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Billing Accounts in AWS and GCP
AWS Billing Account In AWS, when you create an account, it contains a Billing Account. Sub Accounts can be added for recreating an organizational hierarchy. Each sub-account comes with it's…
Routes and Route Tables – AWS vs GCP
What is a Route? A route is an instruction for directing traffic. It is applied to an entire set of IP addresses - typically to an entire VPC or a…
Folders and Projects – The right way to do an organizational hierarchy in Google Cloud
Also visit for in-depth GCP posts. Also read Folders and Billing in GCP What does your billing roll up to? Folders can be used in a variety of ways. They…
Peered VPCs in Google Cloud versus AWS
The VPC Boundary VPCs are a logical boundary within a public cloud. The actual contents of this logical boundary are physical networking constructs, including subnets, IP addresses, routes and such. In…
AWS KMS basics, Encryption of EBS volumes, Attaching EC2 instances
What is Envelope Encryption? If you had a huge chunk of data to be encrypted and did not want to use your cloud encryption service (KMS) to encrypt the entire…
AWS Networking Basics and Recap
How do you logically create ‘private’ partitions of the public cloud? How do you break up a VPC into Tiers designed for specific workloads? (Answer – Subnets) Inside each AZ,…
AWS SSO from an On-Premises Active Directory
Users on your on-premises Active Directory need SSO access to a) AWS accounts and b) cloud applications in the AWS SSO user portal AWS Directory Service has the following two options…
Azure VPN Setup and Troubleshooting
There are three constructs that are needed to setup an Azure VPN Tunnel. These are VPN Gateway (a type of a VNG), a Local Gateway and a Connection. Virtual network…
NGS in Azure
Network Security Groups can be applied to a VM or subnet, and in some cases to both. In certain cases ( turning a VM into a DMZ), it may be…