Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Announcing new features for Cloud Monitoring’s Grafana plugin
The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, allowing for increasingly effective visualizations, analysis, and troubleshooting. Google Cloud works with third-party partners, such as Grafana Labs, to make it easy for customers to create their desired observability stack leveraging a combination of different tools. More than two years ago, we […]

GCP – Investing in the heart Of Google Cloud, our developer and customer communities
Announcing new investments in Google Cloud developer and customer communities Helping developers be their best is core to Google Cloud’s mission. Our developer and IT admin communities serve inspiring roles in the complex cloud ecosystem by helping their users adopt new technologies and solve challenging business problems. Our job is to support these technical communities […]

Azure – General availability: Introducing Log Analytics Open In Excel – A new Excel integration capability
Azure Monitor Log Analytics introduces a new Excel integration capability that allows you to create a connected Excel workbook right from the Log Analytics blade in Azure. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta cheat sheet
If you want data as an ally to steer your business, you should look at Dataprep by Trifacta. Data is needed in every aspect of your business from optimizing profit margin, identifying new market opportunities, predicting next-best offer, responding to fraud, or reporting on regulatory obligations. Whether you are in a leadership position leveraging data […]

GCP – Struggling to fix Kubernetes over-provisioning? GKE has you covered!
Cost optimization is one of the leading initiatives, challenges, and sources of effort for teams adopting public cloud1—especially for those just starting their journey. When it comes to Kubernetes, cost optimization is especially challenging because you don’t want any efforts you undertake to negatively affect your applications’ performance, stability, or ability to service your business. […]

GCP – To the cloud and beyond! A program management approach to data center migration
Editor’s note: In this blog post, we provide a view into our program management approach for enabling a successful data center migration. This is the second in a series of blogs. Read the first: To the cloud and beyond! Planning a multi-year data center migration. Data center migration to the cloud can be a complicated […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles launches in Canada(Central) region
Amazon Connect now allows you to enable Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in Canada (Central) region, equipping contact center agents with the most up to date information about the incoming contact to provide faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles automatically brings together customer information from multiple applications such as Salesforce, Amazon S3 and ServiceNow […]

GCP – Introducing Leaptakers, a celebration of IT’s great leaps
IT teams are the masters of modern marvels, behind some of humanity’s greatest feats. From the first circuits, to quantum computing, to the cloud, tech experts have taken great leaps to engineer the seemingly impossible. In the past year alone, IT has moved mountains to keep the world working. Digital transformations that may have previously […]

GCP – Vida Health invigorates virtual healthcare with Google Cloud solutions
Editor’s note: In this guest blog, we look at how healthcare startup Vida Health built a virtual platform on Google Cloud that cut costs and overhead, saves healthcare providers valuable time, and delivers machine learning capabilities that operationalize their data for better patient health outcomes. At Vida Health, our virtual healthcare platform is designed to […]
GCP – HTTP/3 gets your content there QUIC, with Cloud CDN and Load Balancing
When it comes to the performance of internet-facing applications, HTTP/3 is no small step over HTTP/2: Google’s own roll-out of HTTP/3 reduced Search latency by 2%, reduced video rebuffer times on YouTube by 9%, and improved throughput on mobile devices by 7%. So today, we’re excited to bring support for HTTP/3 to all Google Cloud […]