Cloud Projects

Objective

In IT342 - Cloud Administration, our projects simulated configuring a secure cloud application for a business. We were supposed to do this for the 3 major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and Google, but we were not assigned an AWS project during the course unfortunately.

Azure Project

Features used: virtual networks (VNets), network security groups (NSG), identity and access management (IAM), private endpoints, private DNS zones

GCP Project

Features used: buckets, virtual private clouds (VPC), compute engine (VM deployment), network security (firewall rules), autoscaling policies, health checks, BigQuery

Learning Outcomes

• Designed secure cloud networks using Azure VNets and GCP VPCs

• Implemented least-privilege access controls using IAM and firewall policies

• Secured cloud services using private endpoints, private DNS, and network segmentation

• Applied availability concepts such as autoscaling and health checks

• Implemented CIS Benchmarks across different cloud environments