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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

  • Veeam Kasten Announces Initial Support of SUSE Virtualization 
    It’s no secret that the current virtualization industry is undergoing a sea change.  With recent large acquisitions, elevating licensing costs, deteriorating product support, and the demand for hybrid and multi-cloud support, interoperability, and flexibility, many organizations are looking to re-platform away from legacy virtualization platforms and adopt a more flexible cloud native approach. At the … Read more
  • Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock
    As we preannounced at AWS re:Invent 2024, you can now use Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock to generate high-quality images from text descriptions in a wide range of styles to accelerate the creation of concept art, visual effects, and detailed product imagery for customers in media, gaming, advertising, and retail. In October 2024, … Read more
  • Building Data & Operational Resilience for Cities
    The cyber threat landscape has drastically changed over the past decade leaving city governments vulnerable to their technical debt, and cyberattacks from bad actors, insiders, and nation states. The perfect storm of exponential data growth, IT management complexity, and cyber threats has pushed cyber risk levels to an unacceptable all-time high. Data sprawl and a … Read more
  • A New Era Dawns for KubeCampus.io
    We hope this blog finds you well in your Kubernetes learning journey! In the dynamic world of technology, staying up to date with the latest tools and platforms is crucial for professionals and enthusiasts alike. So, we’re thrilled to announce the next phase of the KubeCampus.io journey! After three years as an independent site, we … Read more
  • New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases
    Today we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance runs on the 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a … Read more
  • And that’s a wrap!
    After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last … Read more
  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)
    The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and … Read more
  • New for VeeamON 2025: Technical Workshops! 
    I am super excited to share the newest innovation for VeeamON 2025, technical workshops! Having been involved in every VeeamON, I always look to evolve the experience, and this is a program that I piloted at the Veeam 100 Summit for the last two years. See this blog post from one of the Veeam 100 … Read more
  • Announcing the Veeam Innovation and Data Resilience Awards
    We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Veeam Data Resilience Awards! This year’s award season promises to be more exciting than ever, as we recognize the most innovative and resilient achievements in the realm of data management and business continuity. Six finalists will be invited to VeeamON 2025 to be celebrated and to … Read more
  • Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)
    Equipped with up to eight AMD Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), AMD EPYC (Milan) processors with up to 192 cores, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), up to 8 TiB of SSD-based instance storage, and up to 2 TiB of memory, the new F2 instances are available in two sizes, and are ready to accelerate your genomics, multimedia … Read more
  • Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Joins the VCSP Program
    For the past decade, Veeam has delivered innovative data protection solutions specifically designed for cloud and managed service providers (MSPs). With a focus on enabling scalable BaaS and DRaaS offerings, we have consistently supported our partners in meeting the growing demands of the market. As the landscape continues to evolve towards as-a-Service models, we are … Read more
  • The Veeam Vanguard Program Celebrates 10 Years!  
    It´s that time of the year where we open up renewals and nominations for next years class of Veeam Vanguards! Picking Vanguards is not an easy task considering how many great applications there are, but we’re happy that there’s such a huge interest in the community.   10 Years of Veeamazing Goodness  The Veeam Vanguard program … Read more
  • Veeam Immutability: Everything You Need to Know
    With ransomware attacks becoming a daily challenge, immutability in backups is no longer a luxury — it’s essential. Veeam delivers a strong, practical approach to immutability, giving businesses tamper-proof data protection that safeguards critical information. In this blog, we’ll break down Veeam’s unique approach to immutable backups, explaining the steps to set it up and its real-world … Read more
  • Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace
    Today, we are announcing Buy with AWS, a new way to discover and purchase solutions available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner sites. You can use Buy with AWS to accelerate and streamline your product procurement process on websites outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This feature provides you the ability to find, try, and … Read more
  • Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes to help data scientists and developers of all skill sets to get started training and fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) in minutes with state-of-the-art performance. They can now access optimized recipes for training and fine-tuning popular publicly available FMs such as Llama 3.1 405B, Llama … Read more
  • AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators
    Building on the work that we and our partners have been doing for many years, Amazon is committing up to $100 million in cloud technology and technical resources to help existing, dedicated learning organizations reach more learners by creating new and innovative digital learning solutions, all as part of the AWS Education Equity Initiative. The … Read more
  • Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
    Today, we announced a new capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight that helps users perform scenario analyses to find answers to complex problems quickly. This AI-assisted data analysis experience helps business users find answers to complex problems by guiding them step-by-step through in-depth data analysis—suggesting analytical approaches, automatically analyzing data, and summarizing findings with suggested … Read more
  • Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
    As a data scientist, I’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of making machine learning (ML) accessible to business analysts, marketing analysts, data analysts, and data engineers who are experts in their domains without ML experience. That’s why I’m particularly excited about today’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcement that Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing the preview of multimodal toxicity detection with image support in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This new capability detects and filters out undesirable image content in addition to text, helping you improve user experiences and manage model outputs in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails helps you implement safeguards for generative AI applications … Read more
  • New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval
    Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces four enhancements that streamline how you can analyze data with generative AI: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (preview) – A fully managed capability of Amazon Bedrock that streamlines the generation of valuable insights from unstructured, multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos. With Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, you can build … Read more
  • Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)
    Today, Amazon Bedrock has introduced in preview two capabilities that help reduce costs and latency for generative AI applications: Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing – When invoking a model, you can now use a combination of foundation models (FMs) from the same model family to help optimize for quality and cost. For example, with the … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place
    Today, we’re introducing Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, a new capability that gives you access to over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation models (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, you can now discover, test, and deploy new models from enterprise providers such as IBM and Nvidia, specialized models such as Upstages’ Solar Pro for Korean language … Read more
  • Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans to help data scientists train large foundation models (FMs) within their timelines and budgets and save them weeks of effort in managing the training process based on compute availability. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we introduced SageMaker HyperPod to reduce the time to … Read more
  • Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance, a new innovation to easily and centrally manage and maximize GPU and Trainium utilization across generative AI model development tasks, such as training, fine-tuning, and inference. Customers tell us that they’re rapidly increasing investment in generative AI projects, but they face challenges in … Read more
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID: Identification + Restoration = Business Resilience
    You may recall this year’s VeeamON included a Top-Secret Session teasing an exciting new product offering. Fast forward, and we’re now thrilled to announce Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID is here! Why Back Up Microsoft Entra ID? You’ve probably heard the saying “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to … Read more
  • Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
    Today, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, which is a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI, bringing together widely-adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities. At its core is SageMaker Unified Studio (preview), a single data and AI development environment for data exploration, preparation and integration, big data processing, fast SQL analytics, … Read more
  • Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
    Today, we announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift support for zero-ETL integrations from applications. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies all your data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse … Read more
  • Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
    Today, I’m very excited to announce the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, a capability that unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse is a … Read more
  • New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
    Amazon DynamoDB, a serverless NoSQL database, has been a go-to solution for over one million customers to build low-latency and high-scale applications. As data grows, organizations are constantly seeking ways to extract valuable insights from operational data, which is often stored in DynamoDB. However, to make the most of this data in Amazon DynamoDB for … Read more
  • Discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI securely with Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance
    Today, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, which is a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI, bringing together widely-adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities. This announcement includes Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance, a set of capabilities that streamline the management of data and AI assets. Data teams often face challenges … Read more
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