Category Archives: Blog

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available

When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters. You need instances that deliver higher throughput per vCPU, faster memory access, and more network bandwidth, all while keeping your costs in check. Today I am happy to announce the […]

Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager

If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down. As certificate validity periods get shorter (the Certification Authority (CA)/Browser Forum mandates reduced maximum validity to 100 days starting March 2027, and to 47 days by 2029), manual […]

MSP Challenges and Opportunities in 2026: Consolidation, Compliance, and AI

The managed services industry keeps shifting. Cybersecurity threats are growing more targeted, cloud adoption continues to accelerate, and regulatory demands are expanding across nearly every sector — and in 2026, managed service providers are expected to do far more than simply maintain IT infrastructure, because clients want strategic partners who can strengthen security, support compliance […]

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 […]