Welcome to above the clouds
 
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Amazon EC2 Calculator supports dedicated instance pricing
The AWS Pricing Calculator now offers a redesigned user interface that allows you to generate price estimates for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the shared tenancy model, the dedicated tenancy model, and Amazon EC2 dedicated hosts. The calculator makes it easier for you to switch among the three tenancy options with a […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Introducing concurrent account provisioning operations for AWS Control Tower
We are excited to announce support for concurrent account factory actions in AWS Control Tower, allowing you to create, update, or enroll up to five accounts at a time. AWS Control Tower account factory makes it easy for you to provision accounts and automate deployment of AWS resources, roles and policies within those accounts to […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – How to develop and test your Cloud Functions locally
Developing code for serverless platforms requires a different approach to your development flow. Since the platform provides and maintains the entire stack, from compute infrastructure up to the function handler, your code runs in a fully managed and abstracted environment. This can make it time consuming and inefficient to debug your code by deploying and […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports percentage-based thresholds
Starting today, customers of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection will be able to define percentage-based thresholds when configuring their alerting preferences. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly take action to avoid runaway spend and bill shocks. The percentage-based […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source. With this launch, you can now transfer your unstructured data from SharePoint Online to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in just a few clicks. This SharePoint Online integration […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                AWS – Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup
Amazon Timestream announces a fully managed data protection functionality through integration with AWS Backup. You can now protect your time series data through immutable backups, automate backup lifecycle management, copy your backup across AWS Regions and accounts, and restore your data with ease. Read More for the details.
 
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – BigQuery Omni: solving cross-cloud challenges by bringing analytics to your data
Research shows that over 90% of large organizations already deploy multicloud architectures, and their data is distributed across several public cloud providers. Additionally, data is also increasingly split across various storage systems such as warehouses, operational and relational databases, object stores, etc. With the proliferation of new applications, data is serving many more use cases […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                GCP – IT prediction: Multicloud is a phase, not the final destination
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: Over half of all organizations using public cloud will freely switch their primary cloud provider as a result of available […]
 
                                                                    
                                                                Azure – General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features – SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set. Read More for the details.
 
                                                                    
                                                                Azure – Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host – Restart
Introducing Azure dedicated host – Restart functionality Read More for the details.
