Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine explained: Migrating your vSphere VMs
Migrating your resources and workloads to a cloud platform can seem daunting at first—particularly in a traditional VMware environment. In a previous blog, we showed how to provision networking and connectivity so you can run VMware Cloud Foundation natively on Google Cloud VMware Engine. In this installment, we discuss some additional strategies for migrating to […]
GCP – Automating data pipelines with BigQuery and Fivetran
Companies from every industry vertical, including finance, retail, logistics, and others, all share a common horizontal analytics challenge: How do they best understand the market for their products? Solving this problem requires companies to conduct a detailed marketing, sales, and finance analysis to understand their place within the larger market. These analyses are designed to […]
Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service: Privilege escalation from compromised node to cluster (CVE-2020-8559)
There is a potential risk to nodes if an attacker is able to intercept certain requests to the Kubelet. See if you’re vulnerable and how to mitigate. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service: Node disk DOS by writing to container /etc/hosts (CVE-2020-8557)
If a pod writes a large amount of data to the etc/hosts file within Azure Kubernetes Service, it can potentially cause the node to fail. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced Now Available in Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milan)
Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Africa (Cape Town) and EU (Milan). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amplify CLI now supports tagging resources at a project level
With this Amplify CLI release, you can now assign tags to Amplify-generated AWS resources (such as AppSync, S3 etc.). Tags are key-value pairs that allow you to categorize your resources in different ways, such as by cost center or owner, which simplifies cost allocation in your organization. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure DNS: Introducing automatic child zone delegation
A new Azure DNS update released to general availability in all clouds makes it easier for our customers to create child zones which are easily attached to parent zones. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
Today, we are reducing the price of AWS IoT Events by at least 86%. AWS IoT Events is a fully managed service that makes it easy to detect and respond to changes indicated by IoT sensors and applications. For example, you can use AWS IoT Events to detect malfunctioning machinery, a stuck conveyor belt, or […]
Azure – Manage your Azure & Amazon Web Services (AWS) spending in a single location with Azure Cost Management +Billing
An Azure Cost Management + Billing connector for AWS is now generally available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Textract from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents and goes beyond […]