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Recent Blog Posts

  • Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances
    Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These instances deliver up to 15 … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
    Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was … Read more
  • AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row
    On August 4, 2025, Gartner published its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the longest-running Magic Quadrant Leader, with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest on the “Ability to Execute” axis. We believe this … Read more
  • Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
    Ten years ago, we announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora, a database that combined the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. As Jeff described it in its launch blog post: “With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update … Read more
  • Nutanix AHV vs. VMware ESXi: Making an Informed Decision
    Key Takeaways Nutanix AHV is easy to use, cost-effective, and tightly integrated with Nutanix HCI. VMware ESXi offers advanced features, broad compatibility, and is ideal for complex enterprise environments. Choose based on your organization’s needs and rely on Veeam for secure data backup, recovery, and portability. Modern data centers rely heavily on hypervisors to enable … Read more
  • Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025
    We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and technical leadership. These passionate individuals represent diverse regions and technical specialties, demonstrating notable expertise and dedication to knowledge sharing within the AWS community. From AI and machine learning to serverless architectures and security, our new Heroes showcase the … Read more
  • Introducing Veeam Vault to the One UI: Secure Cloud Storage Made Easy
    Today marks an exciting step forward for Veeam and our customers, as Veeam Vault joins our all-new unified OneUI, alongside our Veeam Data Cloud workloads for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, and more. This integration brings our fully managed and pre-secured cloud storage solution front and center, making it even easier for organizations to protect, … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)
    AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet stopped for those of us in other parts of the globe. The community, customers, partners, and colleagues enjoyed a day of learning and networking last week at the AWS Summit Mexico City and the AWS Summit Jakarta. Last week’s … Read more
  • Smart Strategies for Handling Vendor Lock-In, Lock-Out, and Data Challenges
    Key Takeaways: Understanding the difference between vendor lock-in and lock-out is essential for data control: Lock-in can restrict flexibility and innovation, while lock-out can result in sudden loss of access to critical data or services. Both pose real risks to long-term data strategy. Portability and vendor flexibility are key to future-proofing your data management: Choosing … Read more
  • How Higher Education Institutions Can Strengthen Cyber Resilience with Modern Data Protection
    Education sector IT teams are facing unprecedented cybersecurity threats and compliance demands. For colleges and universities, cyber resilience is the ability to withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks and IT disruptions, without losing access to critical systems and data. Working closely with higher education institutions across the country, I’ve seen just how dramatically the … Read more
  • Locking Down Public-Sector Data: My Perspective on Why Veeam Data Cloud Vault Sets the New Standard
    As director of public sector sales for Veeam in the U.S., I spend my days talking with state agencies, county CIOs, school districts, and federal program managers who are under relentless pressure. Ransomware actors see public services as soft targets, compliance mandates tighten every budget cycle, and legacy infrastructure isn’t aging gracefully. When 911 dispatch, … Read more
  • Safeguarding Public Sector Data: Veeam’s Blueprint for SLED Resilience
    In my role at Veeam, I have the privilege of working closely with state, local, and education (SLED) organizations across the U.S. Every day, I hear first-hand the challenges IT teams face including tight budgets, aging infrastructure, rising cyberthreats, and the constant pressure to meet compliance mandates. It’s not easy. In fact, with 87% of … Read more
  • Key 2025 Compliance Updates You Should Know
    Key Takeaways Mandatory reporting is now standard. New regulations like DORA, NIS2, and HIPAA updates require organizations to report cyber incidents—sometimes within just 72 hours—to maintain transparency and avoid penalties. 72-hour incident response windows are achievable, but only with preparation. Meeting tight timelines demands documented IR plans, defined workflows, cross-functional coordination, and automated detection tools. … Read more
  • Dangerous Tools in Clumsy Hands: Lessons from the VanHelsing Ransomware Leak
    What if you paid the ransom and your data was still destroyed? For many organizations, this is the nightmare scenario: you think you’ve negotiated your way out of a ransomware attack, you’ve paid the ransom demanded, and you’ve waited for the promised decryption tool. But when you think your data is safe and the ordeal … Read more
  • Driving Enterprise Efficiency: VMWare Rightsizing Powered by Veeam ONE and Pure1
    In today’s enterprise IT landscape, organizations are challenged to maximize performance, control costs and drive efficiencies across their virtual environments.  Additionally, migrating to a new hypervisor is a complex and costly process. It involves much more than simply replacing software—it demands thorough planning and significant investment across multiple areas, such as: Feature set and functionality … Read more
  • Minimum Viable Business and Minimum Viable Company for Cyber Resilience: What You Need to Know
