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Cloud platform best practices for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Cloudflare. Covers Zero Trust architecture, IAM patterns, EKS/AKS/GKE configurations, serverless patterns, and multi-cloud strategies. Use when working with cloud infrastructure, AWS services, Azure resources, GCP projects, Cloudflare Workers, or when asking about cloud architecture and deployment.
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# Cloud Platforms
## Core Principles
1. **Zero Trust**: Never trust, always verify
2. **Least Privilege**: Minimum necessary permissions
3. **Defense in Depth**: Multiple layers of security
4. **Infrastructure as Code**: All infrastructure defined in code
5. **Observability**: Comprehensive logging, metrics, and tracing
## Platform Selection
| Use Case | Recommended |
|----------|-------------|
| Enterprise, broad services | AWS |
| Microsoft ecosystem | Azure |
| Data/ML workloads | GCP |
| Edge/CDN, simple serverless | Cloudflare |
## AWS Quick Reference
### IAM Best Practices
```hcl
# EKS Pod Identity (Recommended over IRSA)
resource "aws_eks_pod_identity_association" "app" {
cluster_name = aws_eks_cluster.main.name
namespace = "default"
service_account = "app"
role_arn = aws_iam_role.app_pod_identity.arn
}
```
### VPC Pattern
```hcl
# Private subnets only - Zero Trust
resource "aws_subnet" "private" {
count = 3
vpc_id = aws_vpc.main.id
cidr_block = "10.16.${count.index + 1}.0/24"
availability_zone = data.aws_availability_zones.available.names[count.index]
tags = {
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d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
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