Som Chatterjee

Published in Towards AWS

·May 31, 2021

My learnings as a TPM at AWS

In this piece, I share my learnings with the hope that this will be useful for aspiring candidates to know what we expect from them. — I am a Technical Program Manager within AWS Commerce Platform. This team is responsible for building billing models, payments services, and cost and usage services that our customers use. Given the type and volume of data we deal with, we have an inviolable responsibility to not eff-up and do better…

AWS

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Apr 22, 2020

No Compression Algorithm For Learning

Nuggets of AWS that I continue to find — As the title suggests, I will continue to update this as a diary 28-Apr-2020 #4: For RDS, Read replicas are created with asynchronous replication. Multi-AZ database copies are created with synchronous replication. #5: For MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL you can create read replicas of read replica. #6: You can create a…

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Apr 18, 2020

The Security Onion of AWS

syn-Propanethial-S-oxide (yes, I have copied that from Wikipedia) that affects the ability of bad actors — I could have said layered security or defense in depth or blast radius containment, but I am fancy — and I like making things sound different. Hence this title. And a very subtle subtitle. An application without a use case Please note that the example application stack used in this write up, is exactly that —…

Defense In Depth

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Apr 17, 2020

Steps to Build a Cloud Fluency Program

When it is important to build fluency beyond traditional IT roles — The cloud has created a paradigm shift in how IT applications are developed and delivered to enable businesses. This shift affects every person within an organization, from IT, to business, sales, marketing, finance, and HR. Organizations that recognize this learning need and start building cloud fluency as an intentional effort…

Cloud Training

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Apr 12, 2020

The Fine World of AWS Idxxxxty and Access Management

#2: IAM Roles — I started writing about this series early in the week of Apr 5, 2020. The first one in the series dealt with Authentication, Users, and Federation. This piece, for IAM Roles. Recap: During federated authentication (cool kids say AuthN), IAM Roles do not play any role in authentication. The IAM…

Aws Iam

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The fine world of AWS Idxxxxty and Access Management

Apr 8, 2020

The Fine World of AWS Idxxxxty and Access Management

Making Identity Easy from 190never-before — #1: Authentication, Users, and Federation — If you are like me (I assume most people are not), you would have some hiccups with the concepts of identity and access management. For me, as a developer who started with VB 6.0 and then later with ASP.NET, a major portion of identity and access management was limited to…

Aws Iam

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Mar 6, 2020

Programming using AWS .NET SDK

#1: “Hello World!” in the world of Visual Studio for MacOS [using AWS SDK] — Level: 100–150 (Beginner) I am using Visual Studio Community 2019 for Mac OS. Don’t ask me why! And at the time of writing this, AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio are not supported on Visual Studio on Mac. Additionally, the runtime I have to use is…

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