DevOps

Designing for efficiency: How thoughtful VPC architecture reduces AWS spend

Introduction At To The New, we work with all kinds of customers from fast-moving startups to huge enterprises, and one thing is always true: Nobody likes surprises on their AWS bill, nor Anyone likes downtime. When people think of saving money in AWS, they usually jump straight to EC2 instance rightsizing or removing idle resources....

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
18-Jul-2025

DevOps

Unseen Costs, Visible Impact: How Proactive ALB Management Drives Cloud Efficiency

Introduction Handling AWS costs is very important for cloud bill optimizations. One overlooked service that can significantly contribute to monthly expenses is Elastic Load Balancing. Our team, which works for a global advertising management platform client, a powerhouse in advertising and connected TVs, recently undertook a major step...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
11-Jul-2025

DevOps

Reclaiming Cloud Efficiency: Strategic Rightsizing for Business Impact

Introduction Cloud cost optimization is a vast and evolving discipline, but at its core, it starts with visibility. You can’t optimize what you can’t see. So, gaining granular insight into your cloud usage and billing is the basic foundation. You're not the only one who has ever thought, "This bill feels too high," after seeing your...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
10-Jul-2025

MSP

Understanding AWS WAF: A Comprehensive guide to protecting your web applications

Web application security has become an essential concern for businesses of all sizes in today’s digital age. The data and user privacy on your platform is badly hindered by cyberattacks like DDoS attack, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting (XSS). Therefore, to counter all of these threats in cloud technology, there are some...

by Shuja Rafiq
Tag: aws
19-Jun-2025

DevOps

Modern Terraform Practices: Removing Resources Safely from State

Introduction and Usecase There are times when we want Terraform to stop managing a resource, but don’t want to delete it from the infrastructure. In this brief blog, I'm going to discuss removing resources from Terraform configuration files while keeping them in real infrastructure. But why would you want to do this in the first...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
29-May-2025

DevOps

Terraform 1.5 Import Block: Eliminate Manual Imports and Streamline IaC

Introduction We know that sometimes the cloud infrastructure is already set up before we start using Terraform. Traditionally, if we wanted to import these resources into Terraform and control them, we had to run some manual import commands. It was a pain and made it tricky to keep things smooth when working in a collaborative...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
26-May-2025

Generative AI

Revolutionizing DevOps with Amazon Q: AI-Driven Development & Automation

Introduction A novel AI product from AWS, Amazon Q, is a generative AI conversant geared towards expediting productivity in software engineering and cloud services. Its wide-ranging AWS training makes it an expert on calls, fulfilling queries related to DevOps, automating suggestions and infrastructure, and assisting teams in building...

by Yash Khandelwal
Tag: aws
25-Mar-2025

MSP

Ensuring high availability: Testing AWS availability zone failover with Fault Injection Service (FIS)

Introduction In this blog, I have checked application availability when one of the availability zones is down. AWS has regional services where there are more than one data centers, which are known as availability zones, to ensure High availability and redundancy. For instance, we have three availability zones for the ap-south-1(Mumbai)...

by Umang Dakh
Tag: aws
27-Feb-2025

MSP

AWS EMR: Why Automated Hue Portal Setup & Hadoop Integration makes Data Analytics Easy

Introduction In this data-driven era, handling and processing larger volumes of information quickly becomes the need of the hour. Most of us are familiar with AWS elastic map reduce (emr) for processing and analytics. One of the EMR highlights was its lessening of the pain of setting up analytics tools like Hue, which might be...

by Shuja Rafiq
Tag: aws
25-Feb-2025

Drupal

How to Use IAM to Safeguard Your PHP Application on AWS

Introduction Securing your PHP application on AWS is critical to ensure that sensitive data is protected and your system remains reliable. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a powerful service that allows you to control access to your AWS resources. In this blog, we’ll focus on best practices for using IAM to safeguard your...

by Kartik Tandon
Tag: aws
09-Jan-2025

DevOps

Cost, Performance, and Sustainability: Why ARM is the Future of Cloud Innovation

Introduction The cloud computing market is going through rapid change and continuous improvement in terms of cost and performance. The Graviton processors manufactured by AWS utilize ARM architecture and are proving to be ground-breaking for cloud-based businesses. These Performance-Per-Watt metrics along with further enhancements will...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
08-Jan-2025

DevOps

Empowering Businesses with AWS: Practical Ways to Cut Cloud Costs

Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become one of the leading cloud computing platforms that provide businesses with a wide range of managed services and features. Although AWS offers unmatched scalability, performance, and security, it is essential to use its capabilities effectively to maximize cost savings. In this blog we'll...

by Vasu Gupta
Tag: aws
08-Oct-2024