BLUF: Learn Cloud using systems engineering approach and hack cloud with LLM.
Abstract
• Challenge: Cloud ecosystems are large and complex.
• Approach: Apply a systems engineering lifecycle: needs → requirements → architecture/design → implementation → integration → verification/operations.
• Scope: Azure-focused examples with provider comparisons.
• Use Cases: From home-lab to small-business rollouts; examine cost, scalability, and security tradeoffs.
• Hands-On: PwnedLabs lab for web-app/cloud attack paths, hardening, and validation under the shared responsibility model.
• LLM Integration: Use Codex-like assistants to accelerate recon, produce playbooks/tests, and summarize findings
• Takeaway: A practical, repeatable framework to understand cloud as a systems engineer and leverage LLMs to speed security testing and automation.