Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Google’s Virtual Desktop of the Future
Did you know that most Google employees rely on virtual desktops to get their work done? This represents a paradigm shift in client computing at Google, and was especially critical during the pandemic and the remote work revolution. We’re excited to continue enabling our employees to be productive, anywhere! This post covers the history of […]
Azure – Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes – E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5
New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs while potentially reducing software licensing costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Egypt
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Egypt. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports Apache Iceberg table format
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to create feature groups in the offline store in Apache Iceberg table format. The offline store contains historical ML features, organized into logical feature groups, and is used for model training and batch inference. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets such […]
AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
With the general availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, customers in that region can now automate the creation, sharing, copying and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS resources, saving you […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 65 – November 2022
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports Custom Language Models for German and Japanese languages
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models (CLM) now support German and Japanese languages in both batch and streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to use pre-existing data to […]
AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect launches APIs to manage rules
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides APIs that enable you to programmatically manage rules for Contact Lens’ conversational analytics and third party applications (e.g., Salesforce etc.). Rules allow you to automatically categorize contacts, send notifications about customer escalations, and assign tasks when a new case is created in your third party application. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn Instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region.
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Europe (Paris) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of […]
AWS – Recycle Bin for Amazon Machine Images is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon EC2 customers can now use Recycle Bin for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region to recover from accidental deletions to meet their business continuity needs. With Recycle Bin, you can specify a retention time period and recover a deregistered AMI if needed, before the expiration of the retention period. A […]