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Self-Managed vs. Managed Cloud Hosting: Understanding the Trade-Offs

Cloud hosting lets you scale your infrastructure without buying expensive physical servers. But picking a provider is only the first step. You also need to decide who will manage your servers, handle security updates, and resolve technical issues as they arise. Companies exploring cloud VPS servers should consider whether they have the technical resources to […]

Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg

Today, we’re announcing a simple, cost-effective path for data lake modernization. Amazon S3 Tables now support managed migration of your Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg. Migration works with Parquet tables in Amazon S3 that are registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and allows you to upgrade your data lake with no pipelines to […]

NIS2 Doesn’t Require On-Premises Hosting: What the Directive Leaves European Buyers to Decide

Does NIS2 require on-premise credential management? No. The directive does not require organizations to self-host their password or secrets manager, nor does it prescribe a cloud deployment. Article 21 mandates appropriate and proportionate cybersecurity measures based on the organization’s risk exposure, the state of the art, and implementation costs. However, the Directive does not express […]

Building AI Applications on AWS: How to Balance Performance, Scalability, and Cloud Costs

An AI feature that performs well during testing can become expensive or frustratingly slow once customers start using it. Every additional request consumes resources, and a model that delivers excellent results may still be unsuitable if its response times or operating costs don’t match your product. Amazon Bedrock makes it possible to build applications using […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6.1 Terra on Bedrock, Step Functions as agent tools, and more (November 2, 2026)

The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams already trust became callable without a rewrite. In the […]

Why It’s Time to Revisit the Build vs. Buy Question for Enterprise AI

When genAI exploded onto the scene in 2022, enterprises worked through the typical calculus of whether to build their own AI solutions or buy technology from vendors. The vast majority arrived at a clear conclusion: Building LLMs in-house was too complex for most organizations, and “buy” was the better approach. Fast forward four years, however, […]