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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable…
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What to Back Up First: SMB Data Priorities
Key Takeaways: Backup order should follow business impact, not what’s easiest to back up Financial, customer, and compliance data comes first, before general files or individual devices Microsoft 365, Google…
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Your OpenShift Environment Grew. Did Your Backup Strategy?
Getting VMs and containers running on Red Hat OpenShift is a milestone. But for platform engineering and operations teams, the real work starts after the migration is complete. Workloads grow.…
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Backup vs Sync: What Small Businesses Keep Getting Wrong
Key Takeaways Syncing keeps your files accessible. It doesn’t keep them protected. Those are two different jobs. Sync spreads a bad file just as fast as a good one, and…
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Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available
Today, Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances are generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. R9g instances are memory-optimized and deliver up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open…
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Protection That Moves With Your Workloads
Your workloads are always in motion, scaling up and down, spinning up in new places, and, over time, landing on infrastructure you weren’t running a year ago. The hypervisor world,…
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Veeam Named a Finalist in CRN’s Best of the Channel Awards
Veeam has been named a finalist in the 2026 CRN Best of the Channel Awards, recognized in the Channel Marketing Team category. It’s one of the channel’s most competitive honors,…
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Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
Twenty years ago today, Jeff Barr wrote a blog post that launched the Amazon EC2 Beta. That single post introduced resizable Linux virtual servers in the cloud, billed by the…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, Local Zone in Las Vegas, and more (August 24, 2026)
During my time at AWS, I have always looked for opportunities to work with students. I have delivered over 50 talks at universities across the region, and watching the potential…