The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook - A Podcast by Michael Diogo

In networked systems, a rate limiter acts like a traffic controller, managing how often a user or service can make requests. In the world of HTTP APIs, it sets boundaries on how many requests are allowed within a given time frame. Once that limit is reached, any additional requests are automatically blocked. Think of it like setting fair-use rules: a user might only be able to post twice per second, create up to ten accounts in a d...

Every growing cloud environment reaches a moment where manual operations no longer scale. Patching becomes risky, access needs tightening, and visibility starts to fade.

In this episode, we step into the Cloud Ops command center and explore AWS Systems Manager the service built to bring order, automation, and security to complex infrastructures. From managing fleets of instances to automating routine tasks and enforcing operational ...

Mastering Amazon S3 is a technical episode for developers, data engineers, IT administrators, and even beginners. We dived deep into S3’s architecture and features, explaining how to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient storage solutions. We explore Amazon S3’s industry-leading scalability, availability, security, and performance through practical examples and expert interviews. Whether you’re managing data lakes, websites, b...

It’s 2:00 a.m. your phone buzzes. Alerts are flooding in. The production database is down, your main region is unresponsive, and customers are already posting on social media. Panic? Not if you’ve prepared.

In this gripping episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, Disaster Recovery in the Cloud : where milliseconds matter and preparation separates chaos from control.

We’ll start with the basics: What exactly counts as a disaster...

Incidents happen.They just do. As our systems grow in scale and complexity, failures are inevitable.  Incidents are also a learning opportunity.

The best way to work through what happened during an incident and capture any lessons learned is by conducting an incident postmortem, also known as a post-incident review. 

An incident postmortem brings people together to discuss the details of an incident: why it happened, its impact, what...

The farther users are from your servers, the slower their experience with your application. In this episode we explored how caching and CDNs bridge that gap bringing data closer to users, cutting latency, and boosting reliability. We dived into caching strategies, edge delivery, and real-world practices that help developers overcome distance, scale globally, and deliver blazing-fast performance.

Need a team to migrate workloads ...

Downtime, outages, and unexpected crises can derail any business. This episode, From Chaos to Control: The Incident Management dives into the strategies, tools, and real-world stories that help teams respond faster, reduce impact, and learn from every incident. Insights from IT leaders, SREs, and operations experts on how to turn high-pressure moments into opportunities for resilience, growth, and continuous improvement.

Need a team...

Struggling with slow, overloaded databases as your application scales? Database Sharding: Breaking Up Databases (Without Breaking Them) offers clear insights into how sharding can solve performance bottlenecks, boost scalability, and keep systems resilient. This episode breaks down concepts, real-world strategies, and best practices so you can confidently design, implement, and manage sharded databases without the headaches.

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In the business world today, organizations face constant pressure to stay compliant, manage risks, and make smarter decisions. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Blueprint Strategies for Cloud Success dives deep into Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC), a unified approach that breaks down silos and brings IT, business, and leadership together under one coordinated model.

Whether you are an IT leader, compliance...

In today’s cloud-driven world, monitoring alone is no longer enough to ensure the health, performance, and security of modern applications and infrastructure. Observability goes beyond simply detecting issues, it empowers IT teams to understand why problems occur, pinpoint root causes faster, and take proactive steps to prevent future incidents. By leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and events supported by tools like AWS CloudWatch ...

AWS is built from the ground up to be the most secure and resilient global cloud infrastructure, making it an ideal platform for developing, migrating, and managing applications and workloads at any scale. With a comprehensive suite of Security, Identity, and Compliance services, AWS enables you to embed robust security controls to safeguard your application architecture helping you protect sensitive data, manage user access, detec...

In this episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, we unpack the full landscape of compute services in AWS from traditional virtual machines to serverless functions, containers, and edge computing.

We discussed about:

Amazon EC2: Flexible VMs for any workload

AWS Lambda: Serverless functions that scale effortlessly

ECS, EKS & Fargate: Container services with the level of control you need

Trainium & Inferentia: Specialized comput...

🎙️ Episode 12 is here!

Title: Exploring Database Services in AWS The Right Tool for the Right Job

In this episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, we dive into the wide range of database offerings from AWS from traditional relational databases to purpose-built solutions for modern applications.

Tune in to learn about:

Amazon RDS: Simplified relational database management

Amazon DynamoDB: Fully managed NoSQL powerhouse

Amazon Redshift: ...

In this episode, we dive deep into the storage services you can access in AWS, from File Storage Services to Object Storage Services.

• AWS Backup: A fully managed, policy-based service that centralizes and automates data protection across various AWS services, simplifying backup management at scale.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS): Persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances, automatically replicated...

In this episode, we discussed the Linux Operating System, which is widely used in Cloud Computing. Some basic commands to start your Linux adventure, commands like:

ls - list items in the current directory

cd - change directory

pwd - show current directory path

mkdir - create a directory

touch - create a file

rm - remove a file

rmdir - remve a directory

cat - displays a file in read state

head - is used to display the first part of a file

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In this episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, we zoom in on one of the most fundamental AWS services: Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is EC2, and why it’s a cornerstone of cloud computing
• Powerful features of EC2 like scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and elasticity
• The different types of EC2 instances and how to select the right one
• Real-world examples and how EC2 helps teams move fast an...

This episode emphasizes a multi-layered approach to AWS account security and management, focusing on:

• Strong Authentication and User Management: Moving beyond the root user for daily operations.
• Cost Monitoring and Control: Proactively managing expenses in the cloud.
• Resource Organization and Identification: Utilizing metadata for visibility and control.
• Activity Logging and Auditing: Gaining insights into account actions for secur...

In this episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, we take a crucial step back from launching cloud resources like virtual machines and focus on the core infrastructure concepts you need to understand first, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud platform.

🔍 What you’ll learn in this episode:

• 🌍 What are AWS Regions, and why does your choice matter?

• 🏢 What are Availability Zones (AZs) and Local Zones, and how do they suppor...

What is SaaS?

Software as a service (SaaS) is application software hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection by way of a web browser, mobile app or thin client.

Why is SaaS important?

SaaS is important because it gives businesses access to powerful software that would previously have been too expensive or energy-intensive to run from on-premises environments. The SaaS vendor manages the hardware, the software tools, and...