Welcome to above the clouds

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Quick build support for time-series forecast models
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Quick build support for time-series forecasting models, enabling faster prototyping and experimentation to select the best performing machine learning (ML) model. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having […]

AWS – Announcing new AWS Amplify Library for Swift, now with support for both iOS and macOS
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amplify Library for Swift (previously Amplify iOS)! This release allows Swift developers to easily build cloud-connected iOS apps. Since its Developer Preview release in April 2022, we have re-written our APIs to support idiomatic Swift features like async/await that makes it easier for developers to […]

AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized delivers double the compute capacity and is now fully SSD NVMe storage
AWS announced an enhanced Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with expanded compute, memory and storage options. The AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device doubled the compute capacity up to 104 vCPUs, doubled the memory capacity up to 416GB RAM, and is now fully SSD with 28TB NVMe storage. AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is a secure, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers improved machine learning capabilities
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers improved machine learning capabilities to continuously understand issues throughout a call and to deliver the right knowledge article to contact center agents. Wisdom analyzes contact center calls in real-time and proactively delivers agents the information they need to solve customer issues, improving agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Read More for […]

AWS – PostgreSQL 15 Release Candidate 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 15 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the release candidate of PostgreSQL 15 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 15 RC2 for development and testing in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment without the hassle of installing, provisioning, […]

Azure – Generally available: Auto Extension upgrade for Arc enabled Servers
Azure Arc can now provide high availability and automatic protection against zero-day or critical vulnerabilities in Azure extensions to your Arc enabled Servers Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation on AWS
We are announcing the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation for accelerated GPU instances on AWS Marketplace. RHEL Workstation is a cloud-based remote desktop solution that allows end users from anywhere in the world to access a workstation instance to do their work and collaborate with team members. RHEL Workstation is designed for […]

Azure – General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unifying data and AI to bring unstructured data analytics to BigQuery
Over one third of organizations believe that data analytics and machine learning have the most potential to significantly alter the way they run business over the next 3 to 5 years. However, only 26% of organizations are data driven. One of the biggest reasons for this gap is that a major portion of the data […]
Azure – General availability: Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup
Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements. Read More for the details.