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Test your applications against AWS locally with AWS Emulator
Today we’re announcing AWS Emulator, a local emulator for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that you run on your machine. The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI),…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)
Most of the cost of adopting something new isn’t the new thing, it’s the move. Moving a Hive table to Apache Iceberg has typically meant weeks…
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Data doesn’t retire, it just gets cheaper to keep
Retention horizons across Asia Pacific now outlast the storage hardware, the vendor contract, and the career of the administrator who configured them. That makes long-term retention…
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Retire the Landing Zone: Instant Recoveries Now Run Straight From Dell Data Domain
For years, Data Domain users running Veeam Backup & Replication often paid for two backup tiers: a fast disk-based landing zone for quick restores, and Data…
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When Everything Else Fails: Why Your Backup Platform Is Your Last Line of Defense
Whether you are sitting in a boardroom making strategic decisions, managing a security operations center, or working a weekend shift keeping systems alive in a data…
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Backup from Storage Snapshots: How it works and when to use it
Key takeaways Backup from Storage Snapshots uses an array-based snapshot as the backup source, so backup reads do not run through the production datastore for the…
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Resilience by Design: Protecting Enterprise RAG on Red Hat OpenShift AI
Generative AI is moving from experimentation to production as organizations build AI assistants, knowledge discovery tools, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications that connect large…
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Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
Today, we’re announcing a simple, cost-effective path for data lake modernization. Amazon S3 Tables now support managed migration of your Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg.…
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Operational resilience is becoming the new standard for financial services technology leaders
APJ regulators want evidence that critical services can recover, not simply confirmation that backups exist. Something has shifted in the conversations I have with financial institution…
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AWS News
- Test your applications against AWS locally with AWS Emulator
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AgentCore Runtime V2, Amazon DynamoDB bulk put items, and more (November 9, 2026)
- Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
- AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Polly Generative engine, TorchNeuron for Trainium, and more (October 26, 2026)
Veeam Blog
- Data doesn’t retire, it just gets cheaper to keep
- Retire the Landing Zone: Instant Recoveries Now Run Straight From Dell Data Domain
- When Everything Else Fails: Why Your Backup Platform Is Your Last Line of Defense
- Backup from Storage Snapshots: How it works and when to use it
- Resilience by Design: Protecting Enterprise RAG on Red Hat OpenShift AI
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