As I prepare for the spring 2025 semester using the latest macBook Pro M4 series, I had to make some adjustments to virtualize operating systems that I use for various courses. While I use Parallel...

AI Chatbot With AI everywhere, I wanted to learn more about how AI works, large language models (LLMs), and prompt engineering. I wanted to go beyond just using OpenAI ChatGPT. I started with buil...

Running on websites and forums on AWS It’s hard to believe that I have been using Amazon Web Services for over 12 years to handle personal and small websites and a large active non-profit forum re...

Cloud security has always been a challenge for moving resources to the cloud. Particularly with constant negligence in leaving S3 buckets and data open to the public. With massive amounts of data a...

Overview Recently, I came across a need to finally use Lambda in AWS. I was looking to query an Oracle database and export the Oracle table to a CSV file. While using Python I realized the Oracle ...

VirtualBox Installation Running virtualization on your laptop/desktop or home lab provides an easy way to learn and test various operating systems, including AWS EC2 instances. Also, it can serve ...

Whether you are looking to improve your AWS security posture or checking compliance against cybersecurity frameworks, Prowler is an amazing open source tool developed by Toni de la Fuente. Toni has...

Storing protected data such as HIPAA in the cloud requires extra attention to ensure the data is not compromised. Using the NIST 800-171 framework provides guidance for controls that can help facil...

I recently had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop at the annual Cloud Forum hosted by Cornell. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss whether to bring your networking to the cloud, meanin...

With the tremendous growth and adoption of cloud services over the past decade, are data centers still relevant, especially in higher education? The answer isn’t simple, and one that institutions w...