Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

Starting today, you can use AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability to provision a dedicated and persistent Docker server directly within your CodeBuild project. With Docker Server capability, you can accelerate your Docker image builds by centralizing image building to a remote host, which reduces wait times and increases overall efficiency. From my benchmark, with this […]

How Can Predictive Big Data Analysis Be Used for Forecasting Sports Scores?

Data is being used more freely in the world of soccer/football across all aspects of the sport to help attain better results. This approach has proven effective at several clubs globally, with a leading example being Premier League side Brentford. The club utilizes analytics and predictive big data to identify players that could fit into […]

How to Simplify Large-Scale Unstructured Data Migrations to the Cloud

Migrating large volumes of unstructured data often measured in petabytes and encompassing billions of files, is a daunting task facing IT teams today. These files vary in type and size, from tiny logs to massive video files, and are often scattered across legacy systems, local storage arrays, and different business units. Enterprises commonly face major […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)

Micah Walter Micah Walter is a Sr. Solutions Architect supporting enterprise customers in the New York City region and beyond. He advises executives, engineers, and architects at every step along their journey to the cloud, with a deep focus on sustainability and practical design. In his free time, Micah enjoys the outdoors, photography, and chasing […]

The Compelling Case for Bare Metal Cloud

Cloud computing is more complex than ever in today’s digital infrastructure landscape. For enterprises, a major goal that has emerged is the quest to optimize cloud strategies to suit business needs, which accounts for the rise in cloud repatriation and the resurgence of private cloud adoption as companies seek the solution that is right for […]

Securing the Shared Cloud: An Overview of Multi-Tenant Environment Frameworks 

With on-demand scalability, high availability, and economic efficiency, cloud computing has ushered in a new era of digital transformation empowering companies. Among the main paradigms of the cloud is multi-tenancy, in which several tenants share the same infrastructure, applications, or databases while keeping isolated and safe access to their own data. This shared model does, […]

The Shifting MarTech Landscape in 2025

The world of marketing technology (MarTech) has seen explosive growth and transformation over the past decade. What once started as a fragmented ecosystem of isolated tools has now blossomed into a vast, interconnected network that empowers marketers with advanced solutions to drive engagement, optimize campaigns, and deliver personalized customer experiences. Scott Brinker’s journey has been […]

Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, a feature that accelerates the transfer of data from an EBS snapshot, a highly durable backup of volumes stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to a new EBS volume. With Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate […]