Author Archives: Lucian Systems

How to Control Hidden Cloud Costs Efficiently

As businesses increasingly embrace the cloud, the complexities of managing cloud expenses also increase. While cloud services can provide significant business advantages but also introduce unexpected costs that may erode your budget if not carefully monitored. It has become a concern for many organizations and has left them grappling with hidden fees that can accumulate […]

How Cloud-Based Virtual Labs Are Reshaping STEM Education

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education has always relied on hands-on experiments. Practical learning, whether mixing chemicals in a lab, testing circuits, or coding programs, is essential. But, traditional labs can be expensive, require a lot of space, and limit access to students who aren’t physically there. That’s where cloud-based virtual labs are changing […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)

Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared […]

Are you getting virus notifications on your Mac? Here’s how to stop them!

Virus notifications can be quite concerning, and they are definitely alarming for any Mac user, regardless of how much experience they have. The last thing you want is a virus on your Mac, as it can lead to data loss, performance issues, and other potential security breaches. Knowing how to identify legitimate threats and determining […]

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Drawing from this extensive scale of AI deployment, Jassy offered three key observations that have shaped Amazon’s approach to enterprise AI implementation. First is that as you get to […]

Top Challenges in High-Risk Payment Processing and How Businesses Can Overcome Them

Operating in a high-risk industry is challenging by definition. However, what makes it even more so is the additional issues businesses can face when trying to work with payment processors. These software tools may be meant to help businesses, but they often lead to issues of their own, particularly when you’re working with a sub-par […]

Do You Know Where your Sensitive Data is Lurking?

PII and other sensitive data are often hidden in enterprise unstructured data silos, in places it shouldn’t be, and storage teams need to know. Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive data sources has been a long-time concern of enterprise IT organizations in the digital age, spurring regulations several years and even decades old, […]

Cell-Based Microservices for Multi-Cloud

Over the past decade, the cloud delivery model has quickly become the most integrated way organizations use and get IT resources. Businesses are turning to multi-cloud solutions to fully leverage multiple cloud environments. Improved fault tolerance, reduced procurement costs, and freedom from vendor lock-in are key strategic advantages. Multi-cloud systems, being inherently decentralized and heterogeneous, […]

AWS Weekly roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, and more

I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite […]