Chris Madden
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Chris Madden
@dutchiechris.bsky.social
Can you move an object storage bucket from between locations online with one command? With Google Cloud Storage you can! Check my latest blog for all the info: www.beginswithdata.com/2025/10/14/g... #GoogleCloud #GCS #FinOps
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Someone, anyone, maybe @quinnypig.com? For egress does AWS use proper GiB or the marketing-friendly GB? I need to know the exact unit of measure for my impending fiscal distress. #aws #FinOps
October 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AWS EU customers can "request reduced data transfer rates for eligible use cases under the European Data Act". Anyone have a rate card? www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/b... @quinnypig.com
Big clouds scramble over EU Data Act and data transfers
Updated: Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked
www.theregister.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Do you have TBs, PBs, or even EBs of GCS? At scale management just got easier. Check out how in a recent blog I co-authored about Google Cloud's Storage Insights feature!

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August 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Chris Madden
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Excited to see Google Cloud Backup and Recovery expand support for immutable and indelible backup vaults to all disk types. Great protection to ensure your backups can't be meddled with! #googlecloud

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Backup vaults add support for disk backup and multi-region | Google Cloud Blog
Google Cloud Backup and DR service backup vaults offer immutability and indelibility to Persistent Disk (PD) and Hyperdisk disks, in multiple regions.
cloud.google.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
AWS's recent changes to defaults in their S3 tools broke GCS compatibility. Facing errors? My latest post shows you the fix. #GCS #CloudStorage www.beginswithdata.com/2025/05/14/a...
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Chris Madden
I feel like living in the USA is like being part of a really stupid fraternity.
March 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Enhance the security of your GCS buckets by implementing IP-based access control for Internet and VPC Network clients using Bucket IP filtering. Read how in my blog: www.beginswithdata.com/2024/12/02/g... #GCP #GoogleCloud
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM