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Patrick

I'm a technologist and cloud architect living in the Bay Area, CA. I specialize in AWS and have a deep Microsoft background. PowerShell is my language of choice.

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Managing IAM Identities for People

Sep 29, 2020 6 min read

Understanding IAM security models is one of the most important aspects of effectively and safely managing AWS environments. Throughout my work consulting with various companies, I have noticed a trend that many organizations are managing the cloud i...

Using AWS Config to Control Costs 💰

Sep 23, 2020 4 min read

Config is one of my favorite services in AWS. When I think about Config, my mind usually goes more toward overall security & compliance of an AWS environment, but one underrated aspect of this tool is that this can also help control your AWS costs! ...

Using PowerShell to write Infrastructure-as-Code!

Sep 4, 2020 3 min read

As an AWS Solutions Architect working for at an APN partner, I frequently review workloads and customer environments who are still very new to AWS, and one thing I’ve found frequently is a lack of CloudWatch alarms, with most infrastructure also bein...