Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allows to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC

Since December 2019, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has allowed you to route all ingress traffic (also known as north – south traffic) to a specific network interface. You might use this capability for a number of reasons. For example, to inspect incoming traffic using an intrusion detection system (IDS) appliance or to route ingress […]

New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure

One of the great advantages of cloud computing is that you have access to programmable infrastructure. This allows you to manage your infrastructure as code and apply the same practices of application code development to infrastructure provisioning. AWS CloudFormation gives you an easy way to model a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, provision […]

What Is A Smart Contract?

Traditional contracts In order to understand what smart contracts are and how they can be used, we should first define what a traditional contract is. A contract can be broadly defined as a promise or performance given in exchange for a promise or performance. Traditionally this involves an offer or making a specific offer to […]

Amazon Textract Updates: Up to 32% Price Reduction in 8 AWS Regions and Up to 50% Reduction in Asynchronous Job Processing Times

Introduced at AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting and data from scanned documents that goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. In the past few months, we introduced specialized support for processing invoices and receipts and […]

Monitor, Evaluate, and Demonstrate Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Manager

Today, I’m happy to announce the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager, a new feature of AWS Backup that helps you monitor and evaluate the compliance status of your backups to meet business and regulatory requirements, and enables you to generate reports that help demonstrate compliance to auditors and regulators. AWS Backup is a fully […]

How IoT (Internet of Things) Cloud Services Stack Up Against DIY

The ever-increasing mass adoption of IoT devices is leading to a consistent rise in the data generated through these devices. Large corporations are cashing on this opportunity through their range of cloud services to handle IoT data.  Brands like Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have ventured into this market with an arsenal of lucrative options. Should […]

Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service

Interactive applications need to process requests and respond very quickly, and this requirement extends to all the components of their architecture. That is even more important when you adopt microservices and your architecture is composed of many small independent services that communicate with each other. For this reason, database performance is critical to the success […]