Practical guides on security, cost, performance, reliability, and operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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Learn why a GCP firewall rule exposing NetBIOS ports 137-138 to the public internet is dangerous, and how to fix and prevent it with CLI, Terraform, and OPA.
Amazon MQ brokers without audit logging leave admin actions untracked. Learn the risks and how to enable audit logging via CLI, console, and Terraform.
Learn why an Azure App Service with no IP access restrictions is a security risk, and how to lock it down with CLI, Terraform, and Azure Policy.
Learn why disabled Redshift audit logging is a security risk and how to enable connection, user, and activity logs with CLI, console, and Terraform examples.
Learn why Amazon Redshift clusters outside a VPC are a security risk, and how to migrate them into a VPC with snapshots, CLI, and Terraform.
Learn why unencrypted EBS volumes are a real risk, how to encrypt them step by step, and how to enforce EBS encryption by default with SCPs and CI gates.
Learn why disabled S3 encryption in AWS Glue security configurations exposes ETL data, and how to fix it with CLI, Terraform, and CI/CD policy gates.
Two active IAM access keys double your credential attack surface. Learn why this AWS misconfiguration is risky and how to remediate and prevent it.
Learn why CloudFront allowing unencrypted HTTP is a security risk, how to enforce HTTPS with the viewer protocol policy, and how to prevent regressions with IaC.
Learn why CloudTrail log file validation matters, the tampering risks it prevents, and how to enable it with CLI, Terraform, SCPs, and policy-as-code gates.
Learn why disabled VPC Flow Logs leave you blind during a breach, plus step-by-step CLI and Terraform fixes and policy-as-code to keep them enabled.
Learn why every AWS account needs an IAM role with AWSSupportAccess, how a missing support role slows incident response, and how to fix and automate it.
Learn why Azure VMs without guest-level diagnostics leave you blind to memory, disk, and log data, and how to enable the Azure Monitor Agent to fix it.
Legacy ABAC on GKE grants broad, hard to audit permissions that bypass RBAC. Learn why it's risky, how to disable it safely, and how to prevent it returning.
Learn why a GCP firewall rule exposing Redis on port 6379 is a critical risk, how to lock it down with gcloud and Terraform, and how to prevent it returning.
A public GCP Compute Engine disk image can leak secrets, keys, and source code. Learn how to detect, remediate, and prevent publicly accessible disk images.
Learn why GKE node pools should run Container-Optimized OS, the security risks of using Ubuntu, and how to migrate node pools to COS with CLI and Terraform.
A target group with a 0-second deregistration delay drops in-flight requests during deploys and scale-in. Learn the risk, the fix, and how to prevent drift.
