Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Google Cloud Networking overview
How is the Google Cloud physical network organized? Google Cloud is divided into regions, which are further subdivided into zones. A region is a geographic area where the round trip time (RTT) from one VM to another is typically under 1 ms. A zone is a deployment area within a region that has its own fully […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator adds support for two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Starting today, you can use two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor your AWS Global Accelerator environment. You can now monitor the total number of healthy endpoints and the total number of unhealthy endpoints served by your accelerator, including EC2 instances, Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers and Elastic IP addresses. With the two new […]
AWS – Amazon Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region
Amazon Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to ten. You can now claim South Korean toll-free and local telephone numbers. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Logz.io on Microsoft Azure
You can now run Logz.io as a service on Azure through the Azure Marketplace. This offer provides you with seamless experience to provision Logz.io accounts and configure Azure resources to send logs to Logz.io from Azure portal. Leverage best-in-class provisioning, onboarding, and management experience in Azure with unified billing for the Logz.io on Azure service […]
Azure – General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes
You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM sizes that have sufficient temp disks. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Functions extensions for Blobs, Queues, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Event Grid
The new triggers and bindings contain a number of improvements, including support for identity-based connections. Read More for the details.
GCP – Open data lakehouse on Google Cloud
For more than a decade the technology industry has been searching for optimal ways to store and analyze vast amounts of data that can handle the variety, volume, latency, resilience, and varying data access requirements demanded by organizations. Historically, organizations have implemented siloed and separate architectures, data warehouses used to store structured aggregate data primarily […]
GCP – Run your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMs
Modern applications such as microservices, containerized workloads and horizontal scalable applications are engineered to persist even when the underlying machine does not. This architecture allows customers to leverage Spot VMs to access Google’s idle capacity and run your application at the lowest price possible. Customers will save 60 – 91% off the price of our […]
AWS – Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
Amazon Textract now supports Tag Image File Format (TIFF) documents in addition to the PNG, JPEG, and PDF formats. Customers can now process TIFF documents either synchronously or asynchronously using any of the following Amazon Textract APIs – DetectDocumentText, StartDocumentAnalysis, StartDocumentTextDetection, AnalyzeDocument, and AnalyzeExpense. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 Spot placement score
Today, we are introducing Amazon EC2 Spot placement score to help you find the optimal location for your Spot workloads. Spot Instances availability varies depending on the instance type, time of day, Region, and Availability Zone. Until now there was no way to find an optimal Region or Availability Zone to fulfill your Spot capacity […]