Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service […]
AWS – Amazon MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Apache Kafka v3.9
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9 for Express Brokers. This release introduces support for KRaft (Kafka Raft), Apache Kafka’s new consensus protocol that eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management. KRaft shifts metadata management in Kafka clusters from external Apache ZooKeeper nodes to a group of […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
AWS Direct Connect now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve application performance, observability, and resilience. With this capability, you can test and observe how your applications respond when Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions over your Virtual Interfaces are disrupted and […]
AWS – Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces additional health and performance metrics
Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announced a new set of Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the health and performance of fleets, sessions, instances, and users. Administrators and support operations personnel can conveniently enable monitoring across fleets from the Amazon CloudWatch console. These metrics simplify troubleshooting and dynamically update to reflect the latest state of important performance […]
AWS – AWS Databases are now available on the Vercel Marketplace
Today, AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling you to create and connect to an AWS database directly from Vercel in seconds. To get started, you can create a new AWS Account from Vercel that includes access to the three databases and […]
GCP – Automate AI and HPC clusters with Cluster Director, now generally available
The complexity of the infrastructure behind AI training and high performance computing (HPC) workloads can really slow teams down. At Google Cloud, where we work with some of the world’s largest AI research teams, we see it everywhere we go: researchers hampered by complex configuration files, platform teams struggling to manage GPUs with home-grown scripts, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL version 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate PostgreSQL 18.1 on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 18.1 was released by the PostgreSQL community on September 9, 2025. PostgreSQL 18.1 includes “skip scan” support for multicolumn B-tree indexes and improves WHERE clause handling for OR […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025
For most organizations, the question is no longer if they will use AI, but how to scale it from a promising prototype into a production-grade service that drives business outcomes. In this age of inference, competitive advantage is defined by your ability to serve useful information to users around the world at the lowest possible […]