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Effective Housekeeping With Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup
2026-01-28 22:35:07| The Webmail Blog
Effective Housekeeping With Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup jord4473 Wed, 01/28/2026 - 15:35 Cloud Insights Effective Housekeeping With Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup January 29, 2026 by Adam Roberts, Cloud Practice Engineer III, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! Recent Posts Effective Housekeeping With Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup January 29th, 2026 Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27th, 2026 How to Keep Azure Cloud Costs Under Control with Continuous Optimization January 26th, 2026 Using Agentic AI to Modernize VMware Environments on AWS January 22nd, 2026 How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 Related Posts Cloud Insights Effective Housekeeping With Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup January 29th, 2026 AI Insights Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27th, 2026 Cloud Insights How to Keep Azure Cloud Costs Under Control with Continuous Optimization January 26th, 2026 AI Insights Using Agentic AI to Modernize VMware Environments on AWS January 22nd, 2026 Cloud Insights How Energy CIOs Can Innovate Without Risking Stability January 20th, 2026 Snapshot sprawl drives hidden AWS costs. Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup automates discovery and removal, restoring visibility and freeing teams to focus on higher-value work. Snapshot sprawl is a common problem in mature Amazon Web Service (AWS) environments. Over time, accounts multiply, regions expand and Amazon EBS snapshots quietly accumulate. What once felt insignificant starts to show up as a steady and frustrating increase in monthly spend, often without clear visibility into where that cost originates. Teams often struggle to answer basic questions such as: Which account owns the snapshot? Which region is it stored in? When was it created? Is it managed by Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager or AWS Backup? Is it tied to an Amazon Machine Image and is that AMI still in use? Tracking this information across multiple accounts and regions quickly becomes time consuming. Even when it is possible, manual cleanup raises a bigger question: Is this the best use of your teams time when automation can handle it faster and more safely? A systematic approach to snapshot cleanup Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup addresses this challenge at the account and region level, with organizational-level functionality on the roadmap. Instead of manually hunting through consoles and spreadsheets, automation delivers a complete inventory of snapshot resources in a clear, review-ready format. The result is faster insight, safe cleanup and fewer surprises on the monthly bill. Why Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup Rackspace designed this service to remove friction without introducing risk. Simple to deploy A single CloudFormation template and basic account and region details are all you need. The service collects relevant data and enables snapshot removal through a straightforward approval process. Secure by design Cleanup runs using a least-privileged IAM role deployed in the target account. The role can only be assumed from the Rackspace automation account and can be removed immediately after cleanup is complete. Fast results Data processing is efficient, with insights available in minutes rather than days. Context aware If a snapshot is associated with an AMI, the service deregisters the AMI before processing snapshot removal to avoid unintended impact. Architecture overview Before cleanup begins, a minimal IAM role is deployed with read-only permissions by default. A small CloudFormation parameter update enables resource removal once snapshots are approved for cleanup. This approach balances visibility, control and security. How the workflow operates Cleanup follows a simple, automated workflow designed to keep teams in control while eliminating manual effort. Automation runs a full snapshot data pull. The customer reviews the inventory and marks snapshots for cleanup. A dry-run results file is generated for final validation. After approval, selected resources are removed based on the dry-run output. Both discovery and cleanup are automated, delivering significant time savings compared to snapshot-by-snapshot review. Business impact The following impacts reflect what organizations unlock when snapshot cleanup is treated as an operational control, not a manual task. Lower operational costs Unused snapshots represent wasted spend that can easily reach tens of thousands of dollars per month in large AWS portfolios. Effective housekeeping redirects budget to higher-value initiatives. Improved team efficiency Manual cleanup consumes engineering time with little strategic return. Automation frees teams to focus on architecture, optimization and innovation. Stronger cloud hygiene Removing unused resources supports AWS best practices and contributes to a cleaner, more secure environment. Take control of snapshot sprawl Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup can help you reduce cost, save time and improve visibility across AWS environments, without adding operational risk. It delivers practical automation where your teams need it most. Get started today. Rackspace Managed Snapshot Cleanup is available in AWS Marketplace. Tags: Cloud Insights
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Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER
2026-01-20 17:03:34| The Webmail Blog
Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER jord4473 Tue, 01/20/2026 - 10:03 AI Insights Redefining Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting with RAIDER January 27, 2026 By Craig Fretwell, Global Head of Security Operations, Rackspace Technology Link Copied! 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Modern security teams face an undeniable truth: Data is everywhere, time is scarce and threats never pause. Analysts sort through a constant stream of alerts, logs and intelligence, yet the volume and manual effort required to interpret that information make it difficult to stay ahead of attackers. This is the gap Rackspace Advanced Intelligence, Detection and Event Research (RAIDER) was built to close. The problem we set out to solve Security analysts often operate in a reactive cycle. They spend hours reviewing threat reports, writing detection queries and mapping behaviors to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. Detection engineering work takes longer than it should, and approaches often differ from one analyst to another. Those gaps give attackers room to move before defenses can respond. The operational effects are immediate. Detection and response slow down, false positives increase and teams struggle to scale without adding headcount. The Rackspace Cyber Defense Center needed a way to convert threat awareness into actionable defense and make detection engineering faster, smarter and repeatable. Enter RAIDER RAIDER goes beyond traditional tooling by elevating how security operations work. It accelerates analysis, sharpens detection quality and gives teams the advantage they need to stay ahead of threats. Built as a fully custom back-end platform, RAIDER unifies threat intelligence, streamlines detection engineering workflows and enables proactive threat research. By centralizing how detection logic is created and enriched, it strengthens defense readiness and elevates the speed and consistency of security operations. What makes RAIDER a game changer 1. Unified detection engineering and threat research RAIDER removes the friction of fragmented workflows by bringing intelligence, detection logic and enrichment into one platform. Analysts move with clarity and efficiency. 2. AI-driven detection engineering Powered by the Rackspace AI Security Engine (RAISE), our advanced AI and large language models, RAIDER automates high-quality detection rule creation. Analysts provide intent and context, and RAIDER generates platform-ready detections aligned to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK in minutes. The result is scalable, standardized and repeatable detection engineering. 3. Intelligence-led detection logic RAIDER strengthens detection quality with intelligence that reflects real attacker behavior. Techniques and tactics map directly to MITRE ATT&CK, helping analysts build detections that anticipate and counter relevant threats. 4. Contextual enrichment Each detection includes supporting detail on attacker techniques, tools and behaviors. This context helps analysts understand the reasoning behind a rule and how it protects against emerging patterns. 5. Built for the ecosystem RAIDER integrates seamlessly with cloud-native platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, allowing detections to move from research to production without friction. The business impact RAIDER delivers tangible gains for security teams: Speed: Cuts detection development time by more than half, reducing MTTD and MTTR Accuracy: Intelligence-led detections reduce false positives and wasted effort Scalability: Expands team capacity without increasing headcount Proactive defense: Shifts your organization toward intelligence-driven security These gains strengthen resilience and sharpen operational precision. Whats next for RAIDER RAIDER continues to expand with new capabilities, including: Specialized MITRE TTP detection packs for high-priority techniques APT-focused detection repositories tied to known adversary behaviors Why RAIDER matters RAIDER gives security teams an immediate advantage by turning detection engineering into an intelligence-led discipline that keeps pace with how attackers evolve. It helps organizations move from reactive activity to proactive defense, replacing manual effort with smarter, faster and more consistent detection. Thats RAIDER. Learn more about RAIDER and our other cybersecurity capabilities. Tags: Security AI Insights
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