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Short, practical articles on AWS, Azure, and GCP — free to read, no account needed.

AWS

IAM Roles vs. Users: The Enterprise Pattern You Should Actually Use

Long-lived IAM users with access keys are the exception, not the default, in a well-run AWS environment. Here's the pattern enterprises actually use.

Azure

Azure Resource Groups and Subscriptions, Explained Properly

Subscriptions are the billing/security boundary. Resource groups are the lifecycle boundary. Mixing those two up is where most Azure environments go wrong.

GCP

Getting Started with GCP: Projects, Billing Accounts, and IAM

GCP's project model looks similar to AWS accounts and Azure subscriptions at first glance - but the billing/project split is genuinely different, and worth understanding before you provision anything.