Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Introducing #AskGoogleCloud: A community driven YouTube live series
We’re excited to introduce a new series on the Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel connecting the cloud community directly with our Google Cloud product experts. We’ll be selecting questions that use #AskGoogleCloud on Twitter and YouTube and answer them in a featured premiere each quarter by experts in that area. Each premiere will be paired […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.4 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13cR4
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.4 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 4 Update 9. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. […]

GCP – Transform data to secure it: Use Cloud DLP
When you want to protect data in-motion, at rest or in use, you usually think about data discovery, data loss detection and prevention. Few would immediately consider transforming or modifying data in order to protect it. But doing so can be a powerful and relatively easy tactic to prevent data loss. Our data security vision […]

GCP – Open innovations, scaling data science, and amazing data analytics stories from industry leaders
February might be the shortest month of the year, but it was certainly one of our busiest for data analytics at Google! From our partnership announcement with Databricks to the launch of Dataproc Hub and BigQuery BI Engine, and the incredible journeys of Twitter, Verizon, and J.B. Hunt—this month was full of great activities for […]

GCP – Build your future with GKE
American poet Maya Angelou said ”If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” We agree. Today, as we kick off the Build with Google Kubernetes Engine event, and fresh off our GKE Autopilot launch, we wanted to take a step back and reflect on just how far GKE has […]

GCP – HSBC deploys Dialogflow, easing call burden on policy experts
Banks are among the most highly regulated businesses on the planet, subject to regulations based on geography as well as their own internal policies and procedures. HSBC, a global giant in commercial and personal banking, has experts all over the world who support thousands of their risk management colleagues each time they need an internal […]

GCP – Mission Critical Services: for the most demanding enterprise environments
The last 12 months have been busy for us at Google Cloud. Our customers told us they wanted to have more support as they continued to scale their businesses on our global infrastructure. So, we overhauled our Voice of the Customer Programs, expanded our Customer Advisory Boards, and launched a brand-new, independently run Google Cloud […]

Azure – Azure Storage — Routing Preferences now generally available
Routing Preference for Azure Storage provide the flexibility to optimize traffic between clients external to Azure and your storage account for premium network reliability and performance over the Microsoft global network or for cost efficiency using the transit ISP network. You can now also publish route-specific endpoints for your storage account. Read More for the […]

Azure – New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now enables you to validate public and cross-account access before deploying permissions changes
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now enables you to validate access before deploying permissions changes. IAM Access Analyzer uses comprehensive policy analysis to provide provable security and generate findings for resource access. Now with IAM Access Analyzer, you can prevent public and cross-account access before you set permissions. You can preview findings and validate […]