In this episode of the CloudTweaks Podcast, host Steve Prentice sits down with Francis Martens, CEO and co‑founder of Exalate, to explore one of the most urgent and least understood challenges in modern enterprise technology: integration in the age of AI agents. As Steve frames it in the opening, AI agents are beginning to act […]
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In the early days of cloud computing, AWS supported intensive learning for builders in a physical space called the AWS Pop-up Lofts in cities worldwide. These spaces were accessible to startup entrepreneurs, developers, and others interested in learning more about AWS for events, meetings, and co-working. With the recent emergence of generative AI, AWS Gen […]
Start at the KPI and work backward. Most 90-day plans fail because they start at the other end, with the data or the tool, and focus on selecting tools and automating workflows. KPI: Pick a number that is important to the business that has struggled to move. Action: Understand what actions need to be taken, […]
Last week, the OpenSearch and Valkey teams visited Seoul to meet open source developers and contributors in the Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of open source projects and emerging agent AI gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects […]
Many large organisations run their finance, procurement and supply chain on SAP, which means the software sitting around SAP decides who can approve a payment, who can create a vendor, and who can quietly do both. That is the job these five products do. They handle access risk, segregation of duties, user provisioning, role design […]
Microsoft 365 migrations used to be a defined problem. Move mailboxes, verify routing, close the ticket. That framing no longer holds. Today’s migration projects routinely encompass Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Active Directory, user identities, permissions, and the collaboration data that organizations have built operational dependencies around. Each workload carries its own data model, its own permission […]
If you ask an AI engineer what the biggest barrier to continued AI technology advancement is, you’ll likely hear about computing power. Practices like enhancing model design and improving the quality of data ingested by AI tools might be factors too. But at the end of the day, compute resources remain the greatest constraint on […]
How do you secure AI agents and non-human identities? The short answer: treat their identities the same way you’d treat any other non-human identity – scoped, credentialed, monitored, and revocable – then layer on the extra controls that agents specifically need because they call tools and chain actions in ways ordinary service accounts do not. […]
Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in fields like AI, serverless, and containers together for direct collaboration, technical deep-dives, and feedback sessions […]
Healthcare organizations and financial firms don’t pick their infrastructure the way a startup picks a cloud tier. The regulatory pressure is different. The audit exposure is different. And when a breach happens, the consequences don’t stay inside the IT department, they reach into legal, into executive accountability, into public trust that took years to build, […]