For any IT professional it is very important to be alerted or informed on any issue with the Infrastructure he or she is supporting. Same is true for Cloud! Though it is very rare, outages or planned maintenance do occur in Azure environment. Today’s blog is about setting up a process to alert teams with…
AWS IAM User access review
As an Administrator you provide access to AWS environment to developers and other business users to enable them doing their work . However, it is always recommended to go back and review IAM(Identity and Access Management) entities, such as, users, roles, policies etc. to make sure, they are set up with right set of permissions….
Integrate Azure Security Center with Event Hub
Recently Microsoft announced capabilities to export Azure Security Center Alerts and Recommendations to Azure Event Hub , Log Analytics Workspace or integrate it to a 3rd party SIEM(Security Information and Event Management) system in your environment. In this post, I will share the process of exporting Security Center alerts to Azure Event Hub. Before we…
Add Tags to Azure Subscription
Tags help to logically organize Azure resources in the environment. It is one of the fundamental principal of good cloud Governance. Each tag consist of a Key and a Value pair. For example, a Key could be “Environment” and corresponding Value is “Development” , or it could be “Application” as Key and “Payroll” as Value….
Automate Azure billing report in Excel
In my previous post I talked about generating AWS Billing data for last 12 months in Excel file and also showed you how to create a chart on Excel showing cost comparison all using Powershell. To me this is a nice and quick way to generate such report and email to stake holders automatically. I…
Create EC2 Windows AMI with Packer and Powershell
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an AWS resource we use to deploy Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instances. Ideally, an AMI contains the Operating System(Windows, Linux etc.) and a list of customization made on it to meet specific requirements. It helps to quickly bootstrap one or more EC2 instances with similar configuration. As per Amazon…
Azure DevOps Audit report in Excel
In my last few posts I have discussed about Microsoft Azure DevOps Users, Groups, License audit etc. Periodically, we run those audits to perform access review and license true up. Refer to my previous posts here: Azure DevOps Users and Groups Report in Excel Azure DevOps basic User and License Audit In this post, we…
Automate AWS billing report in Excel
I have posted several articles in past on how to generate billing reports for different AWS services and provided scripts to get those reports in csv format. Those reports are good and handy to quickly refer in discussions. However, if you want to present a nice AWS Cloud expense report to management you would need…
List Azure AD Roles and Role Assignments using Powershell
In my previous posts I discussed about listing Azure AD users and groups and provided Powershell scripts to generate those quickly : List all Azure AD Users List all Azure AD Groups In this post I will discuss about Azure AD Roles and Administrators assigned to those roles. As per Microsoft document – Using Azure…
Create EC2 Linux AMI with Packer and Powershell
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an AWS resource we use to deploy Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instances. Ideally, an AMI contains the Operating System(Windows, Linux etc.) and a list of customization made on it to meet specific requirements. It helps to quickly bootstrap one or more EC2 instances with similar configuration. As per Amazon…