Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Simplify your multi-cloud strategy with Cloud Location Finder, now in preview
As cloud environments expand beyond traditional architectures to include multiple clouds, managing your infrastructure effectively becomes more complex. Imagine easily accessing consistent and up-to-date location information across different cloud providers, so your multi-cloud applications are designed and optimized with performance, security, and regulatory compliance in mind. Today, we are making this a reality with Cloud […]
GCP – C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads
We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful performance improvements — up to 80% higher throughput for web serving and 30% better performance for general computing workloads compared to the […]
AWS – AWS announces open-source AWS API Models
AWS announces an official source for AWS API Model definition files and service model packages, providing developers with access to API definitions for all AWS services. We now publish daily updates of these API models to an open-source GitHub repository in Smithy format and also publish these packages to Maven Central. AWS public service models […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports seven new compliance frameworks
Today, AWS announces that AWS Control Tower supports seven new compliance frameworks in Control Catalog. Control Catalog is the central place in AWS for searching and enabling managed controls.In addition to existing frameworks, controls are now mapped to CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, ISO-IEC-27001:2013-Annex-A, NIST-CSF-v1.1, NIST-SP-800-171-r2, PCI-DSS-v4.0, SSAE-18-SOC-2-Oct-2023. To get started, navigate to the Control Catalog in AWS […]
AWS – AWS KMS adds support for post-quantum ML-DSA digital signatures
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) now supports the FIPS 203 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard (MLDSA), a quantum-resistant digital signature algorithm designed to help organizations address emerging quantum computing threats. This post-quantum signature algorithm is one of the selected algorithms standardized by NIST to protect sensitive information well into the foreseeable future, including after the advent […]
AWS – Extend Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins with MCP tools
Today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the integrated development environment (IDE) plugins, enabling developers to utilize external tools to support richer contextual, development workflows. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI models can, in a secure and structured way, access external tools, data sources, and APIs. You […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) that makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads, is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon VPC IPAM allows you to easily organize your IP addresses based on your routing and security needs, and set […]
AWS – Amazon Connect enhances communication limits for Outbound Campaigns
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now offers new instance-level communication total limit control to give you greater flexibility in configuring how often you want to engage with your customers across multiple campaigns. It also provides the ability to opt out of limit controls for critical campaigns. These new capabilities enable more efficient and targeted customer engagement […]
GCP – How good is your AI? Gen AI evaluation at every stage, explained
As AI moves from promising experiments to landing core business impact, the most critical question is no longer “What can it do?” but “How well does it do it?”. Ensuring the quality, reliability, and safety of your AI applications is a strategic imperative. To guide you, evaluation must be your North Star—a constant process that […]
GCP – How to benchmark and scale your Google Cloud Managed Service for Kafka deployment
Businesses that rely on real-time data for decision-making and application development need a robust and scalable streaming platform, and Apache Kafka has emerged as the leading solution. At its core, Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that allows applications to publish and subscribe to streams of records, much like a message queue or enterprise messaging […]