Welcome to above the clouds

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment
The Amplify CLI now gives developers the ability to make multiple global secondary index (GSI) updates to their Amazon DynamoDB tables in a single deployment, enabling faster and safer data model iterations. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers create cloud backends and connect them to their […]

AWS – Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles
IAM helps customers with capabilities to analyze access and achieve least privilege. When you are working on new permissions for your teams, you can use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation to create a policy based on your access activity and set fine-grained permissions. To analyze and refine existing permissions, you can use last accessed information […]

GCP – Bigtable vs. BigQuery: What’s the difference?
Many people wonder if they should use BigQuery or Bigtable. While these two services have a number of similarities, including “Big” in their names, they support very different use cases in your big data ecosystem. At a high level,Bigtable is a NoSQL wide-column database. It’s optimized for low latency, large numbers of reads and writes, […]

AWS – Introducing Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework v2.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. This solution is a framework to send equipment telemetry data to your AWS account, allowing you to leverage AWS Services to conduct analysis on your equipment data instead of managing underlying infrastructure […]