Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – AlphaEvolve on Google Cloud: AI for agentic discovery and optimization
Innovators in science and engineering face a common barrier: the search space for solving complex problems — like designing a new chip or discovering a drug molecule — is often too vast for standard brute-force methods to explore effectively. To help you overcome this challenge, we are releasing AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing […]
GCP – From adoption to impact: Putting the DORA AI Capabilities Model to work
The 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development report revealed a critical truth: AI is an amplifier. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones. While AI adoption is now near-universal, with 90% of developers using it in their daily workflows, success is not guaranteed. Our cluster analysis of nearly 5,000 […]
GCP – How Virgin Media O2 uses data contracts to enable trusted data and scalable AI products
As organizations scale their data and AI capabilities, many are adopting federated data architectures to empower domain teams, accelerate innovation, and foster ownership. This decentralization is essential for building AI products that are adaptable and data-driven — but it also introduces new challenges: maintaining trust, ensuring data quality, and enforcing governance across distributed teams and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances are available in Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, and they offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instances. X8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads, such as electronic design […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central now includes opportunity deal sizing
Today, AWS announces deal sizing capability in AWS Partner Central. This new feature, available within the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Opportunities, uses AI to provide deal size estimates and AWS service recommendations. Deal Sizing capability allows Partners to save time on deal management by simplifying the process of estimating AWS monthly recurring revenue (MMR) when […]
GCP – Nutanix NC2 is now officially supported on Google Cloud
Today, we are thrilled to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) is generally available on Google Cloud. NC2 on Google Cloud is designed to migrate and modernize specialized, regulated, and mission-critical applications without refactoring your workloads or compromising on performance. This partnership brings the power of Google Cloud’s infrastructure and advanced AI models to your hybrid […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers enhances AWS Console for game developers with AI powered assistance
Today, Amazon GameLift Servers is launching AI-powered assistance in the AWS Console, leveraging Amazon Q Developer to provide tailored guidance for game developers. This new feature integrates specialized GameLift Servers knowledge to help customers navigate complex workflows, troubleshoot issues, and optimize their game server deployments more efficiently. Developers can now access AI-assisted recommendations for game […]
AWS – Amazon RDS and Aurora now support resource tagging for Automated Backups
Amazon RDS and Aurora now support resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups. You can now tag your automated backups separately from the parent DB instance or DB cluster, enabling Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and simplifying resource management and cost tracking. With this launch, you can tag automated backups in the same way […]
GCP – Streamline the design and deployment of application infrastructure with Application Design Center, now GA
Earlier this year, we unveiled a big investment in platform and developer team productivity, with the launch of Application Design Center, helping them streamline the design and deployment of cloud application infrastructure, while ensuring applications are secure, reliable, and aligned with best practices. And today, Application Design Center is generally available. We built Application Design […]
GCP – Is your DR plan just wishful thinking? Prove your resilience with chaos engineering
When was the last time you knew — not just hoped — that your disaster recovery plan would work perfectly? For most of us, the answer is unclear. Sure, you may have a DR plan, a meticulously crafted document stored in a wiki or a shared drive, that gets dusted off for compliance audits or […]