SAP Hana on GCP – Memory Optimized Instances
For applications that require terabytes of RAM, GCP’s memory optimized machine types are suitable. SAP Hana is a good example of such an application. Need an experienced…
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Multi Zone and Multi Region Deployments in GCP (and their Egress charges on GCP)
Also read IP Addressing in GCP and Firewall Rules in GCP Zones and Regions A subnet in GCP can span across multiple zones and multiple regions. When you…
Fewer Subnets with Larger Address Spaces – Best Practices for VPC Subnetting in GCP
Subnets and Routes work differently in GCP, partly due to the global nature of GCP VPCs. Group applications into fewer subnets with larger address ranges Unlike other networking…
Native GCP Firewall and Firewall Rules
Firewalls in GCP vs AWS AWS SGs are only ALLOW rules. For DENY, you need to go to NACLs GCP full blown FW rules -allow and deny, just…
Egress Costs that come into play with a Transit VPC
Egress charges incur TWICE when traffic goes through a TRANSIT VPC (Regardless of AWS or GCP). This is true on both AWS and GCP. Adding additional filtering…
Patching versus Reloading Images
Today’s Public Cloud Hosting introduces a slight twist on the data center ‘patching’ paradigm. Instead of patching an OS, one typically reloads the base image (AMI in AWS,…
KMS Keys in a Single Project or Multiple Projects?
Also read KMS – Auditing Key Activity and KMS – Monitoring and Alerting Storing all KMS Keys in a single project has some advantages. One can tightly place…
KMS Auditing Key Activity
Which KMS Activities are not LOGGED by default? (Also read KMS Monitoring and Alerting ) IMonitoring administrative activities vs. data access activities: All administrative KMS activities are logged by…
GCP KMS Monitoring and Alerting
KMS Monitoring Example Use the gcloud logging metrics create command to create a counter metric that will monitor any occurrence of the scheduled destruction of a key version.…
Network Admin versus Security Admin in GCP
These can be defined at any level , but the Organization level is the most common. In addition to these network admins, there are also shared VPC admins…