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dannysteenman/README.md

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.

Book a free demo to see where you stand and what we'd fix first:

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โšก 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.

Here's what's included:

1. We Provision a Secure AWS CDK Landing Zone That Accelerates Compliance

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)

๐Ÿฅž My Tech Stack

๐Ÿ—๏ธ My Open Source Projects

AWS Cost Optimization & Automation

Tools and scripts to cut AWS costs and automate cloud operations.

๐Ÿ“‚ Projects โญ Stars ๐Ÿด Forks ๐Ÿšง Issues ๐Ÿ“ฌ Pull requests
CloudBurn Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS Toolbox Stars Forks Issues Pull requests

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Starter kits and examples to help you build on AWS with best practices.

๐Ÿ“‚ Projects โญ Stars ๐Ÿด Forks ๐Ÿšง Issues ๐Ÿ“ฌ Pull requests
AWS Terraform Starter Kit Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS CloudFormation Starter Kit Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS CDK Starter Kit Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS CDK Python Starter Kit Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS CDK Examples Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
AWS CDK Diff PR Commenter Stars Forks Issues Pull requests
Terraform Plan PR Commenter Stars Forks Issues Pull requests

๐Ÿ“™ Latest Blog Posts

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๐Ÿ‘พ Socials

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  1. towardsthecloud/cloudburn towardsthecloud/cloudburn Public

    Open-source policy engine that blocks bad AWS spending patterns before they ship and remediates what's already burning.

    TypeScript 1.8k 370

  2. towardsthecloud/aws-toolbox towardsthecloud/aws-toolbox Public

    Blazing fast aws cli tool that helps you automate routine tasks on AWS Cloud.

    Go 5

  3. towardsthecloud/aws-cdk-landing-zone-roadmap towardsthecloud/aws-cdk-landing-zone-roadmap Public

    This is the public roadmap for the custom-built AWS CDK Landing Zone solution provided by Towards the Cloud.

    12

  4. towardsthecloud/aws-cdk-starter-kit towardsthecloud/aws-cdk-starter-kit Public template

    Production-ready AWS CDK TypeScript starter kit with secure OIDC authentication, automated CI/CD, and branch-based deployments. Deploy infrastructure to AWS in minutes with projen-powered configuraโ€ฆ

    TypeScript 95 12