Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup for accounts using Azure Synapse Link
Now Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB customers can migrate to continuous backup. Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability: Long-term backup retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Long term backup retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL– Flexible Server is now available. Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports Mongo Ver 7.0
vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB has expanded its capabilities and now supports Mongo Version 7.0. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Multi-select delete in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer
Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-June 2024
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-June 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Online migration in migration service Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Experience seamless online migration for PostgreSQL with migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Read More for the details.

GCP – Boost developer productivity with new pipeline validation capabilities in Dataflow
Among data engineers, Dataflow is widely used to develop batch and streaming jobs that support a wide variety of analytics and machine learning use cases, for example patient monitoring, fraud prevention, and real-time inventory management. Data engineers love Dataflow’s ease of use, observability features, and massive scale. They also need to continue reducing the time […]

GCP – Announcing BigQuery Encrypt and Decrypt function compatibility with Sensitive Data Protection
Organizations collect vast amounts of data to create innovative solutions, perform ground breaking research, or optimize their designs. With this comes the responsibility to ensure data is adequately protected to meet regulatory, compliance, contractual or internal security requirements. For organizations that want to move their data warehouses from on-premises to cloud-first systems, such as BigQuery, […]
GCP – Aviator scales developer collaboration with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: In this post, we’ll hear from Aviator, an engineering productivity platform founded by former Googlers, about how its team is leveraging Google Cloud to build tools that solve developer collaboration challenges across the entire development lifecycle — from reviewing code to building, testing, merging, and deployment. If you have any follow-up questions after […]