Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and technical leadership. These passionate individuals represent diverse regions and technical specialties, demonstrating notable expertise and dedication to knowledge sharing within the AWS community. From AI and machine learning to serverless architectures and security, our new Heroes showcase the […]

Why DRaaS Is Changing the Game for Disaster Preparedness

Editor’s Note (2025 Update): This article has been refreshed to include current DRaaS and business continuity trends, including AI-driven failover orchestration, predictive risk modeling, and autonomous recovery simulations. In today’s fast-paced digital world, organizations cannot afford prolonged downtime or data loss. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers a cloud-based solution that replicates and protects […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)

AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet stopped for those of us in other parts of the globe. The community, customers, partners, and colleagues enjoyed a day of learning and networking last week at the AWS Summit Mexico City and the AWS Summit Jakarta. Photo by […]

Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available

Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we previewed during AWS re:Invent, is now generally available. Automated Reasoning checks helps you validate the accuracy of content generated by foundation models (FMs) against a domain knowledge. This can help prevent factual errors due to AI hallucinations. The […]

Removing friction from Amazon SageMaker AI development

Image source: https://behaviorgap.com/the-magic-of-incremental-change/ When we launched Amazon SageMaker AI in 2017, we had a clear mission: put machine learning in the hands of any developer, irrespective of their skill level. We wanted infrastructure engineers who were “total noobs in machine learning” to be able to achieve meaningful results in a week. To remove the roadblocks […]

Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), a new AWS service that lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With Amazon EVS, you can deploy fully functional VCF environments in just hours using a guided workflow, while running your […]