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MarkdownSimplified CTO Role: Tech Strategy Align technology with business goals Drive innovation and digital transformation Leadership C-suite decision-making Manage tech department and budget Architecture High-level system design Key technology decisions External Relations Vendor selection and management Industry networking Risk & Security Cybersecurity oversight Compliance management
1- Workloads on Public Clouds
2- Security: MFAs, Root Accounts, Service Accounts, Password Rotations
3- Security: Audit, Notificaitons, Alerts
4- Security: Password Policies
5- Security: Preventive detection
6- Disaster Recovery: Detect reliability issues (partial loss, failover)
7- Disaster Recovery: - RTO/RPO Objectives * Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
8- Application: Logging, Observability
9- Cloud Services Logging
10- Network Optimizations/Seggregations: Edge Services, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables
11- Network Traffic: SGs, NACLs, WAF, PrivateLink VPC
12- Security: Common Vulnerabilities, Security Exposures
13- Security: OS Patches
14- Security: Encryption at Rest (EC2, RDS, S3) / Ecnryption at Flight (public sources into workload)
15- Security: Storage of sensitive data
16- Billing: Service Limits / Usage / Alerts
17- BIlling: Cost reduction (savings, reserved instances)
18- High Availability (Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, ELB)
19- AutoScaling (on demand - react to changes, planned)
20- Backups
21- SLA: Span workloads through AZs or Regions
22- SLA: Self Healing (failover, automation, redeploy, rebuild)
23- Sizing of Compute Resources
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25## Soft Skills
26- Pragamatic: straightforward, matter-of-fact, or realistic approach to a situation or problem.
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28## Related Roles
29- COO (Chief Operating Officer): Key member of the senior executive team, and plays a critical role in the success of the organization by ensuring that the company is running smoothly and effectively, and that the operational teams are motivated and aligned with the company's goals.
30Created on 7/14/2022