Hi, I'm Danny, founder of Towards the Cloud. We help fast-growing companies solve their most expensive AWS challenges, from out-of-control costs and security compliance to slow development. All so they can focus on shipping their product.
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We eliminate AWS complexity so you ship faster, spend less, and stay compliant.
Our managed AWS service gives you three things: a production-grade AWS CDK Landing Zone with built-in compliance controls, proactive monitoring that stops cost waste and security drift, and senior AWS expertise that speeds up your team's delivery.
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โก See the symptoms of a missing AWS foundation and how we solve them
AWS starts simple. Then you scale: production and staging blur together, resources multiply without owners, IAM policies accumulate exceptions, security findings pile up in backlogs, and the bill climbs month after month.
Those are symptoms of a missing AWS foundation. Without one, your developers spend more time fixing problems than shipping features.
We provide that foundation and own it entirely, so your team focuses on shipping, not firefighting.
1. We Provision a Secure AWS CDK Landing Zone That Accelerates Compliance
- Multi-account architecture with security controls and compliance guardrails from day one
- Scores 100% on the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and 96% on AWS Foundational Security Best Practices
- Those benchmarks map straight to SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls, cutting months from your compliance timeline
2. We Monitor Proactively to Stop Cost Waste and Security Drift
- Quarterly cost reviews catch unattached volumes, oversized instances, and orphaned resources before they compound. AWS spend drops 20-30% on average, with outliers hitting 60+%
- Continuous security monitoring across all accounts catches misconfigurations immediately. You get alerts while issues are still fixable, not after they're breaches
3. We Provide Senior AWS Expertise That Speeds Up Delivery
- Your developers get production-ready IaC templates for common patterns: multi-AZ applications, event-driven architectures, secure data pipelines. What takes weeks of research ships in hours
- Architecture guidance on VPC design, IAM policies, disaster recovery, and observability from engineers who've solved these problems at enterprise scale
"We achieved a perfect security score in days, not months." Galen Simmons, CEO of Accolade (Y Combinator startup)
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