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Recent Blog Posts

  • Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action
    Today, we’re announcing Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns those insights into actions for you. Instead of switching between multiple applications to gather data, find important signals and trends, and complete manual tasks, Quick Suite brings AI-powered research, business intelligence, and automation capabilities into a … Read more
  • New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available
    Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors with a maximum frequency of 4.5GHz. Customers can expect up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better … Read more
  • Veeam Cyber Secure: Elite Services for Full Data Resilience
    Key Takeaways The market reality: Cyber resilience isn’t optional. Cyberattacks are constant, move fast, target backups, and boards expect provable plans and recovery. The new Veeam Cyber Secure program: From security assessments to threat actor intelligence security briefings and Coveware-led cyber extortion readiness & response, the Veeam Cyber Secure program helps improve organization’s security posture … Read more
  • Veeam Now Supports Scale Computing HyperCore™ operating system: Secure, Simple, Scalable Modern Virtualization Protection
    The IT industry has been rapidly evolving over the past year with many changes in the virtualization market driving organizations looking for cost effective, scalable alternatives to legacy infrastructure solutions. Major challenges for IT teams include migrating hypervisors and securing data from cyberthreats while controlling costs. If you’re an IT leader, these changes aren’t just … Read more
  • Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances
    After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and feature a 2:1 … Read more
  • AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
    Starting today, you can use your own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt identity data, such as user and group attributes, stored in AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances. Many organizations operating in regulated industries need complete control over encryption key management. While Identity Center already encrypts data at rest using AWS-owned … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)
    Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand … Read more
  • Remote Access Risks & the Path to Resilient Organizations
    Key Takeaways Remote access compromises, especially VPN exploits, are now the leading initial vector in ransomware attacks. Most breaches succeed due to missed basics: weak authentication, unpatched vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. Resilience depends on consistent processes: enforce MFA, patch promptly, audit accounts, and monitor VPN activity. Remote access security is inseparable from business continuity and backup … Read more
  • Veeam and Pure Storage: Cyber Resilience Delivered as-a-Service for the Modern Enterprise
    Navigating a New Era of Resilient Enterprise Data Protection Enterprises face a relentless barrage of cyber threats while grappling with growing IT complexity and data sprawl. The cost of downtime and data loss is soaring, and traditional backup alone is no longer enough. Enterprises demand true cyber resilience—continuous, automated, and verifiable protection and clean recovery … Read more
  • Resilient by Design: Protecting Hybrid and Cloud‑Native Workloads with Veeam Kasten and Red Hat OpenShift
    Key Takeaways:  Hybrid Cloud + Kubernetes Protection. Combining Veeam Kasten with Red Hat OpenShift delivers enterprise-grade backup, recovery, and mobility across VMs, containers, and cloud-native workloads. Future‑Proof Data Resilience. Immutable backups, policy-driven automation, and air-gapped storage defend against ransomware, human error, and compliance failures. Unified Platform for Modern Workloads. Veeam Kasten extends data protection to … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
    Today, we’re announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that enables developers to use the full range of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capabilities while offloading infrastructure management responsibilities to Amazon Web Service (AWS). This new offering combines the operational simplicity of offloading infrastructure with … Read more
  • Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPE
    Since announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks in April with breakthrough performance and scalability, we’ve continued to innovate on behalf of our customers at the edge of the cloud. Today, we’re expanding AWS Outposts third-party storage integration program to include Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 systems, joining our list of existing integrations with NetApp … Read more
  • Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agents
    Today, we’re excited to announce that Claude Sonnet 4.5, powered by Anthropic, is now available in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high- performing foundation models from leading AI companies. This new model builds upon Claude 4’s foundation to achieve state-of-the-art performance in coding and complex agentic applications. Claude Sonnet … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS X-Ray and more (September 29, 2025)
    Wow, can you all believe it? We’re nearing the end of the year already. Next thing you know, AWS re:Invent will be here! This is our biggest event that takes place every year in Las Vegas from December 1st to December 5th where we reveal and release many of the things that we’ve been working … Read more
  • Accelerate AI agent development with the Nova Act IDE extension
    Today, I’m excited to announce the Nova Act extension — a tool that streamlines the path to build browser automation agents without leaving your IDE. The Nova Act extension integrates directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Kiro, and Cursor, helping you to create web-based automation agents using natural language with the Nova … Read more
  • Power in Partnership: How Veeam’s Security Ecosystem Strengthens Cyber Resilience
    Modern cyberattacks are complex campaigns designed to move fast and disrupt critical operations. Security tools excel at spotting threats in production but often lack visibility into backup environments. Meanwhile, data backup platforms are built for fast recovery but have historically operated in isolation from the security operations center (SOC). This separation creates blind spots just … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Developer, AWS Step Functions, AWS Cloud Club Captain deadline, and more (September 22, 2025)
    Three weeks ago, I published a post about the new AWS Region in New Zealand (ap-southeast-6). This led to an incredible opportunity to visit New Zealand, where I met passionate builders and presented at several events including Serverless and Platform Engineering meetup, AWS Tools and Programming meetup, AWS Cloud Clubs in Auckland, and AWS Community … Read more
  • Get Ready for Dreamforce: Keynote Highlights, Major Themes, and How to Connect With Us!
