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AWS Security Architect Level Audits on AWS Accounts
As an AWS Security Architect, one of your first tasks would be to go into your customer's account (or multiple AWS accounts) and look around for security specific events created…
Projects in GCP – 3 tier applications on Google Cloud
Also visit for in-depth GCP posts. Also Read - A Reusable Hub Spoke Network Design on GCP and Service Projects - VPCs or not As a Google Cloud Architect, your…
GCP – Example of IAM access on Project Level Resources
Also read - Projects in GCP Example of IAM in a project (compute engine instances) Select your user from IAM — and assign the following two roles (At the very least, you…
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…