Author Archives: Lucian Systems

GCP Monitoring: What to Track When Cloud Costs Start to Spiral

As organizations scale their workloads on Google Cloud Platform, cloud bills often grow faster than expected. What begins as a flexible, usage-based model can quickly turn into a cost challenge if visibility is missing. This is where GCP monitoring becomes critical, not only for performance and uptime, but also for understanding how cloud usage translates […]

MCP vs A2A: The Hidden Exposure Layer Powering Agentic AI

Agentic AI can think, act, and share information independently. That’s enormously beneficial. But it’s also created a hidden exposure layer – one that isn’t obvious in logs or endpoints but can put systems, data, and workflows at risk. Two protocols are behind this behavior: MCP, which expands exposure outwards to tools and systems, and A2A, […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)

Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference […]

The Storage & Memory Squeeze of 2026: Why IT Leaders Must Act Now on Unstructured Data

The year 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for enterprise IT infrastructure budgets. While a year ago tariffs were the primary concern, now exploding demands for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and high-capacity flash storage (NAND/SSDs) needed for AI infrastructure are adding to equipment shortages and price pressures. In particular, DRAM and SSD prices […]

Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances that deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads. G7e instances are accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and are well suited for a broad range of GPU-enabled […]

From Budget Drain to Business Value: The ROI of Cloud Maturity in 2026

Editor’s Note (January 2026): This piece has been updated to reflect the latest technological trends, including 2026 global spending forecasts and the critical “AI skills gap” currently impacting the global economy. For the past several years, most organizations have made it their priority to shift much of their applications and data from on-premises to the […]

Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available for memory-intensive workloads

Since a preview launch at AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz, available only on AWS. These SAP certified instances deliver the highest performance […]

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to […]