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Ali-Funk

Learning in Public. Transitioning into Cloud Security. Currently wrestling with AWS CCP and the Imposter Syndrome. I am here sharing what I learn so you don't have to make the same mistakes as I did.

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Aspiring Cloud Security Architect

The PCPJack Worm and the Death of Cloud Isolation

The PCPJack Worm and the Death of Cloud Isolation

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The Silent Backdoor in Enterprise Security: Why Unmanaged OAuth Tokens Are the New High-Risk Vector

The Silent Backdoor in Enterprise Security: Why Unmanaged OAuth Tokens Are the New High-Risk Vector

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The Abstraction of Cloud Engineering: How AI Agents Are Redefining Enterprise Architecture

The Abstraction of Cloud Engineering: How AI Agents Are Redefining Enterprise Architecture

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Lets say my Manager wants Multi-Cloud (AWS + GCP) in 6 months here’s how I would respond and why

Lets say my Manager wants Multi-Cloud (AWS + GCP) in 6 months here’s how I would respond and why

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The AI Rebound Effect and the Transition to Systems Architecture

The AI Rebound Effect and the Transition to Systems Architecture

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The European Commission AWS Breach and the Failure of Paper Security

The European Commission AWS Breach and the Failure of Paper Security

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The End of the Demo Phase: Securing AI Infrastructure in the Enterprise

The End of the Demo Phase: Securing AI Infrastructure in the Enterprise

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Zero Trust Architecture for AI Runtime Execution

Zero Trust Architecture for AI Runtime Execution

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Why End-to-End Encryption Cannot Protect Infrastructure Metadata

Why End-to-End Encryption Cannot Protect Infrastructure Metadata

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Architecting Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents

Architecting Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents

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Why Bare Metal Nostalgia is Dead and Cloud Governance is the New Sovereignty

Why Bare Metal Nostalgia is Dead and Cloud Governance is the New Sovereignty

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The Trillion Dollar Smokescreen and why Replacing Engineers with Algorithms is a Structural Failure

The Trillion Dollar Smokescreen and why Replacing Engineers with Algorithms is a Structural Failure

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The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty: Why Vendor Swapping is Not a Compliance Strategy

The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty: Why Vendor Swapping is Not a Compliance Strategy

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When Agents Attack: The Security Nightmare of Self Discovering APIs

When Agents Attack: The Security Nightmare of Self Discovering APIs

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Building a Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Strategy with Terraform and AWS Route 53

Building a Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Strategy with Terraform and AWS Route 53

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Sovereign Cloud: Owning Your Keys in the Era of the CLOUD Act

Sovereign Cloud: Owning Your Keys in the Era of the CLOUD Act

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The "Vibecoding" Trap: Why AI Tools Like Kiro Are a Security Force Multiplier

The "Vibecoding" Trap: Why AI Tools Like Kiro Are a Security Force Multiplier

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Why My Real Work Starts on Friday Evening: From Classroom Theory to AWS Sandbox

Why My Real Work Starts on Friday Evening: From Classroom Theory to AWS Sandbox

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How I Built a Serverless AI Image Analyzer in 40 Minutes (Free Tier)

How I Built a Serverless AI Image Analyzer in 40 Minutes (Free Tier)

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The Virtual Mentor: Building Experience Without the Job Title

The Virtual Mentor: Building Experience Without the Job Title

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The Bouncer and the Connector: AWS Guardrails vs. MCP Explained

The Bouncer and the Connector: AWS Guardrails vs. MCP Explained

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The "Virtual Air Gap": Building Fort Knox in AWS

The "Virtual Air Gap": Building Fort Knox in AWS

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"Air Gap" for the Cloud: Why the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Changes Everything

"Air Gap" for the Cloud: Why the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Changes Everything

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Beyond Discord: How I would Architect Community Infrastructure on AWS

Beyond Discord: How I would Architect Community Infrastructure on AWS

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Why "Ownership" is the Best Certification: Building Infrastructure for an AWS Legend

Why "Ownership" is the Best Certification: Building Infrastructure for an AWS Legend

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**More Than a Bootcamp: Why I Chose the German 'Umschulung' Path into Tech**

**More Than a Bootcamp: Why I Chose the German 'Umschulung' Path into Tech**

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LLMs are like Humans - They make mistakes. Here is how we limit them with Guardrails

LLMs are like Humans - They make mistakes. Here is how we limit them with Guardrails

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Why I rescheduled my AWS exam today

Why I rescheduled my AWS exam today

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