You run a security scan on code that looks perfectly fine. It compiles. The logic reads cleanly. A colleague reviewed it and moved on. Then your SAST tool — a static application security testing scanner that analyzes source code for security flaws without executing it which flags a SQL injection pattern that went through three […]

Monitoring and observability get treated as synonyms in a lot of job postings and vendor slide decks. They aren’t. The difference isn’t a matter of tool sophistication as it’s a difference in what questions you’re even capable of asking when something goes wrong. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Monitoring watches for failure […]

Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback […]

Not every workload belongs on shared infrastructure. Some industries reach for bare metal because regulations demand it. Others reach for it because their applications simply cannot tolerate the performance overhead that comes with shared hardware,  the kind of overhead that accumulates quietly, invisibly, and then all at once becomes a real operational problem. The industries […]

Editor’s note: Updated July 2026 to reflect current industry context When businesses hire consultants to help implement an AI or data modernization project, their main goal is to achieve whatever outcomes they hope to realize via the project. But that doesn’t mean a good consultant simply completes the project and delivers the results. On the […]

The open standard Anthropic published in November 2024 has moved faster than most anticipated. MCP now sits beneath a growing layer of production agent workflows, and the infrastructure choices teams make at this level have real operational consequences. Picking the wrong server for a given task means more than slower output: misconfigured credentials, runaway compute […]

As CFOs evaluate investments in AI, cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and compliance initiatives, there’s one question they should ask first: Do we have a complete and accurate picture of the technology we already own and operate? Every device, application, cloud workload, and software license affects cost, risk, and return. But in many organizations, the data […]

You signed up for cloud storage because the monthly price per gigabyte looked reasonable. Then the bill arrived and there was a line item you had not planned for, one that had nothing to do with how much data you were storing. It had to do with how much data had left. That is what […]

AI agents that book meetings, query databases, and send summary emails without human review are already being deployed in production. This is not a future scenario. Teams are deploying this right now, and the security questions it raises are genuinely different from what any standard application checklist was built to handle — different in ways that […]

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]