and the world’s fastest, most trusted recoveries. Over the past … Read more
  • Recon Scanner Detects Malicious Activity & Prevents Cyberattack
    Local governments, just like any private organization, rely heavily on digital infrastructure for nearly every aspect of operation — from managing tax systems to safeguarding financial records and online services. This reliance however added to restricted IT and security budgets makes them prime targets for cyberattacks. Faced with this challnge, the IT team of a … Read more
  • Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos
    At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Review: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)
    AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest … Read more
  • Meet the AWS News Blog team!
    Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS News Blog as of December last year, the AWS News Blog team will keep sharing the most important and impactful AWS product launches the moment they become available. I want to quote Jeff’s last comment on the future of the News Blog again: Going forward, the … Read more
  • Chart your Course to Modern Virtualization in Kubernetes with Veeam Kasten
    On the path to digital transformation, enterprises have increasingly turned to containerized environments to quickly and effectively deploy new revenue-generating applications. As customers increasingly explore alternatives to VMware as their virtualization provider, one key challenge they face is enhancing their investment in traditional virtualized environment infrastructures and applications while forming a plan to run a … Read more
  • Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service
    Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling … Read more
  • Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints
    Today, we are launching IPv6 support for Amazon API Gateway across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs, in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now configure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, and custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call API … Read more
  • Akira Attacks in a Nutshell: Understanding and Detecting the Threat
    Akira ransomware has cemented its reputation as one of the most relentless and disruptive cyber threats affecting organizations today. Akira has held the number one spot for six straight quarters in Coveware by Veeam’s case data, and in 2024, it was responsible for 14% of all ransomware incidents.   While many ransomware groups tend to chase … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025)
    It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning … Read more
  • Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available
    I’m excited to announce that AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, so you can run your test suites concurrently and reduce build times significantly. With the demo project I wrote for this post, the total test time went down from 35 minutes to six minutes, including the time to provision the environments. These two … Read more
  • Elevate Your Cloud Game With Veeam
    Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, with nearly 98% of businesses utilizing cloud services in some capacity. This trend continues to grow as organizations store, process, and manage vast amounts of critical data in the cloud. However, with great convenience comes significant risk. Security threats, accidental deletions, and cloud outages can lead to severe … Read more
  • Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with … Read more
  • How to Prepare For & Survive a Cyber Attack: Critical Steps to Follow
    In the digital age, where information is power, cybercriminals loom like shadowy adversaries, ready to pounce on unsuspecting organizations. These stealthy assailants are relentless, exploiting every vulnerability to breach digital fortresses, wreak havoc and compromise the integrity of business-critical data. In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber warfare, organizations must be fully equipped, prepared for the … Read more
  • Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available
    Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements. We continue to expand the AWS global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Omdia recognition, Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation, International Women’s Day events, and more (March 24, 2025)
    As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as … Read more
  • Hybrid Cloud Providers: How to Choose the Right One
    By blending the control of on-premises systems with the flexibility of cloud environments, hybrid cloud models offer unparalleled opportunities for scalability, security, and efficiency. But with the market teeming with options, how do you choose the right hybrid cloud provider? This guide provides an in-depth look at the leading hybrid cloud providers, highlighting their strengths … Read more
  • Why Backing Up Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID Matters
    In our recent blog “5 Reasons Why You Should Be Backing Up Microsoft Entra ID,” we discussed the importance of having a comprehensive backup strategy to protect your organization’s identity data. But what about the objects within Entra ID, specifically conditional access policies? For those unfamiliar, conditional access policies are rules that determine who can … Read more
  • Top 5 TTPs Targeting Enterprise Cybersecurity
    As enterprises continue to strengthen their security tactics, threat actors are continuously refining their methods to sidestep them. In 2024, advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) evolved significantly, shaping the threat landscape with greater efficiency and effectiveness.  These advancements have intensified enterprise cybersecurity threats, making proactive defense strategies more critical than ever. With the dust … Read more
  • Building Cyber Resilience in Educational Organizations
    Building cyber resilience within educational organizations is imperative to protect sensitive student, faculty, and research data and ensure operational continuity. Academic institutions are shifting toward complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures, making them more susceptible to cyber threats like phishing and ransomware. To effectively safeguard against these risks and others, schools, colleges, and universities must move … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more
    Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 15th anniversary, AWS Pi Day has grown into a flagship event highlighting the transformative power of cloud technologies in data management, analytics, and AI. This year’s … Read more
  • Google Cloud Pricing Guide: Models, Calculations, and Tips
    Google Cloud is a collection of services that includes storage and compute resources, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS), all provided by Google. Google offers several pricing options that cater to different demographics and use cases. These options include a free tier, pay-as-you-go instances, and discounted long-term reservations. Because so … Read more
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