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    Using Systems Manager to Find Unmanaged EC2 Instances

    Brien Posey explains how AWS Systems Manager can automatically identify and fix issues preventing EC2 instances from being managed, including network, DNS, and endpoint configuration problems. 10/08/2025

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    AWS Takes the Ops Out of EC2 Container Hosting

    AWS introduced Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option combining EC2’s flexibility with Fargate’s simplicity by letting AWS manage all container infrastructure behind the scenes. 10/06/2025

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    A Last Resort AWS Repair Option for Extracting Data from Failed Windows Instances

    Brien M. Posey details a last-resort recovery method for AWS users to extract data from failed Windows EC2 instances by detaching the EBS volume and mounting it on a new instance. 10/03/2025

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    New AWS Knowledge MCP Server Offers AI Agents Real-Time AWS Docs and Context

    AWS has released the Knowledge MCP Server into general availability, giving AI agents and MCP clients free, real-time access to AWS documentation, best practices, and regional service availability data. 10/03/2025

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    Creating an AWS Systems Manager Delegated Administrator Account

    Brien Posey details how to create a delegated administrator account in AWS Systems Manager, a safer alternative to using the root account, designed for specific administrative tasks with limited permissions to reduce the risk of full organizational compromise. 10/01/2025

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    AWS First Hyperscaler to Offer Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 Frontier Model

    AWS became the first cloud giant to offer Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 4.5 model, which launched Sept. 29 in Amazon Bedrock for coding, reasoning, and complex agentic applications. 09/30/2025

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    AWS Upgrades .NET Modernization After Microsoft/GitHub Tooling Debut

    AWS updated its Transform for .NET service with new transformation reports that provide detailed visibility into AI-powered app modernization, surfacing blockers, fixes, and security remediations for compliance and oversight, just a couple days after Microsoft and GitHub announced their own .NET app modernization with Copilot. 09/25/2025

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    Automatically Rotating AWS Secrets, Part 2

    Brien Posey continues his walkthrough of a practical setup for secure, automatic AWS secret rotation: create an IAM role, spin up EC2, connect to RDS SQL Server, store creds in AWS Secrets Manager, and prep rotation with a few lines of PowerShell 09/23/2025

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    Amazon Repeats as a Leader in AI Code Assistants Report

    Amazon Q Developer was named a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, with the report citing its lifecycle-wide capabilities, enterprise integration, and customer-driven innovation. 09/22/2025

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    Protecting Your S3 Buckets with MFA Delete

    Brien Posey explains the Amazon S3 feature called MFA Delete that requires multifactor authentication before objects can be permanently deleted or versioning can be suspended, adding a safeguard against accidental or malicious data loss. 09/15/2025

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    Cloud Giants in GenAI 'Coopetition' Says Infrastructure Spending Report, Led by AWS

    A new Canalys report shows Amazon Web Services maintaining its cloud market lead as power and chip constraints slow capacity growth, while hyperscalers compete and collaborate on generative AI. 09/15/2025

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    Ten Easy Ways to Reduce Your EC2 Costs Part 2

    Brien Posey shares five more strategies to cut Amazon EC2 costs, from debloating AMIs and using ephemeral storage to leveraging AWS Graviton instances, optimizing networking, and replacing EC2 workloads with managed services like Amazon RDS. 09/11/2025

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    AWS Expert Outlines Five Strategies to Mitigate Cloud Security Risk

    AWS instructor Carlos Rivas details five core strategies IT teams can follow to reduce security risks in the cloud. 09/10/2025

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    Amazon Q Developer Adds Interactive Debugging for GitHub Code Reviews

    AWS announced a new interactive code review experience for Amazon Q Developer in GitHub, letting developers ask questions, apply suggested changes, and streamline pull request reviews directly inside GitHub. 09/10/2025

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    Four AWS Tips for Agentic AI in Financial Services

    AWS outlined four best practices for financial-services firms adopting agentic AI, emphasizing internal pilots, training, partnerships, and security, alongside three core pillars shaping autonomous finance. 09/09/2025

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    Ten Easy Ways to Reduce Your EC2 Costs, Part 1

    Brien Posey outlines practical ways to cut Amazon EC2 costs by right sizing instances, using Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, leveraging Spot Instances for interruptible work, enabling Auto Scaling, and scheduling instance shutdowns. 09/04/2025

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    AWS, DeepBrain AI Use AI to Detect AI in Private Offer

    AWS and DeepBrain AI have launched AI Detector, an enterprise-grade solution designed to identify and manage AI-generated content across multiple media types. 09/03/2025

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    Preparing for Amazon's Elastic VMware Service

    Brien Posey details how to prepare for AWS Elastic VMware Service -- covering Broadcom VCF 5.2.1 licensing, AWS Business Support and quota increases, VPC/CIDR planning, connectivity options, and storage choices to enable minimal-refactor VMware migrations. 09/02/2025

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