Amazon Web Services (AWS) is well-known for its high security credentials, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH/FEDERAMP, GDPR/FIPS 140–2, and NIST 800–171 certifications. The fact that a number of government entities have their IT systems deployed in the AWS cloud demonstrates the importance they give to security and regulatory compliance. Having said that…

This article is a continuation to my earlier series on Seeding the seat of intelligence where I concluded with the capability to edit an organism’s gene. Palindromes in DNA Undoubtedly, observation is the genesis for Innovation. In 1987, Yoshizumi Ishino and a group of Japanese scientists…

Congratulations on taking the first step of deciding to take up AWS Security Specialty exam. I have been working in AWS since last 5 years and specializing on Security since last 2 years. Like any other certification, more than the delight of getting a badge for yourself that you could…

Read the previous article of this series. Leveraging AWS Service Catalog to build a self-service platform AWS Service Catalog provides the capability to offer a self-service experience to developers who are constantly looking for agility and faster time to market. At the same time, it helps organizations to bring in control, standardization and apply governance to all of the…

Cloud computing offers the benefit of flexible infrastructure. While provisioning infrastructure is simple, it has the potential to quickly expand into a massive estate of unreliable servers. One of the most basic requirements for a business attempting to implement DevOps concepts is that application developers should have consistent infrastructure. This…

THE ADVANTAGEOUS ANOMALY Link to Part 1 There have been occasions when I’ve endeavored to balance using all of my limbs. I had once toured to Hebbe falls, Chikmagalur, Karanataka. A steep route with rounded and slippery rock faces must be traversed a few meters before you could see the…

Data and Applications were all networked together mounted on an infrastructure of powerful servers in a landmass called Datacenter much like how the modern-day continents were clustered together to form the Pangea. Around 200 million years ago these continents started drifting away from…

“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.” — Wilder Penfield “I wish I had a memory chip in my brain, am just not tuned to learning new languages” came a grumbling voice followed by…

A cyber security breach is no longer about disabling our access to our apps, data or communication channels but disabling safety alarms at home, disrupting navigation systems in a car or even leaving gasoline stations run out of fuel. The internet is being used as a battleground to take control…