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GCP Encrypted Traffic – How to Monitor
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…
AWS Simple Notification Service on GCP
Also read, Custom Metrics on GCP Google Cloud Monitoring Basics Logging on GCP and Service Accounts in GCP Overview - AWS SNS like Functionality on GCP? GCP's PubSub will…
Unsafe Practices on GCP and recommendations
(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
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…
Policies on AWS vs GCP
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…
Programmatic Identities – AWS and GCP Compared
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 for Accessing GCP Resources
Also read - OAuth Overview - and OAuth Consent Screen. Also, remember that OAuth is for Authorization (to protected resources) and not so much for plain authentication. Authentication is more…
Multi VPC Architecture GCP
This post discusses a few real world scenarios for organizations moving to Google Cloud. The idea is to understand how multiple VPC architectures in GCP, especially those leveraging Shared VPCs…
Shared VPC Networks in GCP – Basics
Sharing Subnets, Sharing Administration of Subnets and Instances within The key idea behind shared networking is to allow shared administration of resources - especially subnetworks and instances within those sub…
Extending your data center to GCP? Answer these questions first
Extending your data center to GCP? Answer these questions first Do you need application level encryption? If application-level encryption is needed, then partner interconnect or direct interconnect should be considered.…