    Key Takeaways: Defining a MVB/MVC state ensures organizations can quickly restore the most critical systems and processes after a cyberattack. Industry frameworks and compliance rules like NIST, CSF, or DORA all require this information. Veeam accelerates recovery to an MVB/MVC state through backup, clean room testing, and more features to then fully recover.   New … Read more
  • Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available
    Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we previewed during AWS re:Invent, is now generally available. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content generated by foundation models (FMs) against a domain knowledge. This can help prevent factual errors due to AI hallucinations. The … Read more
  • OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
    AWS is committed to bringing you the most advanced foundation models (FMs) in the industry, continuously expanding our selection to include groundbreaking models from leading AI innovators so that you always have access to the latest advancements to drive your business forward. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS service that lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With Amazon EVS, you can deploy fully functional VCF environments in just hours using a guided workflow, while running your … Read more
  • The Overlooked Risk in Your Microsoft 365 Defense: Why Identity Protection Matters More Than Ever
    Cybersecurity is a moving target, and as organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft 365, Entra ID has become the latest battleground in the war on information security. In our recent webinar, “The Overlooked Risk in Your Microsoft 365 Defense: Identity Protection”, Veeam expert Karinne Bessette and industry leader Joseph Carson explored the real-world risks organizations face, … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025)
    This week brings an array of innovations spanning from generative AI capabilities to enhancements of foundational services. Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, managing databases, or optimizing your cloud infrastructure, these updates help build more advanced, robust, and flexible applications. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week: Amazon DocumentDB – … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region switch: A multi-Region application recovery service
    As a developer advocate at AWS, I’ve worked with many enterprise organizations who operate critical applications across multiple AWS Regions. A key concern they often share is the lack of confidence in their Region failover strategy—whether it will work when needed, whether all dependencies have been identified, and whether their teams have practiced the procedures … Read more
  • Veeam Achieves TX-RAMP Level 2 Security Certification for Veeam Data Cloud Products
    Veeam® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced that its Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) offerings have been awarded the Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program (TX-RAMP) Level 2 security certification. This achievement underscores Veeam’s commitment to delivering industry-leading, secure cloud data protection solutions to public sector organizations across Texas. TX-RAMP Level … Read more
  • Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, a new configuration for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) that automatically scales compute and memory based on your application’s demand. Amazon DocumentDB Serverless simplifies database management with no upfront commitments or additional costs, offering up to 90 percent cost savings compared to provisioning for peak … Read more
  • Veeam in a Multi-Hypervisor World
    The hypervisor landscape is undergoing significant change. With VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom and the resulting strategic shifts, new opportunities are emerging for alternative virtualization platforms. This technological evolution is bringing fresh momentum to the IT market – along with new challenges in data protection. Veeam is more than just backup for VMware environments. Our commitment … Read more
  • Fortify Cyber Resilience Through Hyperautomation with Veeam + Torq
    Cyberthreats continue to expand in frequency and complexity. They increase pressure on security operations and IT teams to preempt, detect, respond to, and recover from attacks faster, more accurately and confidently. Many organizations remain hindered by limited visibility, fragmented tools, and manual processes. These obstructions and complexities slow their ability to respond effectively to a … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)
    To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. … Read more
  • Clean Recovery and Business Continuity: Expert Insights from Veeam and Coveware
    Recovery isn’t just about getting systems back online; it’s about proving that IT operations are essential to business continuity. Veeam’s Leah Troscianecki sat down with Ray Umerley, Field CISO, Coveware by Veeam, for a tactical conversation about what actually happens when ransomware hits, and how clean recovery can turn the tide from operational fire drills … Read more
  • Targeted social engineering is en vogue as ransom payment sizes increase
    “Don’t say the “S…” word. But which adjective starting with S are we talking about? Three specifically come to mind in Q2, as these groups were both prolific in the sheer volume of attacks and novel iterations of social engineering in their intrusion vectors. Below, we dissect each one. Scattered SpiderAttack Approach: TargetedCharacterized By: Social … Read more
  • 8 Reasons Veeam Data Cloud is the #1 Choice for Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup
    Choosing a backup solution for your Microsoft 365 SaaS environment isn’t just a checkbox for IT, it’s a make-or-break decision for your entire business. The stakes are high: misconfigurations, accidental deletions, unauthorized data access, and compliance violations are everywhere, and the cost of a failed backup solution in a critical moment can have devastating business … Read more
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