{"id":2,"date":"2026-09-25T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-34-205-75-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-27T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:04:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I&#8217;m <strong>Balraj Dahiya<\/strong>, a Cloud Security Architect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I design and secure cloud environments on AWS, with a focus on making systems secure by default: layered networks, least-privilege access, encryption everywhere, and infrastructure defined as code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog is where I share what I learn along the way: practical architecture patterns, the trade-offs behind design decisions, and real lessons from my own setups, including the time my own firewall blocked me from publishing a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you&#8217;ll find here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>AWS architecture:<\/strong> secure, scalable designs explained step by step<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cloud security:<\/strong> network design, IAM, WAF tuning and threat modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Infrastructure as Code:<\/strong> Terraform patterns and secure delivery pipelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let&#8217;s connect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m always happy to talk cloud security. You can find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/balrajdahiya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Balraj Dahiya, a Cloud Security Architect. I design and secure cloud environments on AWS, with a focus on making systems secure by default: layered networks, least-privilege access, encryption everywhere, and infrastructure defined as code. This blog is where I share what I learn along the way: practical architecture patterns, the trade-offs behind design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.securecloudengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}