Azure Cloud Shell
Where is the Storage Coming From? It comes from containers already running on Azure. When you click on the Azure Cloud Shell icon, your cloud shell connects to…
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I am passionate about getting cloud solutions right the first time. I help customers transition to the public cloud with the appropriate security controls and guardrails. GCP, AWS and Azure Security Specialist.
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Custom Roles in GCP
Before we get to custom roles, let us talk about why we need custom roles in GCP (Also read, Service accounts and bindings in GCP). The first use…
AWS DMS troubleshooting
Also read RDS Deep Dive Enable Cloudwatch Logs for your DMS Task This is a simple checkbox in the ‘modify’ section of your DMS Task. This is the…
Git Getting Started
These are some basic commands to help with – git getting started. To clone an existing repo and make changes locally and push the changes back to the…
Applications and Service Accounts
Also read Best Practices around GCP Service Accounts Service Accounts in GCP Service accounts are ubiquitous in GCP – there are built in SAs (for most major services)…
RDS Monitoring, RDS Snapshots and Failover – A Deeper Dive into AWS RDS
There’s a lot more to AWS RDS than simply spinning up a multi-AZ RDS instance and connecting to it. DB (Manual) Snapshots versus Automated Snapshots You have the…
Troubleshooting RDS AWS Connectivity
This is a quick post to help diagnose RDS AWS Connectivity Issues – Also read (Getting Data into AWS’ RDS and also the official AWS RDS Oracle…
GCP Service Accounts and IAM Bindings
It took me a while to get a handle on these…This post will hopefully clear up some initial teething issues around creating iam bindings. (Also, read ‘Service Accounts…
Service Accounts in GCP
Also read – 2 minute Security Solution for GCP Environments Overview Along with understanding the GCP Project boundary, Service accounts are key to understanding the day to day operational…
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…