Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2022

We are on the fourth year of our annual AWS Storage Day! Do you remember our first Storage Day 2019 and the subsequent Storage Day 2020? I watched Storage Day 2021, which was streamed live from downtown Seattle. We continue to hear from our customers about how powerful the Storage Day announcements and educational sessions […]

Green ICT Development and Sustainability in the 5.5G Era

The future is fast approaching. Organizations across industries are faced with embracing the digital advancements of our time while pushing for green development and sustainability. Ronald van Loon is a Huawei partner and attended Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week in Shenzhen China, to learn about Green Informations and Communications Technology, or Green ICT. Continuous innovation is […]

AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022

As an ex-.NET developer, and now Developer Advocate for .NET at AWS, I’m excited to bring you this week’s Week in Review post, for reasons that will quickly become apparent! There are several updates, customer stories, and events I want to bring to your attention, so let’s dive straight in! Last Week’s launches.NET developers, here […]

What’s the Difference Between a Shared Server and a Dedicated Server?

A customer-facing Internet presence is just about mandatory for modern businesses. Websites are essential instruments for companies venturing into the eCommerce space or simply wishing to provide customers with timely information about their products and services. The quality and performance of business websites can be the difference between an organization’s success and failure. While websites […]

Graviton Fast Start – A New Program to Help Move Your Workloads to AWS Graviton

With the Graviton Challenge last year, we helped customers migrate to Graviton-based EC2 instances and get up to 40 percent price performance benefit in as little as 4 days. Tens of thousands of customers, including 48 of the top 50 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers, use AWS Graviton processors for their workloads. In […]

The Fintech Landscape Today

The Nitty Gritty Although the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its existence, most of us have been using fintech in some form or another for quite some time. It’s a big part of personal and business financial services in most of the world, with Ernst & Young’s Global Fintech Adoption Index of 2019 showing that 64% […]

New – Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model

Today we are announcing the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. You can now purchase fully compliant AWS-provided licenses of Visual Studio with a per-user subscription fee. Amazon EC2 provides preconfigured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Visual Studio Professional 2022. You […]

3 Pillars of Open Source Security: SCA, Vulnerability Management, and DFIR

Open source software is now an inseparable part of most software projects. Research has estimated that as much as 90% of enterprise software is made up of open source components. However, while open source is beneficial for developers, it can be beneficial for malicious actors as well. If an attacker discovers an open source component […]