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This Week I Learned -  * Microsoft, which sells the rival Azure, used open programming interfaces to hook into its competitors’ products, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and provide its cybersecurity services.  * Azure Security Center and Azure Defender are now called Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Defender for Cloud is a tool for security posture management and threat protection. Defender for Cloud protects workloads running in Azure, hybrid, and other cloud platforms including Google Cloud and AWS.  *  Chaos engineering is a methodology that helps developers attain consistent reliability by hardening services against failures in production.  *  Google Cloud Cheat Sheet v2 for developers  has a flashcard version of Google Cloud 4-words-or-less cheat sheet * Oracle Cloud Infrastructure currently offers a realm for commercial regions and two realms for government cloud regions: FedRAMP authorized and IL5 authorized. A realm is a logical c...

This Week I Learned -  * Google Cloud Functions Gen2 supports larger instances (16GB, 4CPU), longer processing times (60mins!) and 90+ event sources! Functions are powered by CloudRun. *  Template for a well-architected assessment report *  OCI for Azure Architects *  OCI for AWS Architects * Being multicloud fluent & understanding the strengths and tradeoffs of different cloud providers can help you make the best choice of services and architectures for new projects. *  Skills are like apps for Alexa . They enable customers to easily interact with your content, devices, and services with their voice, the most natural user interface. *  Terraform Course - From Beginner to Pro * When implementing the actual functionality of the API, the choices are endless. You can implement on Oracle Kubernetes Engine or Helidon or have custom code running and Compute or create modern serverless APIs using Oracle Functions or  work against the Autonomous Database a...

I have been keen to achieve the  AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification since sometime to improve my understanding & intuition for multi-cloud technologies. I'm glad to have finally achieved it.  The exam covers a wide breadth of topics. I found the following resources very helpful: Stephane Maarek's Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2022   13 hour video course that includes a 596 slide deck for reference . Among the practice tests, I especially loved this  Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional  (4 hours) course from AWS on how to come up with the reasoning for picking the right option for a question. Anti-patterns are highlighted and the limitations of services were well explained to show why certain choices should NOT be used. This added a whole new perspective.  AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Sample Questions Udemy AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professiona...