Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Understand production performance with Cloud Profiler history view
Cloud Profiler is a favorite of Google Cloud customers thanks to the insight that it provides into the performance of your production code. You can use this knowledge to reduce and shorten outages, improve performance, and optimize compute spend—always a popular topic! Profiler has always provided the ability to view and compare CPU and memory […]
GCP – Turn any Dataflow pipeline into a reusable template
As data analysis grows within an organization, business teams need the ability to run batch and streaming jobs and leverage the code written by engineers. But re-running existing code often requires setting up a development environment and making slight code changes, which is challenging for people without a programming background. With this challenge in mind, […]
GCP – A deeper dive into Confidential GKE Nodes—now available in preview
The benefits of containers and Kubernetes over traditional on-premises architectures are well-documented and understood. But when considering moving to the cloud, organizations want controls to limit risk and potential exposure of their data. In July, we announced the availability of the Confidential Computing product family, whose breakthrough technology encrypts data in-use—while it is being processed—without […]
GCP – Why build apps on a cloud-native database like MongoDB Atlas?
IT departments today are being challenged to adopt new and far more strategic roles within the organizations they serve. As more businesses turn to technology as a competitive differentiator, IT is being challenged to step away from its traditional focus on running infrastructure and to step up as a strategic business function—delivering software and services […]
AWS – Increased availability for AWS Certification exam online proctoring
You can now take all AWS Certification exams from home or any private space with online proctoring when you schedule with either test delivery provider, Pearson VUE or PSI. Online proctoring is available anywhere AWS Certification offers testing. For candidates in mainland China and South Korea, online proctored exams are available only via PSI. Read […]
GCP – Announcing Google Cloud Public Sector Summit, a free global digital event: Dec. 8-9
2020 has been a year of rapid change, unexpected challenges and new frontiers. In the face of this, government agencies, local leaders, and educational institutions worldwide have been challenged to reinvent their engagement with citizens, the way they accomplish their missions, and how they educate students. Despite its challenges, the pandemic has proven to be […]
AWS – Reserved outbound bandwidth now available for AWS Elemental MediaConnect
Starting today, if you have live, 24×7 video distribution workflows, you can take advantage of discounted outbound data transfer pricing using AWS Elemental MediaConnect. With discounted outbound bandwidth, you can reduce outbound data transfer costs by as much as 70% based on current pricing. With a 12-month commitment to MediaConnect, you reserve outbound bandwidth in […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream is now Generally Available
Amazon Timestream is a new time series database for IoT, edge, and operational applications that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost. Amazon Timestream saves customers effort and expense by keeping recent data in memory […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts is now generally available, expanding object storage to on-premises environments
Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs. Using the S3 APIs and features, S3 on Outposts makes it easy to store, secure, tag, retrieve, report on, and control access to the data on your Outpost. AWS Outposts is a fully […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline now Supports GitHub Enterprise Server
You can now use your GitHub Enterprise Server source repository to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. Read More for the details.