Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – AWS HealthOmics now supports Elastic Throughput for dynamic run storage
Today, we are excited to announce throughput improvements to dynamic run storage for AWS HealthOmics. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. Dynamic run storage automatically scales storage capacity based on workflow needs. With this release, dynamic run […]

AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Sonatel, an affiliate of Orange, in Dakar, Senegal. With this first Wavelength Zone in Sub-Saharan Africa, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use AWS infrastructure and services to support applications with data residency, low latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains
Amazon CloudFront announces Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains, enabling customers to easily use their root domain (e.g., example.com) with CloudFront. This new feature simplifies DNS management by providing just 3 static IP addresses instead of the previous 21, making it easier to configure and manage apex domains with CloudFront distributions. Previously, customers had […]

AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand)
We are excited to announce that Amazon Athena is now available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand). Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze petabytes of data using SQL, without requiring infrastructure setup or management. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto query engines, providing powerful and […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers in AWS Mexico (Central) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family for file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) environments through a pre-configured security policy that allow monitoring in systems where security enforcement is required. This feature benefits customers in regulated industries and government sectors who maintain strict security controls across their Linux infrastructure. These security policies, when applied before CloudWatch Agent installation, help customers maintain […]

GCP – Spring cleaning with FinOps Hub 2.0
Spring is a great reminder to spring clean – an annual tradition that should extend not only to your household, but also to your virtual cloud infrastructure. Why not start with Google Cloud’s FinOps Hub? As Google Cloud customers have adopted the FinOps hub to guide their optimization initiatives, we started getting additional feedback from […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, […]

AWS – AWS Batch now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service Exec and AWS FireLens log router
AWS Batch now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Exec and AWS FireLens log router for AWS Batch on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate. With ECS Exec you can track the progress of your application and troubleshoot issue by by running interactive commands against the containers in your AWS Batch job. AWS FireLens allows you […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Connector for Apache Kafka Connect now generally available
The Amazon EventBridge connector for Apache Kafka Connect is now generally available. This open-source connector streamlines event integration of Kafka environments with dozens of AWS services and partner integrations without writing custom integration code or running multiple connectors for each target. The connector includes built-in support for Kafka schema registries, offloading large event payloads to […]