Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – Preventing lateral movement in Google Compute Engine
When organizations move to Google Cloud, a question we often hear from security operations teams is, “How can we prevent compromises in our deployments and better defend against lateral movement?” With lateral movement, an attacker can move within a system after an initial compromise and gain access to even more sensitive data. To prevent lateral movement […]

Azure – Remote Desktop client for Android now supports Windows Virtual Desktop connections
Access Windows Virtual Desktop from the new Remote Desktop client for Android. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Sphere update 20.07 is now available
The 20.07 feature release contains new features for application development and tenant certificate renewal, additional promotions of beta features to long-term stable (LTS), and enhancements to improve stability and troubleshooting of device connections on Windows platforms. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service VNET ingress support is now available
Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service (DPS) has released general availability support for Virtual Networks (VNET). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to Datadog
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to a Datadog. This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to Datadog without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression to […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data to New Relic, the industry’s leading observability platform for all telemetry data. This Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to New Relic without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to MongoDB Cloud
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to MongoDB Cloud. This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to MongoDB Cloud without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, aggregation, and compression […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to HTTP endpoints
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to a generic HTTP endpoint. This feature enables you to use a fully managed service to stream data to an HTTP endpoint without building custom applications or worrying about operating and managing the data delivery infrastructure. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose incorporates error handling, auto-scaling, transformation, conversion, […]

AWS – AWS AppSync Now Available in the EU (Milan) Region
AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources, is now available in the EU (Milan) region. With AppSync, you can build scalable applications, including those requiring real-time updates, on a range of […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions
EC2 Image Builder, a service that makes it easier and faster to build and maintain secure Virtual Machine images, is now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.