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The GCP Project Boundary, Trust Boundary and the Principle of Least Privilege
Projects are holders of resources, akin to Accounts in AWS. While AWS accounts are MUCH more than simple resource containers, this is still the best way to visualize the correspondence…
Add a VPN Tunnel to a VPN Connection on GCP
Overview A VPN Connection is an abstraction (in Google Cloud Platform terms) - while a VPN Tunnel is the implementation. A connection can have one or more tunnels. There are…
Azure Logic Apps versus API Gateway
External APIs and Connectors - to be consumed by data center (or Azure hosted) apps - Use Azure Logic Apps Azure Logic Apps provides both API connectors as well as…
Gov Cloud Regions in GCP?
While there isn't a separate GOV region (like in AWS or azure), GCP does offer the ability to run Fedramp compliant workloads in several regions (5 for HIGH fedramp classified…
Elasticsearch vs. Azure Search – Questions to Ask
Some Important Questions to Ask Database Indexing Capabilities and DB Engines supported? Specialized data types? - geospatial data types geo_point, geo_shape, or completion. Additional Features such as OCR and Cognitive Search? Pricing Models…
Cloudflare or native cloud CDN?
Firstly, it is important to realize that most public clouds DO NOT have a 'native' CDN offering. They leverage existing CDNs such as akamai, Fastly, Highwinds, Level3 and EdgeCast. For instance,…
Sandbox environments in google cloud
Tools to help with Sandbox Environments A manual process to build sandboxes is always an option. There are a couple of popular one is Buddy (some highlights below). This post will…
Letsencrypt Certbot on Amazon ec2 linux – LetsEncrypt Client Install – What a headache
At first glance, finding AWS's exact documentation on how to get this working, may excite you. Until you find that you encounter the same error that you would get were…
GCP p12 files and service accounts – for accessing Storage Buckets, Google Drives and more
Service accounts are useful for a variety of GCP use cases. A service account (email) is like a username. If you are just using the service account within GCP, you…
Putty to log in to AWS EC2
It took me a few clicks to get putty working with an ec2 instance. This assumes you have putty and puttyGen installed locally. In putty UI - Session --> IP…