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GCP Encrypted Traffic – How to Monitor

anuj February 3, 2021 GCP Encrypted Traffic – How to Monitor2021-06-08T00:41:56+00:00 Google Cloud Platform No Comment

By default all traffic in GCP is encrypted. How does one capture traffic in logs ( VPC Flow logs) if it is all encrypted? GCP stores (logs) a copy of…

Unsafe Practices on GCP and recommendations

anuj December 2, 2020 Unsafe Practices on GCP and recommendations2020-12-02T16:28:43+00:00 Google Cloud Platform No Comment

(Also read, AWS Security Audits ) Google Cloud is leading the way in terms of several PaaS offerings. GCP's App Engine, GKE and BigQuery are among the leaders in the…

Google Cloud Monitoring using a Storage Bucket as an Example

anuj November 26, 2020 Google Cloud Monitoring using a Storage Bucket as an Example2024-01-17T16:37:16+00:00 GCP Cloud Storage 2 Comments

Monitoring refers to Operational Metrics, as opposed to traditional logging, which refers to audit trails. In AWS, the logging (CloudTrail) is a separate service from the Monitoring (CloudWatch, Cloudwatch Events…

S3 Request Metrics, Cloudwatch Alarms

anuj November 25, 2020 S3 Request Metrics, Cloudwatch Alarms2020-11-26T07:23:59+00:00 AWS 1 Comment

Overview It is useful to get notifications (dashboard alarms and email notifications) when S3 uploads fail (request metric). Or when your bucket exceeds a certain size (Storage metric). The S3…

Policies on AWS vs GCP

anuj November 24, 2020 Policies on AWS vs GCP2020-11-24T21:42:14+00:00 AWS No Comment

Also read Programmatic Identities on Google Cloud vs AWS Policies in AWS A policy definition by itself, contains very little in AWS. It contains what type of resources (NOT the…

Azure Security Architect – Security Guardrails

anuj November 24, 2020 Azure Security Architect – Security Guardrails2021-10-05T14:23:46+00:00 Azure 1 Comment

What are some azure specific guardrails that need to be in place for a safe landing? Before you migrate even a single workload, you may want to address some of…

GKE Topologies

anuj November 24, 2020 GKE Topologies2020-11-24T15:56:52+00:00 GKE No Comment

Scenario 1 - For an upcoming Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, the current cluster size is expected to host 10 nodes, with 20 Pods per node and 150 services. Because…

Programmatic Identities – AWS and GCP Compared

anuj November 24, 2020 Programmatic Identities – AWS and GCP Compared2020-12-06T00:36:19+00:00 GCP IAM 1 Comment

Where is the Calling Application? Before we get to the details about programmatic identities in GCP vs. AWS, it is good to first ask the question - where will my…

OAuth Overview in GCP – OAuth Consent Screen and OAuth Client ID

anuj November 23, 2020 OAuth Overview in GCP – OAuth Consent Screen and OAuth Client ID2023-05-09T14:26:46+00:00 No Comment

also read OAuth basics Human users (of an app) vs. the App itself as a user It is important to distinguish human users (app user logins) versus the app itself.…

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