Welcome to above the clouds

GCP – When two become one: Integrating Google Cloud Organizations after a merger or acquisition
Congratulations! Your company just acquired or merged with another organization, beginning an important new chapter in its history. But like with many business deals, the devil is in the details — particularly when it comes to integrating the two companies’ cloud domains and organizations. In this blog post, we look at how to approach mergers […]

GCP – Anthos on-prem and on bare metal now power Google Distributed Cloud Virtual
Last year, we announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a portfolio of hardware, software, and services that will bring our infrastructure to the edge and into your data centers. In March, Google Distributed Cloud Edge became generally availableto deliver an integrated hardware and software solution for new telco and enterprise edge workloads. And today, we are […]

GCP – Wayfair: Accelerating MLOps to power great experiences at scale
Machine Learning (ML) is part of everything we do at Wayfair to support each of the 30 million active customers on our website. It enables us to make context-aware, real-time and intelligent decisions across every aspect of our business. We use ML models to forecast product demand across the globe, to ensure our customers can […]

GCP – How one Googler uses talking tulips to connect with customers
Editor’s Note: Matt Feigal has spent years deep inside many of our customers’ toughest technical problems, and now helps our partners solve innumerable issues for even more customers. That success at engineering problem-solving didn’t come about as you’d expect, though. He’s got an inspiring range of skills in empathy, entertaining…and engineering. What was your path […]

GCP – Announcing general availability of Confidential GKE Nodes
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Confidential GKE Nodes. Many organizations have made Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) the foundation of their modern application architectures. While the benefits of containers and Kubernetes can outweigh that of traditional architectures, moving to and running those apps in the cloud often entails careful planning to minimize […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up and down based on your application’s specific needs. Starting today, you can run applications orchestrated by AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read […]

GCP – Announcing gcpdiag – Open Source Troubleshooting Tool for Google Cloud Platform
We strive to make Google Cloud as easy to use as possible, and one of the ways we do this is to listen closely to our customer feedback that comes in through our Google Cloud Support team. Besides helping the customers immediately, the support team is also using the experience gained through this feedback to […]

GCP – Palantir and Google Cloud partner to power data-driven transformations in commercial industries
Enterprises of all shapes and sizes have growing amounts of data available to them, and being able to leverage that data easily and quickly for data-driven operations is increasingly critical to staying competitive. However, integrating, shaping, and analyzing data can be extremely time intensive. To help businesses accelerate their operational analytics journeys, Palantir, a leader […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager in nine new regions
You can create an Azure Virtual Network Manager instance in nine more regions and manage your virtual networks at scale across regions, subscriptions, management groups, and tenants globally from a single pane of glass. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing enhanced integration with Service Quotas for Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to proactively manage your account and table quotas through enhanced integration with Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can now view the current values of all your DynamoDB quotas. You can also monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas. Read More for the details.