You don’t have to hate your motherboard, or want a magic wand to solve all your computering problems because everyone is medicating with the cloud these days, but not every cloud platform is created equal. Much like security conference attendees each cloud has its own special sauce, and “idiosyncrasies”. Azure has a shadow twin no one likes to discuss, GCP hands out public IPs like it’s 1983 again, and AWS is praised as the golden child because they did their homework. While ranting about these quirks Cara and Andy plan on presenting some of the solutions that they have written to deal with a few of the more annoying issues that can rear their ugly heads when deploying in the cloud.