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AWS Custom Groups and (Managed) Policies Needed
This is meant to be a quick recap of some recommended custom AWS Groups and the included Managed Policies. A Network Admin Group AWS managed policy name: NetworkAdministrator A Security Auditor…
Oracle on AWS RDS
These are some field tips for migrating Oracle databases to AWS RDS (or custom EC2 instances). Tuning, Monitoring, Pricing, Backup tips are included. Often, a reference to the appropriate AWS…
KMS Basics AWS (or GCP)
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gRPC vs REST
gRPC vs REST gRPC is very similar to REST (Resources, methods and GET/POST representation) gRPC uses Protocol Buffers. Protocol Buffers uses binary encoding - as opposed to the JSON used…
Secrets Manager and KMS in AWS
To protect secrets, Secrets Manager uses envelope encryption with AWS KMS customer master keys (CMKs) and data keys. Secrets Manager uses a unique data key to protect each secret value. Whenever the secret value in…
Default Firewall Rules in GCP
Also read - Best practices for GCP Firewall Rules and Firewall Policies in GCP For a VM that lives in the default VPC, there are a few default firewall rules…
Google Accounts vs. Active Directory Users
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Sharing Resources across GCP Projects
There's two options when it comes to sharing resources that live in either different VPCs and/or different Projects in GCP For Different Projects - Use a Shared VPC A shared…
IP Addressing for VMs on GCP
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What exactly is SSL Offloading? And which GCP Load Balancers offer Offloading?
What is SSL Offloading? Certain TLS functions ( the handshake and the encryption/decryption) can be compute expensive. Offloading these functions frees up processing power from your hosted website / webapp.…