Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DataZone, a new data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. At AWS re:Invent 2022, we preannounced Amazon DataZone, and in March 2023, we previewed it publicly. During the keynote of the last re:Invent, Swami Sivasubramanian, …
Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) systems are an essential part of any modern cybersecurity toolbox that helps the SOC collect, detect, investigate and respond to internal and external cyber threats. This critical tool helps cybersecurity teams collect, analyze and perform security operations while maintaining and ensuring rapid, optimal incident response. We cover a lot …
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In the digital age, where information is power, and the battle for data integrity rages on, cyber threats 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 …
Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great to get to meet with so many of our customers and hear how they are …
Ransomware is an issue that many companies run into. According to the 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, 85% of companies surveyed experienced at least one cyberattack in the last 12 months. Of those affected, only 66% of their data was recoverable. Although ransomware is undeniably a threat, the risk can be greatly mitigated by having a …
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In a recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne1, 83% of organizations agree that the hybrid multi-cloud approach stands as the preferred backup strategy. Considering this surge in digital transformation, the management and protection of data have assumed unprecedented importance. As organizations increasingly incorporate hyperscale cloud environments such as AWS and Azure, there is strong demand …
In today’s cost-conscious world, enterprises are continually evaluating and adopting new preferred infrastructure vendors, whether it be driven by total cost of ownership, features or overall flexibility. Despite being critical in today’s datacenters, hypervisors themselves are not exempt from this either. One of the key influences when evaluating the foundational pillars of your IT environment …
This April, we announced Amazon Bedrock as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Stability AI, and Amazon, along with a broad set …
How resilient is your company? Most businesses aren’t as resilient as they think. Historically, backup and recovery processes for IT and cloud environments are: Composed of manual processes to replicate and protect workloads and data, Kept in a written business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan, and Implemented by a person or team. Manual processes are onerous …
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I’m excited to announce today a new capability of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) that allows you to continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). We use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose—an extract, transform, and load (ETL) service—to read data from a Kafka topic, transform …
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