Backup Software Hidden Costs Nobody Mentions
Key takeaways Per-core licensing can charge more for the same job on denser hardware, while per-socket licensing penalizes spreading workloads across many small hosts. Storage and retention math, not the…
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering for higher recall on filtered searches
Today, we’re announcing metadata pre-filtering for Amazon S3 Vectors, which delivers higher recall on filtered queries by evaluating your metadata filter before the similarity search. You can filter on attributes…
Stop Calling It Cloud Storage: What Actually Makes a Backup Copy Attack-Resistant
Offsite, air-gapped, immutable, and recoverable are four different properties. Most backup strategies in Asia Pacific deliver one of them but assume they have all four. Ask an infrastructure team anywhere…
From APL to STIG: What Government IT Leaders Need to Know About Backup Compliance and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
If you’ve been managing IT infrastructure for a federal agency for any length of time, you know the U.S. Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL). The…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL that you can use to directly query operational data together with data stored in your data lake in Apache Iceberg…
Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share…
Backup Features Small Business IT Admins Should Demand
Key Takeaways Demand a full API (application programming interface) and CLI (command-line interface), not GUI (graphical user interface)-only operation. Scripting job creation, policy changes, and reporting keeps a one- or…
Beyond OADP: What Regulated OpenShift Environments Need to Prove Recovery
These days, it’s not enough to say an application is protected. Security, risk, and compliance teams want to know where a backup lives, who can access it, whether it can…
AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)
If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model…
Introducing enhanced custom event buses in Amazon EventBridge for enterprise-scale event-driven applications
Organizations building event-driven applications on Amazon EventBridge typically start with a single custom event bus in one account. This works well when a single team owns the architecture. As adoption…