Sophos surveyed organisations worldwide for its State of Ransomware 2026 report and found that 56% had been hit by ransomware in the past year, up from 50% in the 2025 edition of the same survey. Among victims whose data was…
Most people who think they have a cloud backup actually have cloud sync. Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive copy files up as they change, which means a ransomware attack or an accidental mass-delete gets copied to the cloud just as…
Most teams don’t find out their backup strategy was broken until the moment they need it. An engineer deletes the wrong RDS instance, someone’s EC2 volume gets corrupted during a patch, or a ransomware note shows up on a file…
A bucket that grows by a few gigabytes a day doesn’t look like a budget problem. Eighteen months later, when finance asks why the AWS bill jumped and nobody has touched half those objects since the day they were written,…
Every serverless application built on AWS eventually needs a front door: a managed layer that turns a Lambda function into a real HTTP endpoint, handles authentication, and survives a traffic spike without falling over. That’s the job AWS API Gateway…
Amazon DynamoDB sits behind some of the busiest checkout flows and mobile backends on AWS, and it is usually the first database a serverless team in Ireland reaches for once an application outgrows a single Lambda function talking to local…
Google Cloud Run turns a container into a public HTTPS endpoint without asking anyone to manage a server, patch an OS, or size a cluster. You build an image, push it, run one deploy command, and Google’s infrastructure handles the…
A slow database query rarely stays a small problem for long. At ten requests a second, a 40-millisecond lookup is invisible. At ten thousand requests a second, that same query queues up connections until the whole application stalls behind it.…
Amazon RDS now runs PostgreSQL 18 in every region that offers the service, and AWS pushed that support live on 14 November 2025. That single change matters more than it sounds: teams that used to patch, back up, and fail…
Plenty of Irish dev teams still rent a small VPS for €10 to €20 a month just to serve a marketing page, a docs site, or a portfolio that never changes more than a few times a week. That compute…
