Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – This year, resolve to become a certified Professional Cloud Developer – here’s how
Do you have a New Year’s resolution to improve your career prospects? There’s still time to register for a free Google Cloud Skills Boost to help you on your way to becoming a certified Professional Cloud Developer. According to third-party IT training firm Global Knowledge, two Google Cloud Certified Professional certifications topped its list of […]
GCP – Optimize the cost of your Google Cloud VMware Engine deployments
Google Cloud VMware Engine allows you to deploy a managed VMware environment with dedicated hardware in minutes with the flexibility to add and remove ESXi nodes on-demand. This flexibility is particularly convenient to quickly add compute capacity as needed. However, it is important to implement cost optimization strategies and review processes such that increased costs […]
GCP – Startup founder uses virtual reality therapy to support the speech disorder community
Editor’s note: Meet Gareth Walkom, an entrepreneur dedicated to helping others with speech disorders. Turning life experience into innovation Did you know that 3% of Americans have a speech disorder, while 1% of the world’s population have a stutter? Just getting what they need in everyday interactions can be stressful, which intensifies when the stakes […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G4dn instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Amazon EC2 G4dn instances which provide a cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts Now Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL major version 14. PostgreSQL 14 includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities such as long-running queries may be cancelled if the client disconnects, […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Read More for the details.
AWS – Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink
You can now access 5 new metrics for PrivateLink-based VPC Endpoints and Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle
Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports collection and tracking of query execution plans for Amazon RDS for Oracle, so you can more easily identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of a worse performing or a stuck query. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions
AWS Resilience Hub, which provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications on AWS, has just launched in 13 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.2 and Web Server Plugins
You can now create Apache Airflow 2.2 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.2 is the latest version of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Further, MWAA will install Python requirements, provider packages, and plugins on the Airflow web server starting with 2.2 environments. Read […]