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 …
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 …
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Today, we’re announcing LocalStack integration in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the AWS Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July …
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Key Takeaways: VMware’s partner program overhaul is forcing change. Broadcom’s acquisition introduced new licensing, SKU consolidations, and stricter partner tiers, leaving many partners and customers reevaluating their virtualization strategies. Uncertainty creates opportunity for advisors. Organizations are actively exploring alternatives. Veeam ProPartners can step in with guidance, data migration services, and modernization expertise to become trusted …
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Today’s technology environment is scaling at an explosive rate. This makes for thrilling growth opportunities but the innovation invites cyberthreats. And data integrity remains at the mercy of natural disasters, power outages, and human error. Data resilience is the measure of how quickly and thoroughly an organization can fight off, overcome, or bounce back from …
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Robust security measures are not mere features; they are essential components of any viable product or service. Security must be ingrained in every aspect of design and operation of software. With rapid advancements in AI and the looming influence of quantum computing, the state of “secure enough” has changed dramatically. Technologies that promise groundbreaking capabilities …
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Summer has drawn to a close here in Utrecht, where I live in the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Community Day 2025, hosted at the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The single-day event will bring together over 500 cloud practitioners from across the Netherlands, featuring 25 breakout sessions across five technical …
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Key Takeaways: Cloud data protection is the practice of securing, backing up, and recovering workloads hosted in public or hybrid clouds, so data stays confidential, available, and compliant across its lifecycle. Why it matters: Cloud providers secure the platform, but you are responsible for your data, configurations, and recovery outcomes (i.e., the Shared Responsibility Model). …
Key Takeaways Simplified operations: V9 reduces infrastructure overhead (including certain Veeam Cloud Connect dependencies), unifies tenant management, and streamlines reporting, billing, and administration for service providers. Centralized control and automation: A new API Control Center and enhanced management tools give managed service providers (MSPs) one place to automate tasks, enforce security, and manage Veeam Software …
Key Takeaways: Cloud data management is the plan to organize, protect, govern, and optimize data stored that’s in the cloud to ensure its security, availability, and compliance from creation to deletion. It’s bigger than backup. Backup is one pillar, but cloud data management also covers visibility, lifecycle policies, access control, cost optimization, and compliance. Hybrid …
