Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Trigger Cloud Run with events from more than 60 Google Cloud sources
Cloud Run (fully-managed) lets you create microservice-based applications that are scalable and extensible. But setting up event-based communication between decoupled microservices can be hard to implement, customize and maintain. Today, we’re announcing Eventarc, new events functionality that allows you to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. Now in Preview, Eventarc helps […]

GCP – Introducing the Cloud Shell Editor—deploy cloud-native apps in minutes
As enterprises move their applications and services to the cloud, developers frequently find themselves evaluating and experimenting with new technologies to identify the best solution to solve their day-to-day problems. This evaluation process could include tasks such as: identifying which platform to host or migrate an application to, or learning how to use an API […]

GCP – Boo! Fight off your scariest cloud monsters with Active Assist
Look, when you’re running your applications in the cloud there’s a lot you have to keep top of mind: performance, security, agility, cost, and more. One thing you shouldn’t have to worry about? Monsters. That’s right, monsters. And yet, many of you do have monsters running amok in your cloud—just not the kind you see […]

GCP – Cybersecurity Awareness Month—New security announcements for Google Cloud
Security is at the heart of any cloud journey. On the one hand, as you adopt cloud services and move workloads to the cloud, you need to make sure you’re conforming to your established security policies. On the other hand, you can take advantage of new capabilities, use new tools, and help improve your security […]

GCP – Admin Essentials: Troubleshooting with Chrome Browser
For IT teams, supporting users, especially remotely, can be difficult. And this is even truer now than ever with so many applications to manage. Because users spend a large portion of their day in the web browser, we wanted to arm IT admins like you with tips that can help prevent issues that could impact […]

GCP – BHI: Embracing Google Workspace and AppSheet to transform the workplace
In the last two decades, BHI, once a small construction company in Vernal, Utah, has expanded its operations to dozens of industries in over 25 states. But while the company grew, its technology trailed behind. File sharing and emails both ran off a single server. Editing a document was a grueling undertaking that required an […]

Azure – Azure Sphere 20.10 Update 1 is now available for compatibility testing
Azure Sphere 20.10 Update 1 fixes some issues reported to us by customers using 20.10 Retail Eval for compatibility testing. The release of 20.10 Update 1 will not reset the retail evaluation period. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing General Availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves
AWS Nitro Enclaves is a new EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments (enclaves) to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most […]

AWS – Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves
ACM for Nitro Enclaves is an enclave application that allows you to use public and private SSL/TLS certificates with your web applications and servers running on Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Nitro Enclaves. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet as well as resources on […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Confluence repositories using Kendra’s new built-in Confluence Server connector. Read More for the details.