Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing and Ningxia Regions
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China Ningxia Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Amazon EKS is a managed container service […]

GCP – Learn how BI Engine enhances BigQuery query performance
BigQuery BI Engine is a fast, in-memory analysis service that lets users analyze data stored in BigQuery with rapid response times and with high concurrency to accelerate certain BigQuery SQL queries. BI Engine caches data instead of query results, allowing different queries over the same data to be accelerated as you look at different aspects […]

GCP – Black Kite runs millions of cyber-risk assessments at scale on Google Cloud
Data breaches and ransomware attacks impact millions of people every year. Although major corporations have the resources to comply with international data privacy laws and standards, many smaller companies in high-risk markets struggle to protect sensitive customer information. These vulnerable businesses are often targeted by cyber criminals who use them as digital stepping-stones to attack […]

GCP – Stronger privacy control for the public sector with client-side encryption
Government agencies regularly work with sensitive data, such as financial data, personally identifiable information, or proprietary information. Handling this data requires agencies to meet confidentiality and compliance requirements. At the same time, agencies don’t want to compromise on the collaboration experience they provide to their employees. Control confidentiality of your data through encryption keys Encryption […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling announces increased Auto Scaling group default limit per account
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports a higher default limit for Auto Scaling groups per account. Customers can now create up to 500 Auto Scaling Groups per account, an increase from 200. The limit increase enables customers to provision, manage, and scale EC2 instances for more applications per account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 G5 instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Canada (Central). G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland)
Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7g instances are available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland). C7g instances are the first instances powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based C6g instances for a broad spectrum of applications such as application servers, microservices, batch processing, electronic design […]

GCP – Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in Document Analytics Platforms
At Google, our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our Document AI solutions suite, as well as the Vertex AI platform atop which Document AI is built, achieving this goal involves building capabilities to extract structured data from unstructured sources. Since launching Document AI in late […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom now enables you to integrate agent assistance capabilities into custom agent applications
Amazon Connect Wisdom now provides a JavaScript library (WisdomJS) to integrate agent assistance capabilities into your homegrown or third-party agent application, enabling you to increase agent productivity and improve customer satisfaction without having to migrate your agents to another application. Amazon Connect Wisdom reduces the time agents spend searching for answers and enables quick resolution of […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. C6gd instances offer up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based […]