DevOps

DevOps Is Not a One-Time Setup: First-Year Lessons from the Field

Introduction When teams start on their DevOps journey, the excitement is real. CI/CD pipelines, faster deployments, cloud-native tools, automation everywhere - it feels like everything is finally going to be smooth. But in reality, the first year of DevOps is rarely smooth. It’s messy, experimental, and full of learning. [caption...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
14-Jan-2026

DevOps

Boosting ECS Costs Savings: Moving to Graviton with Fargate Spot

Introduction Reducing cloud costs is always the top priority and biggest headache for Devops Engineers, especially when using managed AWS services like ECS Fargate. For one of our Ad-Tech clients at TO THE NEW, we were already utilising Fargate Spot to reduce the ECS bill significantly. But we found that we could save even more money if...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
14-Jan-2026

DevOps

From Hot Brokers to S3: Optimizing Kafka Storage with Tiered Storage

Introduction If you’ve ever worked with Kafka, you know the problem: data grows fast. Every click, impression, or event adds up, and before you know it, your Kafka broker's disks are full. Disk is not very cheap on AWS, and storing everything on expensive broker storage is costly, and scaling up to handle growth feels like throwing...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
14-Jan-2026

MSP

Enhancing the Power of Amazon Q: Integrating Open-Source MCP Servers and Creating Seamless AWS Architectural Diagrams

Introduction In this blog, we will explore how to integrate an open-source MCP server with Amazon Q and unlock its enhanced capabilities, creating seamless architecture diagrams generation. Take a look at this architectural diagram below - [caption id="attachment_76797" align="alignnone" width="946"] Diagram generated by Amazon Q +...

by Rayan Ahmed
Tag: aws
19-Nov-2025

DevOps

Building Smarter AWS CloudFront Distributions: Tips, Tricks, and Configurations That Actually Help

When I first set up CloudFront, I just wanted it to work. I clicked through the wizard, pointed it at an S3 bucket, and called it a day. It worked—until the bill showed up. That’s when I realized CloudFront is one of those services where the defaults aren’t your friend. If you’ve been running CloudFront for a while, you...

by Vedansh Singhal
Tag: aws
06-Oct-2025

MSP

The Role of To The New Managed Services in Cloud Cost Optimization

Is Your Cloud a Cost Center or a Growth Engine? The Role of TTN Managed Services in Cloud Cost Optimization For software-driven businesses, the cloud was originally a fast fix—a place for storage, hosting, or scalable computing power on demand. As the digital landscape grew more complex, so did cloud bills and headaches. An important...

09-Sep-2025

MSP

Accessing S3 Bucket Objects Through CDN Using Cognito User Pool Auth and lambda edge

In this blog, I will walk you through the steps to secure access to S3 objects using Amazon CloudFront (CDN) integrated with Amazon Cognito authentication. The goal is to move away from easily shareable pre-signed URLs and instead enforce user in cognito user pool based, authenticated access. For example, a team may need to access...

by Shubham Rawat
Tag: aws
09-Sep-2025

DevOps

Leadership in the Age of AI + AWS

Artificial Intelligence has managed to move from research labs to boardroom conversations. Today, every technology leader is under pressure to “do AI.” Customers want personalized experiences, competitors are embedding AI into their offerings, and investors expect a clear AI strategy in every roadmap. But here’s the hard truth:...

by Vijit Vidya
Tag: aws
05-Sep-2025

DevOps

EC2 Image Builder in Action: From AMI Creation to Cross-Account Sharing

Introduction EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service that automates creating, updating, and deploying your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). EC2 Image Builder creates a pipeline for Linux or Windows Server images for use with Amazon EC2. The pipeline manages all stages, including image creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and...

by Kushagra Bansal
Tag: aws
05-Sep-2025

MSP

Domain Migration – A Step-by-Step Guide

Overview Domain migration to AWS may seem very complicated at first, but to change the domain registrar is very straight forward. AWS Service Route 53 provides highly available and scalable DNS services, seamless integration with AWS workloads, and advanced features like traffic routing, health checks, and monitoring. In this blog, I...

05-Sep-2025

JS

What is Serverless and How JavaScript Fits Into It

Introduction Serverless. A term that often confuses at first glance. Because servers are still there. You just don’t touch them. You don’t set them up, scale them, or patch them. That’s someone else’s job now — the cloud provider’s. And the most common example of this approach is AWS Lambda. For many developers, Lambda is...

by Kunwar Anas Ali
Tag: aws
04-Sep-2025

DevOps

Switching to Valkey on ElastiCache: Cost Savings Without Compromise

Every modern application today has one thing in common: it relies on speed. Users don’t wait around, systems can’t tolerate bottlenecks, and a couple hundred milliseconds can make the difference between a smooth experience and an abandoned page. And at the center of that performance equation, more often than not, is an in-memory data...

by Harsh Vardhan
Tag: aws
02-Sep-2025