Welcome to above the clouds

Azure – NC-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023. Read More for the details.

AWS – Managed entitlements in AWS License Manager now supports license usage for AWS Marketplace licenses
AWS License Manager announces support for license usage tracking for customers granting entitlements from AWS Marketplace. This feature allows AWS Marketplace to track and meter license usage across AMI and metered SaaS products. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Foreign Data Wrapper for Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports a foreign data wrapper that can connect to databases that use the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol, such as Sybase databases and Microsoft SQL server. You can use this foreign data wrapper to connect to data sources in other databases eliminating the need to replicate or copy data. Read More […]

GCP – Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
We’re excited to announce an enhancement of our preview of Certificate Manager which allows Google Cloud customers to acquire public certificates for their workloads that terminate TLS directly or for their cross-cloud and on-premise workloads. This is accomplished via the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol which is the same protocol used by Certificate Authorities […]

GCP – Add severity levels to your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring
When you are dealing with a situation that fires a bevy of alerts, do you instinctively know which alerts are the most pressing? Severity levels are an important concept in alerting to aid you and your team in properly assessing which notifications should be prioritized. You can use these levels to focus on the issues […]

GCP – 5 companies, 1 clear path to cloud success: RISE with SAP on Google Cloud
The practical benefits of migrating SAP systems to the cloud aren’t lost on most businesses. Running SAP in the cloud lets companies simplify tasks, scale quickly, and reduce costs. But as a growing number of organizations are discovering, the cloud is more than the sum of improved processes and workflows. It offers unique and powerful […]

GCP – Add preprocessing functions to Tensorflow models and deploy on Vertex AI
One does not simply productionalize machine learning models. If you’ve developed models before, you know that most of the time input features need to be preprocessed before they are ready to be consumed by a model. Often this preprocessing step is done by another application before sending the processed output to the prediction engine. This […]
Azure – IoT connector preview feature in Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2022
Migrate to MedTech service feature which provides stronger security and supportability. Read More for the details.