Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – What’s new in cloud-native apps?
Developers and IT operations pros of all stripes come to Google Cloud to build modern, cloud-first and cloud-native applications. Here’s the latest from Google Cloud on everything app dev, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, serverless and open source, all in one place. Week of Mar 14 – Mar 18 2022 Create EventArc triggers with TerraformIn addition to […]
AWS – Service Catalog now supports VPC Endpoint Policies
AWS Service Catalog now supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies in all regions. Previously, Service Catalog supported integration with AWS PrivateLink in all regions, where customers could use default policies that provided full access to Service Catalog. With this newly supported feature, customers can create or modify their VPC endpoint(s), interface or gateway, and […]
GCP – How to build reliable systems (with unreliable components): A conversation
We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and database. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh Envoy Management Service (EMS) now supports AWS CloudTrail integration
AWS App Mesh now supports AWS CloudTrail integration with Envoy Management Service (EMS). With CloudTrail integration for EMS, customers now get a history of all API calls that Envoy proxies make to App Mesh to retrieve dynamic configuration. This can help customers enhance governance, compliance, and risk auditing capabilities for the workloads running in AWS […]
GCP – Ready to solve for the future? Data Cloud Summit ’22 is coming April 6
At Google Cloud, we’ve helped tens of thousands of companies build data clouds that leverage the full power of data, from databases and analytics that support decision making, to AI and ML that predict and automate the future. Organizations across all industries have gravitated to Google’s tools for building data clouds because of our proven […]
GCP – Bootstrap your startup with the Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups : A Look into the Start Series
Bootstrap your Startup with our technical guided series At Google Cloud, we want to provide you with the access to all the tools you need to grow your business. Through the Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups, leverage industry leading solutions with how-to video guides and resource handbookscurated for startups. This multi-series contains 3 chapters: […]
GCP – Powering Security Operations with context-aware detections, alert prioritization and risk scoring in Google Chronicle
With today’s rapidly escalating threat landscape, it is important that our customers have access to relevant context across their entire IT stack, whether it’s in the cloud, on-premise, or a combination of both, while responding to malicious threats. An alert in isolation does not provide sufficient information – associated metadata, context, and asset information is […]
GCP – Creating Eventarc triggers with Terraform
Terraform is increasingly the preferred tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure in Google Cloud and across clouds. In an earlier post, I showed how to create Eventarc triggers using Google Cloud Console or via the command line with gcloud. In this post, I show how to create the same triggers with the google_eventarc_trigger Terraform […]
Azure – Update your Azure SDK libraries by 31 March 2023
Support for Azure SDK libraries that do not conform to our current Azure SDK guidelines will be retired as of 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.