Automated Vulnerability Scanning for Cloud Resources: A Checklist
In March, a fintech client called us at 2 AM because an attacker had pulled 14GB of customer records from an S3 bucket that nobody on their team remembered creating.…
Azure Scalability vs Elasticity: What Actually Matters for Planning
After a client asked me to sanity-check their Azure capacity plan ahead of a product launch, I remembered that I had written a half-page note on Azure scalability vs elasticity…
Azure SQL Database: Managed Relational Database Service Overview
The Hidden Cost of Hosting Your Own SQL Server A financial services client came to us running SQL Server 2016 on three dedicated virtual machines — patching schedules managed manually,…
Azure Cloud Infrastructure: Hard Lessons from a Real Outage
Six hours of downtime. One Azure region. Zero redundancy. I got the call at 11 PM on a Tuesday and spent the rest of the night explaining to a very…