I used Azure Update Manager to centralize OS patching across Azure VMs and Azure Arc-enabled servers. I set up assessment, recurring maintenance schedules, Azure Policy onboarding, reporting, and staged rollouts. The Azure Update Manager getting-started experience. Portal screens, pricing, supported regions, and service behavior change. The screenshots show my environment at the time. Check current Microsoft docs before building a production process from these exact settings. ...

I tested two common AWS access control patterns. First I used an EC2 tag to let a dev user manage a dev instance but not production. Then I attached an IAM role to an EC2 instance and limited it to one S3 bucket. The screenshots are from an older AWS console. Some buttons and layouts look different now. The identity and least privilege ideas haven’t changed. The IAM pieces I used I worked with four IAM building blocks: ...