Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Introducing your new home for work in G Suite
Virtual meetings, remote collaboration, flexible hours: it’s becoming clear that these new ways of working are here to stay. In my conversations with customers and business leaders since the onset of COVID-19, I’ve seen workplace transformation go from an almost theoretical long-term goal to an urgent priority. Employers and workers want more flexible ways of […]
Azure – State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available
State transition restriction rules for Azure Boards are now generally available. This update allows you to restrict work items from being moved from one state to another. Read More for the details.
AWS – Fluent Bit supports Amazon Elasticsearch as a destination to route container logs
Customers using container services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), or self-managed Kubernetes can now send their container logs to Amazon Elasticsearch using the Fluent Bit log router. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions including CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, and […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto 8u262 & Corretto 11.0.8 are now available
Today Amazon Corretto is releasing its July quarterly critical updates. This release also includes Corretto 8 & 11 support for Alpine Linux, Corretto 8 with JFR (JDK Flight Recorder) which can be used with JMC (JDK Mission Control) built for (to support) Corretto, Corretto 11 32bit x86 for Linux and ARM64 optimizations for both Corretto […]
AWS – Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline. With CDK Pipelines, development teams can define and share “pipelines-as-code” patterns for deploying their applications. Teams can easily add stages to their pipeline to deploy […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
AWS Service Catalog is now available in two new AWS Regions. With this release, AWS Service Catalog is now available in 21 regions including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm and Milan), South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain) […]
GCP – Updates to our Partner Advantage program help partners differentiate and grow their businesses
Our partners play an important role in all that we do, and we are always looking for ways to showcase and help them differentiate themselves in the market. Last year, we launched the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program to help them do exactly that. Since then, we’ve added new certifications,expanded our Expertise areas to cover […]
GCP – GKE best practices: Designing and building highly available clusters
Like many organizations, you employ a variety of risk management and risk mitigation strategies to keep your systems running, including your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment. These strategies ensure business continuity during both predictable and unpredictable outages, and they are especially important now, when you are working to limit the impact of the pandemic on […]
AWS – New AWS Public Datasets Available from National Center for Biotechnology Information, the Johns Hopkins and University of Texas at Southwestern, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others
Twenty-three new or updated AWS Public Datasets from National Center for Bioinformatics, the Johns Hopkins and University of Texas at Southwestern, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Cancer Institute, National Herbarium of New South Wales, and others are now available in the following categories: Read More for the details.
Azure – Revocation of non-compliant Certificate Authorities potentially impacting customer’s Azure service(s).
Recent reports detailed Certificate Authorities that were not compliant with industry standards for trusted CAs. As per industry requirements, non-compliant CAs are being revoked requiring customers certificates to be re-issued. Read More for the details.