Author Archives: Lucian Systems

AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026)

It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless services to solve real problems in a single afternoon. This week I am […]

Banking is winning the trust war. Everyone else is falling behind

Banking is double digits ahead of even its most highly regulated peers (government and healthcare) in winning consumer trust. The Thales Digital Trust Index 2026 reports 57% of customers trust the banking sector, compared to 44% and below for every other industry. Banks are doing something different and being rewarded for it. CIAM industry professional […]

Mapping the Attack Surface: Lasso Security’s Eliya Saban on GEO-Based AI Manipulation

ES In conversation with Elya Saban — Security Researcher, Lasso Security To start, tell us a little about yourself, your background, how you got to where you are, and what you’re focused on right now. I’m Eliya Saban, a Security Researcher on Lasso Security’s research team, focused on the offensive side of AI security. An […]

Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs

Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within AWS Lambda that lets you run code generated by users or AI in isolated, stateful execution environments. You get virtual machine level isolation, near-instant launch and resume, and direct control over environment lifecycle and state, all without managing infrastructure or building expertise […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)

Last week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value […]

Leading AI SOC Platforms for 2026: How to Choose the Right One

Most AI SOC platform evaluations fail because the demo was built around features, not organizational fit. An impressive MTTD against the platform’s best-case scenario means nothing if that same figure can’t be replicated in real-world conditions; specifically yours. This guide gives buyers the framework to make their decision based on compatibility, not general capabilities. Define […]

Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads. AWS is the first major cloud provider to support NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 instances are accelerated by these GPUs with custom sixth-generation […]

Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automatic) and scheduled scaling […]