Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had…
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had…
AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox…
Key Takeaways: Securing cloud data is your responsibility, not your provider’s. AWS and Microsoft Azure protect the infrastructure; protecting the data is on you. Misconfiguration and ransomware are the leading…
Organizations invest in backup to ensure they can recover when the unexpected happens. But today’s attackers understand that recovery is often the greatest obstacle to a successful attack. Rather than…
Modern applications have crossed a tipping point. What once began as isolated modernization efforts—containerizing select services, experimenting with Kubernetes, or migrating workloads to the cloud—has become a full-scale transformation. Today,…
For many years, the hypervisor conversation wasn’t on top of everyone’s mind. Most organizations had a stable virtualization platform, mature operational procedures, backup and recovery tooling, monitoring, patching workflows, and…
The facts are hard to ignore. The number of virtual machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization grew 417% in 2025. Red Hat has assessed more than 1.46 million VMs…
Key Takeaways: Non-human identities (service accounts, workloads, bots, pipelines, and AI agents) now outnumber human ones by more than 80 to 1, and most teams can’t say how many they…
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few…
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community…