    Can you believe it? Dreamforce is around the corner. Whether you’re a Dreamforce veteran or attending for the first time, there’s nothing quite like the rush of learning, networking, and (let’s be honest) tracking down the partner with the best coffee around campus. Dreamforce 2025 promises a mix of fresh ideas, inspiration, and opportunities to … Read more
  • How Generative AI Can Strengthen Your Security Posture
    Key Takeaways: Triage faster, miss less: Generative AI (GenAI)-based solutions can turn floods of alerts into concise, context-rich summaries so analysts can act in minutes. Prioritize by real risk: AI tools blend threats data and indicators of compromise with identity, data-sensitivity, and context to score risk and route to the right playbook. Automate the paper … Read more
  • Multi-Agent AI for SQL Databases: Turning Natural Language into Business Insights
    Following on from Veeam Built the AI Revolution While Others Prepared, this post shares a specific project: how I built AI agents that can transform natural language questions into intelligent database interactions. Key Takeaways: SQL AI Agents make databases conversational: Multi-agent systems translate plain-English business questions into accurate SQL queries, bridging the gap between technical … Read more
  • Qwen models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
    Today we are adding Qwen models from Alibaba in Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock continues to expand model choice by adding access to Qwen3 open weight foundation models (FMs) in a full managed, serverless way. This release includes four models: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B (Dense). Together, these models feature both mixture-of-experts (MoE) … Read more
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock
    In March, Amazon Web Services (AWS) became the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 in a serverless way by launching it as a fully managed, generally available model in Amazon Bedrock. Since then, customers have used DeepSeek-R1’s capabilities through Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications, benefiting from the Bedrock’s robust guardrails and comprehensive … Read more
  • From Gaps to Gains: The Measurable Impact of Data Resilience Maturity
    The reality is resilience is no longer just about having a backup. It’s about whether your systems and your people can perform under pressure. From ransomware to regulatory scrutiny, enterprises today are carrying more risk than ever. That’s why a maturity-based approach to data management, protection, and recovery isn’t optional anymore. It’s the difference between … Read more
  • What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery?
    Key Takeaways: Cloud disaster recovery (DR) is a strategy and set of processes that use cloud-based resources and services to back up, replicate, and restore critical data and IT systems in the event of a disaster, such as hardware failure, cyberattack, or natural catastrophe. It aligns architecture, automation, and runbooks to meet recovery point objective/recovery … Read more
  • Entra ID (Azure AD) Backup Solutions: Protecting Your Identity Infrastructure
    Key Takeaways: Native Entra ID protection is limited: Recycle Bin soft-deletion is not true backup and offers short retention windows that aren’t suitable for long-term, compliant recovery. Third-party backups close critical gaps: They protect against insider threats and mass deletions by offering full, independent recovery capabilities. Granular, attribute-level restores are non-negotiable: Fixing a single user … Read more
  • Choosing Your Go-to-Market: VAR, MSP, or MSSP with Veeam Data Platform
    Key Takeaways: VARs can boost profitability by combining Veeam Backup & Replication licenses with implementation, migration, and training services. MSPs use the Veeam Service Provider Console to build recurring revenue streams with scalable BaaS and DRaaS offerings. MSSPs strengthen their security stack by leveraging Veeam’s immutable backups, Secure Restore, and orchestration for end-to-end cyber resilience. … Read more
  • Cyber and Data Resilience: How CrowdStrike and Veeam Empower End-to-End Threat Response
    Ransomware attacks are evolving, and so are expectations for response and recovery. Organizations must demonstrate that they can defend their data, detect threats quickly, and recover with confidence. That’s why Veeam and CrowdStrike have come together to unify data resilience into a coordinated approach. By enhancing security visibility and breaking down silos between backup and … Read more
  • AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management
    A month ago, I shared that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS), with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the fifteenth consecutive year. In 2024, AWS was named as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, Cloud-Native … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)
    Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
    As someone who has been using macOS since 2001 and Amazon EC2 Mac instances since their launch 4 years ago, I’ve helped numerous customers scale their continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. Today, I’m excited to share that Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available. Development teams building … Read more
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