Skip to the content

Dustin Ward

Cloud Engineer

Menu
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Contact Me

Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI

By Dustin Ward

Business leaders are facing a familiar challenge at an unfamiliar scale. Every organization is being asked to move faster as markets change quickly, customer expectations continue to rise, and technology advances at a pace that…

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today, Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances are generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. R9g instances are memory-optimized and deliver up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based R8g instances, powered by the…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

By Dustin Ward

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs…

Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs

By Dustin Ward

Summary This post is for technical decision makers evaluating where to run production PostgreSQL workloads. It compares two valid operating models—self-managed PostgreSQL and a managed database service—through business and operational outcomes: control, engineering capacity, resilience,…

The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost

By Dustin Ward

This blog post is the second of a four-part series called The Economics of Agent Optimization which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points to help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a…

The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane

By Dustin Ward

For decades, cybersecurity defenders have relied on a relatively straightforward model: a vulnerability is disclosed, security teams assess exposure, test available fixes, deploy patches into production, and ultimately close the risk before attackers can exploit…

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 … 1,231 Next

Recent Posts

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)
  • Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment
  • GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry
  • How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop
  • The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents

Tags

ARM AWS AWS Cloud AWSCloud AWS Community AWS Training Azure Azure Data Factory Azure Functions Azure Maps Azure Monitor AzureStack Builders Certification Cloud Cloud Computing Community Cosmos DB CosmosDB DataFactory Functions Graph IoT Learning Log Analytics Maps mentor Microsoft monitor News NoSQL OMS PowerShell Resource Manager Security SendGrid Serverless success tag1 tag2 tag3 tag4 tag5 Training VSCode

Follow Me

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. I assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}