The last few years have brought significant changes, adoption and innovation to the cloud space. As 2023 begins, there’s an opportunity to consider what’s in store for the year ahead. From hybrid and remote work to changing authentication systems and managing multicloud environments, the cloud industry will continue to evolve and grow this year. Below […]

The cloud is becoming the primary place where work gets done. By 2025, Gartner estimates that enterprise spending on public cloud computing will overtake traditional IT hardware. Why? One reason is that cloud platforms have evolved to the point that they can now offer the performance necessary for mission-critical databases and applications or block data. […]

Today, we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US to honor the late civil rights leader’s life, legacy, and achievements. In this article, Amazon employees share what MLK Day means to them and how diversity makes us stronger. Coming back to our AWS Week in Review—it’s been a busy week! Last Week’s Launches […]

Application dependencies are the external components, libraries, and frameworks that a software application requires in order to function correctly. These dependencies may include things like operating system libraries, third-party libraries, and other software applications that the application relies on in order to run. For example, if an application is written in Python, it might have […]

A ransomware attack can bring your entire organization to a halt. Many state-sponsored and financially motivated threat actors often target email servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, to steal or encrypt confidential business data and sensitive information, such as PII, for ransom. Recently, FIN7—a highly active notorious ransomware group—was found targeting vulnerable Exchange Server organizations based […]

Happy New Year! As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to remind you of some 2023 predictions by AWS leaders for you to help prepare for the new year. You can also read the nine best things Amazon announced and AWS for Automotive at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in […]

The relationship between developers and the cloud was practically love at first sight. For years, migration to the cloud in countless industries continued unabated in light of its economy, flexibility, and scalability. But as cloud costs continue to skyrocket and as economic volatility has led to significant cost-cutting in businesses across the board, that is […]

At AWS, security is job zero. Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) encrypts all new objects by default. Now, S3 automatically applies server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object, unless you specify a different encryption option. SSE-S3 was first launched in 2011. As Jeff wrote at the time: “Amazon S3 server-side encryption handles […]

In this article, we will be going through the process of switching from the Exchange Classic Hybrid setup to a full Exchange Modern Hybrid topology. We will also see how to resolve the issue if something goes wrong during the process. Process to Switch from Exchange Classic Hybrid to Modern Hybrid Before moving forward, we […]

For the past several years, most organizations have made it their priority to shift much of their applications and data from on-premises to the cloud. However, despite widespread cloud adoption, organizations are still struggling to achieve workload efficiency, deepen cloud maturity and ensure that their teams are fully cloud literate. As organizations evaluate their approach […]