Welcome to above the clouds

Azure – User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available
Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.

GCP – Predictable serverless deployments with Terraform
As a software developer, you want your code to reliably work. If your code is deployed in any sort of complex architecture, your code may be correct, but a misconfigured deployment could mean the entire system doesn’t work. The ability to reliably deploy complex infrastructure is essential. Having detailed documentation is useful, but just one […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BI
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integrating with Microsoft Power BI, a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decisions. Powered by the Open Distro for Elasticsearch ODBC Driver you can now integrate your Microsoft Power BI environment with you Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains using the Open Distro for Elasticsearch SQL Engine. Read […]

AWS – AWS Data Exchange launches post-subscription wizard to configure revision exports to Amazon S3
AWS Data Exchange now gives customers an easy way to set up export jobs upon subscribing to products. Instead of navigating to separate screens, subscribers can use the AWS Data Exchange console to configure export jobs that will begin automatically after their subscription is completed. This functionality reduces friction and time to value for customers. For […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports pg_bigm extension for faster full text search
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for the pg_bigm extension for faster full text search of languages that require multi-byte character sets such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets
Amazon EventBridge now supports cross-Region event bus as a target, allowing customers to aggregate events in a central Region. Customers can now have all their event information in one place. This makes it easier for developers to find those events and write code that reacts to them, manage permissions for access to sensitive events, and […]

AWS – New free ML training for business and technical leaders
We are excited to announce the launch of Machine Learning Essentials for Business and Technical Decision Makers, a series of three free digital courses. These on-demand courses are designed to help business and technical decision makers without Machine Learning (ML) experience understand ML basics and develop the skills to plan an ML strategy for their […]

GCP – Understanding the value of managed database services
Organizations are increasingly short on time, talent, and resources to manage and tune databases to suit their needs. For this reason, many businesses are turning to fully managed database services to help them build and scale their infrastructure to keep up with the data-driven demands of today’s always-on world. Cloud SQL offers industry-standard relational databases […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and EU (London)
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and EU (London) regions. Read More for the details.