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DDoS protection service tiers explained simply

## Overview **Distributed denial of service** floods targets with traffic or expensive queries. Cloud **DDoS Protection Standard / AWS Shield Advanced...

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Aug 3, 2024 Read more →

Terraform state security practices

## Overview Terraform state holds secrets and full resource addresses. **Leaked state files** equal game over for many environments. ## Practices - *...

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Aug 2, 2024 Read more →

Cross-region replication testing expectations

## Overview Replicas and paired regions look good on slides until the first real failover. **Test restores and write consistency** per application tie...

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Aug 1, 2024 Read more →

DNS in cloud: redundancy pitfalls

## Overview DNS outages look like “the internet is broken.” Cloud DNS (Route 53, Azure DNS, Cloud DNS) is resilient, but **misconfiguration and stale...

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Jul 31, 2024 Read more →

Container registry scanning basics

## Overview Images ship dependencies; defects propagate fast. **Registry scanning** (ACR Defender, ECR scanning, third-party CI scanners) catches know...

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Jul 30, 2024 Read more →

Immutable infrastructure for web workloads

## Overview **Immutable** means you replace instances instead of patching in place—containers, VM scale sets with new images, or static sites behind C...

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Jul 29, 2024 Read more →

Tags and chargeback reporting standards

## Overview Untagged resources make **showback/chargeback** impossible and slow incident ownership questions. Enforce tags with **policy-as-code**, no...

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Jul 28, 2024 Read more →

Reserved instances versus savings plans

## Overview **Azure Reservations** and **AWS Savings Plans / Reserved Instances** cut spend in exchange for a **term commitment**. The MSP’s job is to...

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Jul 27, 2024 Read more →

Cloud firewall logging costs tradeoff

## Overview **Flow logs, threat intel, and full PCAP-style retention** can dwarf compute spend if you turn every dial to “max.” Design logging for **d...

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Jul 26, 2024 Read more →

Lift-and-shift versus refactor guidance

## Overview Help stakeholders choose between **rehost** (fast, lower change risk) and **refactor/replatform** (cost and agility upside, more project r...

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Jul 25, 2024 Read more →

Key Vault access patterns for apps

## Overview Azure Key Vault stores secrets, keys, and certificates. **Misconfigured access** is a common audit finding and breach accelerator. ## Pat...

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Jul 24, 2024 Read more →

Azure Backup versus third-party for IaaS

## Overview **Azure Backup** (Recovery Services Vault) covers many IaaS patterns with native integration; third-party tools add cross-cloud, deeper ap...

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