Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Twitter: gaining insights from Tweets with an API for Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Although Twitter has long been considered a treasure trove of data, the task of analyzing Tweets in order to understand what’s happening in the world, what people are talking about right now, and how this information can support business use cases has historically been highly technical and time-consuming. Not anymore. Twitter recently launched […]
GCP – Earn Google Cloud swag when you complete the #LearnToEarn challenge
The MLOps market is expected to grow to around $700m by 20251. With the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification topping the list of highest paying IT certifications in 20212, there has never been a better time to grow your data and ML skills with Google Cloud. Introducing the Google Cloud #LearnToEarn challenge Starting today, […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to migrate a group of individual instances to a stateful MIG using Python script
A GCP Compute Engine managed instance group (MIG) supports any VM configuration that you need, and it helps manage the VMs for you. For example, when a VM in a MIG unexpectedly stops running, the MIG recreates that VM according to the configuration that you set. You can also set up an application-based health check […]
AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing and Ningxia Regions
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China Ningxia Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Amazon EKS is a managed container service […]
GCP – Learn how BI Engine enhances BigQuery query performance
BigQuery BI Engine is a fast, in-memory analysis service that lets users analyze data stored in BigQuery with rapid response times and with high concurrency to accelerate certain BigQuery SQL queries. BI Engine caches data instead of query results, allowing different queries over the same data to be accelerated as you look at different aspects […]
GCP – Black Kite runs millions of cyber-risk assessments at scale on Google Cloud
Data breaches and ransomware attacks impact millions of people every year. Although major corporations have the resources to comply with international data privacy laws and standards, many smaller companies in high-risk markets struggle to protect sensitive customer information. These vulnerable businesses are often targeted by cyber criminals who use them as digital stepping-stones to attack […]
GCP – Stronger privacy control for the public sector with client-side encryption
Government agencies regularly work with sensitive data, such as financial data, personally identifiable information, or proprietary information. Handling this data requires agencies to meet confidentiality and compliance requirements. At the same time, agencies don’t want to compromise on the collaboration experience they provide to their employees. Control confidentiality of your data through encryption keys Encryption […]