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GitHub Enterprise Cloud for Federal and DoD Software Projects - Part 1: Source Code and CUI

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GitHub Enterprise Cloud for Federal and DoD Software Projects - Part 1: Source Code and CUI

Most of our source code does not have a "military or space application", is not CUI, and therefore it is perfectly acceptable to use GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) for storing source code for Federal and DoD software projects.

lsvpc: Command Line Listing For Your AWS VPCs

lsvpc: Command Line Listing For Your AWS VPCs

lsvpc is a command line utility written in Go that makes concurrent requests to more than a dozen EC2 SDK methods, stitching together the information it receives into a terse, hierarchical structure.

AWS Backup for EC2 instances defined by IAC (Terraform)

AWS Backup for EC2 instances defined by IAC (Terraform)

How do we recover an instance, but still maintain the ability to manage the resource with Terraform?

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Stigian Consulting Enables Compass Lexecon to Provide World-Leading Economics Research and Consulting Services

Stigian Consulting today announced that it has enabled Compass Lexecon to provide world-leading economics research and consulting services to its clients.These environments leverage a variety of AWS services to facilitate access to analytics tools and technologies.

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Simplifying AWS Security Group Management with Terraform and CSV

AWS Security Groups act as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. When you have a large number of rules, managing them can become complex and error-prone. This blog post introduces a method to simplify this process using Terraform and CSV files.

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Threats in AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become very powerful, scalable, and easy to use, which is a dangerous combination for aggressive cyber operations.

What is Generative AI

What is Generative AI

In the field of generative artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms like ChatGPT are used to make new content. AI is a type of machine learning that lets computers learn from examples, like putting things into groups.

State of Quantum Computing - Summer 2023

State of Quantum Computing - Summer 2023

There is much discussion in advanced breakthroughs in computing lately and quantum computing (QC) has been a topic of interest. This article will go through the latest QC advances and consider how well it performs on real world problems.

AWS SSM Parameter Setting Strategy in Terraform

AWS SSM Parameter Setting Strategy in Terraform

We use AWS SSM parameters to store specifics of our deployed infrastructure, and to share those specifics between terraform projects deployed in an environment.

Add .gitattributes To Your IaC Repos

Add .gitattributes To Your IaC Repos

Adding a .gitattributes file to your git repo can easily let WIndows and other users collaborate without newline problems.

AWS ImageBuilder Strangeness

AWS ImageBuilder Strangeness

AWS ImageBuilder default pipeline sometimes changes instance types, leading to strangeness.

Using Terraform locals to minimize repetition

Using Terraform locals to minimize repetition

Locals tags can be used to minimize code repetition in terraform.