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. --Announcing Cloud Security Villains Project-- We are always looking to find creative ways to educate folks in Cloud Security and the Cloud Security Villains is part of this education pieces. Cloud Security Villains are coming, you can learn how to defeat them in this YouTube Playlist link Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan) Guest Twitter:   Ashish Desai (@ashishlogmaster) Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - Cloud Security News  - Cloud Security Academy 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