Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports VPC prefix lists
AWS Network Firewall now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists to simplify management of your firewall rules and policies across your VPCs. Prefix lists enable you to group one or more CIDR blocks into a single object. You can group IP addresses that you frequently use in a prefix list, and reference this […]

AWS – Amazon Athena adds visual query analysis and tuning tools
Amazon Athena users can now analyze and tune their queries using interactive, visual tools. Optimizing queries and debugging failures are challenging tasks that often require knowledge of query behavior and a careful approach to tuning query logic. With today’s launch, you can now use the Athena console to analyze your queries with tools that make […]

Azure – Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting
Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: NVads A10 v5 Virtual Machines
NVads A10 v5 series virtual machines are now generally available. These are ideal for graphic, video, and AI workloads and include GPU portioning, making them perfect for any size workload. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Fine-grained access controls with job-scoped IAM Roles and Integration with AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark and Apache Hive on Amazon EMR on EC2 Clusters
We are excited to launch two new features that help enforce access controls with Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters (EMR Clusters). These features are supported with jobs that are submitted to the cluster using the EMR Steps API. First is Runtime Role with EMR Steps. A Runtime Role is an AWS Identity and Access Management […]

AWS – AWS Managed Services is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends […]

Azure – Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage
Dynamically increase your disk storage capacity without any application downtime with the Azure Disk Storage live resize feature. Read More for the details.

GCP – A new Google Cloud region is coming to Mexico
Last month, Google announced a five-year, $1.2 billion USD commitment to Latin America to expand digital infrastructure, support digital skills, foster an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and help create inclusive and sustainable communities. To build on these initiatives and meet the growing demand for cloud services around the world, we are excited to announce that a new […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family now supports ED25519 and ECDSA keys for user authentication
AWS Transfer Family customers can now use ED25519 and ECDSA keys to authenticate users connecting to an AWS Transfer Family server. Previously, Transfer Family only supported RSA keys for user authentication. Read More for the details.