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Multiple Accounts sharing a Transit Gateway (and a Direct Connect)
Also read Security Audits of AWS Accounts Can you share a Transit Gateway with multiple Accounts? Yes. After you share a transit gateway with another AWS account, the root user…
Azure NSGs vs. Azure Firewall
Also read Azure Firewall versus NSGs and GCP Firewall Rules NSGs are also network level allow deny rules. They can be applied at a Network Interface level or a subnet…
S3 IA Transition Rule
What is S3 IA? It is the SAME storage type as S3 standard, with a few advantages. S3 IA is about half the price of Standard to store, a penny…
Restricting access to AWS resources for certain users
A Brief Intro and Confusion Around Policies Most of the confusion arises from interchangeably using Service and Resource. For example, S3 is a service, but a bucket is the actual resource.…
Azure Hybrid Use Benefits (AHUB) versus Software Assurance on Azure
Microsoft Licensing, when you plan to move your windows workloads to Azure, provides you with quite a few options. Azure Hybrid Use Benefit - AHUB - is a great option,…
AWS AppStream Basics
How do you deploy an app? Go into AppStream's Image Builder --> Build Custom Image (Put Adobe, Wordpad, apps you like). Can I domain join the app stream instances with…
AWS AppStream 2.0 vs AWS Workspaces
How does AppStream differ from AWS Workspaces? AWS AppStream is focused on hosting individual applications on AWS ( Adobe, Firefox, Word, windows app that you can think of) while Amazon WorkSpaces creates…
SAML Federation to AWS AppStream
Why Federate Users to AppStream? The idea of AppStream is to allow individual users (usually, external users, such as students) to access their own version of an app (their own…
AWS VPN Connection – Customer Side Info Required and Approximate Costs
What is the end goal? The idea is to be able to address your cloud instances (EC2 instances) using their private IP addresses, as opposed to their public IPs. This…
AWS Snowball Q and A
Do I create an Import Job or an Export Job? To get data into S3, you create an import job. Here are the details needed for an import job (configured…