Let me share with you my mnemonic phrase to help myself remember the 6 AWS Well-Architect Framework Pillars, plus an architecture design to build your automated Compliance Gap Engine.

Our brains count on their fingers, not in thousandths of a dollar.  Instead of memorising $0.0018/GB, remember "$1 buys you X units": my reciprocal FinOps cheatsheet for key AWS services.

A rookie Path Traversal oversight in a 2000s PHP script - flagged by an automated NSA scan - became the catalyst for a 25-year career built on Zero Trust, robust input sanitisation, and rigorous Cloud Architecture.  Modern security resilience stems from eliminating today’s...read more >>

How an early 2000s security slip-up and a surprise email from the NSA shaped my lifelong Zero Trust approach to engineering, from simple PHP scripts to complex AWS Cloud architectures.