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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Google Cloud IAM

Google Cloud IAM defines cloud identities, resources, and their relationships. It specifies who (users, groups, or service accounts) has what kind of access (roles) to what cloud resources in the GCP resource hierarchy. Key features of Google Cloud IAM include the following:

  • GCP resource hierarchy: Google Cloud IAM leverages a resource hierarchy (organization, folder, project, and resource) to inherit permissions from higher levels. This allows you to manage access control more efficiently by applying policies at the appropriate level in the hierarchy.
  • Fine-grained access control with roles and permissions: Google Cloud IAM uses roles, which are a collection of permissions, to grant access to GCP resources. Google provides predefined roles (viewer, editor, and owner) as well as the ability to create custom roles tailored to your organization’s needs.
  • Identity federation: Google Cloud IAM supports identity federation, allowing you to integrate...
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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