Story of a Cloud Architect & Blurry Lines of Control with AWS

Story of a Cloud Architect & Blurry Lines of Control with AWS

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Ashish Desai (Ashish Desai's Linkedin) about how much of the on-premise can work in Cloud, what the online world is saying versus the reality of what businesses are experiencing.

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Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)

Guest Twitter: Ashish Desai (@ashishlogmaster)

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions

(00:00) Intro
(05:50) Ashish Desai's Professional Background
(06:21) Academic Freedom and no firewall
(07:12) What are the roles and responsibilities of an AWS cloud security architect?
(09:27) Difference between managing permissions between onpremise vs Cloud service provider
(13:02) Running Windows 2003 on AWS EC2 Bare Metal
(13:28) Running Old Virtual Servers on AWS
(14:13) Cloud is secure by default
(14:54) CI/CD with Github and Terraform is not common
(15:28) Do people use CI/CD?
(15:37) Traditional on-premise staff is your new cloud engineer
(16:50) Business are not fully advanced
(17:47) Failed Kubernetes Deployment in production example
(18:45) Managed and Bare Metal Kubernetes can only maintain 1 replica
(19:10) What is 1 replica in Kubernetes?
(20:36) Problem with stateful app running on Kubernetes
(21:35) Change Management in Cloud
(21:57) Deployment phases in Cloud
(22:34) Why was ServiceNow required?
(24:39) Why ServiceNow couldn't keep up?
(26:33) Native Solutions bypass Change Management
(28:43) Role of Security Architect in a New Cloud World
(29:53) DevExperience is holding Cloud Adoption success
(32:08) CyberProfessionals to know atleast 1 language to be succesful
(32:27) Do Architect need to know how to code in Enterprise context?
(33:24) Knowing Code to understand the lay of the land
(35:22) Has the Architecture Frameworks changed in the Cloud world?
(37:15) What other skillsets outside of coding is required to be successful in Cloud
(39:54) Should we care about being Cloud agnostic?
(40:41) Architecture for Operational side of Cloud Security?
(43:51) Practical things for advancing Cloud skills?
(48:36) Can anyone come out of uni and become a Cloud Security Architect
(50:32) Resources for education on Cloud security architects
(51:36) Fun Section

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