Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – GKE under the hood: What’s new with Cluster Autoscaler
In the world of cloud infrastructure, sometimes the most impactful features are the ones you never have to think about. When it comes to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we have a long history of quietly innovating behind the scenes, optimizing the invisible gears that keep your clusters running smoothly. These enhancements might not always grab […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
We are thrilled to share that Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence. We believe this is a testament to our strategy of delivering innovative business intelligence offerings across ad-hoc, governed, and embedded analytics, as well as our vision for integrating AI to enable our customers […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now provides granular access control for foundation models
Starting today, enterprise admins using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart can easily configure granular access control for foundation models (FM) that are discoverable and accessible to users within their organization. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart […]
AWS – Default Role in CodeCatalyst Environments
Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for adding a default IAM role to an environment. Previously – when a workflow was configured – a user was required to specify the environment, AWS account connection, and IAM role for each individual action in order for that action to interact with AWS resources. With the default IAM role, […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 for outbound connections in VPC in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. With this launch, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is now available in AWS Canada (Calgary) region
You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the AWS Canada (Calgary) region. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview)
Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 now enables customers to export their cost and usage data with the FOCUS 1.0 schema to Amazon S3. This feature is in preview. FOCUS is a new open-source cloud billing data specification that provides standardization to simplify cloud financial management across multiple sources. Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 includes several […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs are now available on AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Starting today, customers can reference the latest macOS AMIs via public parameters on the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. With this functionality, customers can query the public parameters to retrieve the latest macOS imageIDs, ensure that new EC2 Mac instances are launched with the latest macOS versions, and display a complete list of all available […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub
Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub now enables customers to export their cost optimization recommendations to Amazon S3. Cost Optimization Hub recommendations are consolidated from over 15 types of AWS cost optimization recommendations, such as EC2 instance rightsizing, Graviton migration, and Savings Plan purchases across their AWS accounts and AWS Regions. Exports are delivered on […]
GCP – Network Performance Decoded: Benchmarking TCP and UDP bulk flows
Here on the Google Cloud networking team, we’ve been deep in the trenches with our customers, helping them build, fix, and supercharge their networks for years. In that time, we’ve uncovered some valuable patterns and best practices for maximizing network performance and efficiency. This wealth of knowledge is more than just a theoretical resource — […]