Author Archives: Lucian Systems

AWS Interconnect is now generally available, with a new option to simplify last-mile connectivity

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, a managed private connectivity service that connects your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) directly to VPCs on other cloud providers. We’re also introducing AWS Interconnect – last mile, a new capability that simplifies how you establish high-speed, private connections to AWS from your […]

The Map Is Not the Territory: What Cyber Threat Maps Really Show

When CloudTweaks first covered live threat maps 10 years ago, the category felt genuinely new. A handful of vendors had built public-facing visualisations showing cyber attacks as animated arcs crossing a darkened globe, and the response from readers was immediate. The maps were arresting to look at, easy to share, and they communicated something that […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Mythos Preview in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Agent Registry, and more (April 13, 2026)

In my last Week in Review post, I mentioned how much time I’ve been spending on AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) workshops with customers this year. A common theme in those sessions is the need for better cost visibility. Teams are moving fast with AI, but as they go from experimenting to full production, finance and […]

Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems

I’m excited to announce Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). More than a decade ago, as an AWS trainer, I spent countless hours explaining the fundamental differences between object storage and file systems. My favorite analogy was comparing S3 objects […]

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

Photo credit: Ossewa Almost everyone at some point in their career has dealt with the deeply frustrating process of moving large amounts of data from one place to another, and if you haven’t, you probably just haven’t worked with large enough datasets yet. For Andy Warfield, one of those formative experiences was at UBC, working […]

The Flexibility Mandate: Balancing Cloud Innovation with On-Premise Security in Enterprise IT

The transition to cloud computing represents the most significant operational triumph of the twenty-first century. Over the past decade, the enterprise technology landscape has undergone a massive, fundamental transformation. Organizations across the globe have eagerly traded their ageing physical server racks for the limitless agility of the public cloud. For the vast majority of modern […]

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports cross-account safeguards with centralized control and management

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of cross-account safeguards in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, a new capability that enables centralized enforcement and management of safety controls across multiple AWS accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can specify a guardrail in a new Amazon Bedrock policy within the management account of your organization that automatically enforces […]