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AWS security is strongest when individual services are assigned clear jobs and their signals are brought together into an operating model. Identity controls reduce who can act, GuardDuty looks for suspicious behavior, Inspector finds exploitable software and exposure, Macie identifies sensitive-data risk in S3, IAM Access Analyzer highlights unintended or unused access, and Security Hub now provides a more unified way to correlate and prioritize those signals. That last point matters in 2026 because AWS has expanded Security Hub beyond its older role as mainly a findings aggregator. Security Hub…

AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) is retired. AWS ended testing on April 29, 2024, and the exam cannot be scheduled in 2026. This historical guide preserves the practical database-engineering knowledge once covered by its blueprint, including database selection, migrations, reliability, security and operations. Candidates seeking a current AWS data-focused credential can review AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01), which has broader data-engineering objectives and is not a like-for-like replacement. For professionals working in database administration, data engineering, or cloud architecture roles with significant data responsibilities, this credential carries…

The old “cloud wars” framing made sense when public-cloud adoption was often discussed as a winner-takes-all race. In 2026, that framing is less useful. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are all broad platforms with mature compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, AI, security, and management services. The practical question for an architecture team is not which provider wins an abstract contest. It is which platform best fits the organization’s workloads, identity model, data strategy, operating skills, commercial relationships, and regulatory constraints. A serious comparison therefore starts with architecture rather than…