Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute peering locations available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: New Azure Batch capabilities
Several new pool and security features are now generally available. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications
Now on EC2 Image Builder, customers can use events to trigger an image build schedule in their event-driven architectures. Integrate your image build schedule with your events from AWS services, our SaaS partners, and custom events, via Amazon EventBridge. You can also create rules for event patterns, such as listening for a specific variable, and […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13 in GovCloud Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 13 in GovCloud regions. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine, PowerCLI and BigQuery Analytics
Google Cloud Billing allows Billing Account Administrators to configure the export of Google Cloud billing data to a BigQuery dataset for analysis and intercompany billback scenarios. Developers may choose to extract Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) configuration and utilization data and apply internal cost and pricing data to create custom reports to support GCVE resource […]
GCP – New Cloud Functions min instances reduces serverless cold starts
Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, is a lightweight compute platform for creating single-purpose, standalone functions that respond to events, without needing an administrator to manage a server or runtime environment. Over the past year we have shipped many new important capabilities on Cloud Functions: new runtimes (Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP), […]
GCP – How Caribou Coffee uses reCAPTCHA Enterprise to create safe and frictionless digital experiences
Like most businesses, we are constantly evolving and innovating to keep pace with the digital world. Last year, many experiences we had with our customers shifted to being online. And while our virtual customer interactions increased, so did attempted attacks. We needed to secure our customers’ experiences while simultaneously not disrupting them. Today, we’re going […]
GCP – Protecting Healthcare data with DLP: A guide for getting started
Protecting patient data is of paramount importance to any healthcare provider. This is not only because of the many laws and regulations in different countries around the world requiring this data to be safeguarded, but it is a foundational requirement for trust between a provider and their patient. This does create some tension between patients […]
GCP – Anomaly detection with TensorFlow Probability and Vertex AI
Time series anomaly detection is currently a trending topic—statisticians are scrambling to recalibrate their models for retail demand forecasting and more given the recent drastic changes in consumer behavior. As an intern, I was given the task of creating a machine-learning based solution for anomaly detection on Vertex AI to automate these laborious processes of […]
GCP – Replicating from Cloud Spanner to BigQuery at scale
Cloud Spanner is GCP’s native and distributed Online Transaction Processing System (OLTP). Due to its distributed nature, it can scale horizontally and therefore is suitable for workloads with very high throughputs containing large volumes of data. This invites a huge opportunity to do analytics on top of it. Thanks to Cloud Spanner BigQuery Federation, you […]