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Enforcing Google CloudSQL Backups

Posted on September 19, 2024May 8, 2025 by Kate Gawron
Enforcing Google CloudSQL Backups

Have you ever experienced that heart-stopping moment when you realize you’ve accidentally deleted important data from your database or messily dropped your production system instead of the dev environment? And to add to the nightmare, you discover that backups weren’t turned on? It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar for Continue Reading

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Posted In Cloud SQL, Databases, GCP

Finding out folder size of an S3 bucket using the AWS Console

Posted on June 21, 2022May 7, 2025 by Kate Gawron
Finding out folder size of an S3 bucket using the AWS Console

So often in life we find a really easy solution to something much later than would be ideal. Same happened today with trying to clear out an S3 bucket that was costing us a lot of money in storage. In this blog, I guide you through how to quickly obtain Continue Reading

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Creating RDS Databases using CloudFormation or CDK? There’s a catch…

Posted on June 16, 2022May 6, 2025 by Kate Gawron

So you’ve decided to have some control and governance over the provisioning of RDS database in your accounts. The days of the Wild West are OVER! Security rules are going to be enforced, same as backup policies. Time to automate this stuff and run it all through Service Catalog. YES!!!! Continue Reading

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