Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – Students, start your engines! AWS DeepRacer Student Virtual League is now underway
Starting today, students over the age of 16 and currently enrolled in high school or undergraduate programs globally can compete in the DeepRacer Student Virtual League for the chance to win prizes, glory and a trip to AWS re:Invent 2022, a learning conference for the global cloud computing community featuring keynote announcements. The AWS DeepRacer […]

AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor introduces Priority for AWS Enterprise Support customers (Preview)
AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is now available in preview for AWS Enterprise Support customers, and provides a prioritized view of cloud optimization recommendations and the ability to track the status of these recommendations. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise announces new development library to create your own web applications to visualize industrial data
Today we are announcing the launch of IoT Application Kit for AWS IoT SiteWise, an open source front end library, that enables developers to quickly build applications to visualize industrial data from processes, devices, and equipment that are connected to AWS IoT SiteWise. The IoT Application Kit provides user interface (UI) components for managing and […]

AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 26 regions, with the addition of the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS launches customer carbon footprint tool
Starting today customers can calculate the environmental impact of their AWS workloads with the new customer carbon footprint tool. This new tool uses easy-to-understand data visualizations to provide customers with their historical carbon emissions, evaluate emission trends as their use of AWS evolves, approximate the estimated carbon emissions they have avoided by using AWS instead […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Serverless is now available in Europe (Ireland)
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Europe (Ireland) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02
The 22.02 release includes new and changed features in the OS and the SDK. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for AWS Backup
AWS Backup now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to AWS Backup via a private endpoint within your virtual private network in a scalable manner. With PrivateLink, you can now simplify your network architecture by connecting to AWS Backup using private IP addresses in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), eliminating the need to use public […]

AWS – Amazon FinSpace releases new User APIs
Amazon FinSpace customers can now manage their Amazon FinSpace application users with the AWS SDK and CLI. Using these APIs, customers can integrate Amazon FinSpace into their identity management provisioning process to help Amazon FinSpace meet their organization’s access management rules. For example, when a user joins a quantitative research team that uses FinSpace, they […]
AWS – AWS expands NAT64 and DNS64 capabilities in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Starting today, NAT64 and DNS64 capabilities are available in all AWS Commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.