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Building Liberra in public. The story, the tech, the lessons.
Why I Built Liberra
A forty five minute SSH struggle, twenty five servers built by hand in one shift, and the idea that followed.
Why Is My Azure Bill So High? How to Find Out in Ten Minutes
A VM you shut down from inside Windows is still billing you for compute. Microsoft says so in their own docs. And that is usually not even the biggest line on your invoice.
Azure Security Audit Checklist: What to Check in Your Subscription
Most Azure security problems are not clever attacks. They are defaults nobody went back to look at, and a couple of rules that quietly never fire.
How to Find Unused Azure Resources That Are Quietly Billing You
Azure already did most of this work for you and put the answer somewhere nobody opens. Here is what is in there, and the parts it still misses.
You Just Inherited an Azure Subscription. What to Do First
Nobody hands over a runbook. Here is the order I would go in, and the one setting that stops a bad afternoon becoming a bad quarter.
How to Manage Multiple Azure Subscriptions Without Losing Track
The portal shows you one subscription at a time, and the free tool that shows you all of them will hand you a partial answer without saying so.
Why Is My Google Cloud Bill So High? How to Find Out
An IP address doing nothing costs more than one doing its job, and a single query can cost more than the machine that ran it. Both are working as designed.
How to Find Idle Google Cloud Resources Still Billing You
Google already built the tool, runs it every day, and tells you what it found. It just will not tell you the numbers it used to decide.
Google Cloud Security Checklist: What to Check in Your Project
A new project ships with SSH open to the whole internet and a service account that may hold Editor on everything. Both are documented. Neither is obvious.
You Just Inherited a Google Cloud Project. What to Do First
There is a one line command that stops anyone deleting the whole thing, and a thirty day window that means the worst case is survivable. Neither is on the dashboard.
Google Cloud for People Who Learned AWS First
The renamed things are easy. The four places where the model is genuinely different are what cost you an afternoon, and one of them is good news.
How to Manage AWS and Azure Without a Cloud Team
Running two clouds is harder than running two of the same cloud, and the reason is not the tooling. It is that the same word means different things in each one.
How to Manage Multiple Cloud Accounts Without Losing Track
Every cloud draws the boundary in a different place and every console shows you one side of it at a time. The dangerous part is the answer that is quietly incomplete.
Cursor for Cloud: Someone Had to Build It for AWS
The Cursor for AWS. Same idea, never done for cloud, until now.
How to Manage AWS When You Never Meant to Be the Cloud Person
Nobody hands you a manual. Just an account, and the expectation that you already know what's in it.
Is There a ChatGPT for AWS?
Yes, if that's the easiest way to picture it. Here's what's actually different.
Why Is My AWS Bill So High? How to Actually Find Out
I let a second AWS account run for six months before I checked what was inside it. Here's what I found, and how you can check yours in a few minutes.
Your AWS Account Has Security Holes. Here's How to Find Them Fast
Open ports, public buckets, missing MFA, versioning switched off. Most AWS accounts have at least one of these sitting quietly.
Managing Cloud Infrastructure Shouldn't Take 15 Browser Tabs
There's always one person on the team who carries everything. Here's why we built Liberra to be that person for you.
Deploy to AWS Through a Conversation: No Pipeline, No YAML
It checked what was already true before it built anything, then did the job in four minutes.
Why Most AI Cloud Tools Start From Zero Every Time
There's a difference between an AI that can access your cloud and one that actually knows it.
How to Audit Your AWS Costs (Without a FinOps Team)
A step-by-step way to read your bill and know exactly where the money is going, no FinOps team required.
AWS Security Audit Checklist: What to Check in Your Account
IAM, network, S3, logging, and databases. The checks that actually matter, and how to run them without the noise.
How to Find Unused AWS Resources That Are Silently Billing You
Where they hide in AWS, and how to check your account for them in a few minutes.