AWS re:Invent 2025 is officially in the books. The headlines are all about agentic AI, Nova models, and AI factories, but if you are in the business of securing your environments you may be asking a more practical question: “What from this week actually moves the needle on security and compliance?”
The day is October 20, 2025, and the most recent major AWS outage is fresh in my mind. Around 3 am EDT, AWS began investigating the incident affecting the us-east-1 region. This story is one that’s played out many times before–a widespread outage in one region or another affecting multiple companies’ primary hosting region.
Life is full of ups and downs, and no one can avoid them. This includes natural disasters, accidents, and loss of loved ones. The digital world operates on a similar principle. It’s not a question of if a cyber attack or system failure will happen; it’s when…
Networking is somehow simultaneously overpromoted and severely underutilized. In some ways, you might feel like it’s too late to start growing a network on LinkedIn, and perhaps you have reconciled with the fact that expanding your connections beyond the same 50 people…