Twenty years ago this past week, Amazon S3 launched publicly on March 14, 2006. While Amazon Simple Storage Service is often considered the foundational storage service that defined cloud infrastructure, what began as a simple object storage service has grown into something far larger in scope and scale. As of March 2026, S3 stores more […]

In a previous world, the locations of critical information could be easily mapped on a single whiteboard. Home drives, departmental shares, and organized project folders were standard. Some industries also used document management systems for compliance. You could confidently indicate to an auditor, “Here. This is where we keep it.” As tools evolved, information management […]

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used […]

The Telus Digital breach confirms a new era of corporate espionage which is quiet, credential driven, and almost impossible to catch in real time. Canada does not usually sit at the center of global cybercrime headlines, but incidents involving major Canadian companies increasingly show how modern breaches actually unfold. Nobody received a ransom note. No […]

Today, we’re announcing a new feature of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) you can use to create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope. You can create general purpose bucket names across multiple AWS Regions with assurance […]

Architecture is no longer only about technology. It is about understanding where your technology physically and politically lives. Geopolitical resilience is not about building the most complex system. It is about choosing the right level of protection for the real level of risk. Multi-AZ and multi-region are not the same as geopolitical resilience – if […]

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and […]

The same technology defenders are counting on is already being used against them. Here’s where that leaves us. Security teams have always been playing catch-up. New attack surfaces emerge, defenders scramble to cover them, and the cycle repeats. That dynamic is as old as the profession. What’s different now is the velocity. Artificial intelligence hasn’t […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock as the default AI model provider. Once you complete setup, you can start chatting with your AI assistant immediately — […]

Following our discussion last week with ActionAI CEO Miriam Haart on the ethical mandates of autonomous systems, we continue our exploration into the mechanics of trust. While Haart addressed the cultural and ethical foundations of AI, the practical implementation of such systems requires a level of mathematical certainty that defines the next frontier of the […]