Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Adopting real-world sustainability solutions with Google Cloud’s ecosystem
When Google Cloud announced its sustainability partnership initiative last October, the goal was to develop real-world solutions that could make an immediate impact – not in the next decade, but right now. The initiative brought technology partners together to help global businesses and governments accelerate sustainability programs, inform decisions on future growth, and better understand […]

GCP – How to manage data on Cloud VMs: 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 Security Hub launches five controls and one new integration partner
AWS Security Hub has released 5 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practices standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you […]

AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
You can now enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation for Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources, in addition to CloudFront distributions, protected by AWS Shield Advanced. When you protect your resources with AWS Shield Advanced and enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, patterns associated with layer 7 DDoS events will be identified and isolated by automatically […]

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager achieves FedRAMP Compliance
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive […]

GCP – Announcing Serverless Spark components for Vertex AI Pipelines
Developers and ML engineers face a variety of challenges when it comes to operationalizing Spark ML workloads. One set of challenges may come in the form of infrastructure concerns, for example, how to provision infrastructure clusters in advance, how to ensure that there are enough resources to run different kinds of tasks like data preparation, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches updated UI for users, routing profiles, and queues with AWS CloudTrail support
Amazon Connect now has an updated UI for users, routing profiles and queues that records all changes made as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify who took which action, what resources were acted upon, when the event occurred, and other details to help you analyze and respond. […]

GCP – MLOps in BigQuery ML with Vertex AI Model Registry
Without a central place to manage models, those responsible for operationalizing ML models have no way of knowing the overall status of trained models and data. This lack of manageability can impact the review and release process of models into production, which often requires offline reviews with many stakeholders. Earlier this week we announced Vertex […]
GCP – Analyze Looker-modeled data through Google Sheets
At Google Cloud, we believe that democratizing access to fresh, consistent, enterprise data is the key to driving digital and cultural transformation. This means empowering everyone to leverage rich, governed data sets and harness the power of data — without learning new tools or building specialized skills. This is why we are excited to provide […]