DevOps

Migrating to the Cloud? Here’s Why 9 Out of 10 Clients Stick with TO THE NEW for DevOps

Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
28-Aug-2025

DevOps

Stop Paying Extra: How We Helped an Ad-Tech Company Cut AWS RDS Costs by Upgrading from MySQL 5.7

Introduction If you're still running MySQL 5.7 on Amazon RDS, it's time to act. AWS started charging for Extended Support in March 2024. By mid-2025, that charge is no longer theoretical, and paying for it is kind of unacceptable. You're likely already paying for it, and the cost will double by the end of this year. [caption...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
26-Aug-2025

JS

Optimizing Cold Starts in a Node.js Lambda: What the Docs Don’t Tell You

If you've ever worked on AWS Lambda, you will know that one word that buzzes every developer is - cold start. It's like Thanos, an inevitable tax that you pay when Lambda spins up a fresh execution environment to handle a request. In Node.js, while the AWS documentation covers the basics (provisioned concurrency, minimizing package...

by Nikhil Rawat
Tag: aws
25-Aug-2025

DevOps

Upgrading the Terraform AWS Provider: Painful, But Worth It

Introduction If you're using Terraform for IAAC with AWS, you might have probably declared the provider like this in your code: provider "aws" {  region = "us-west-2" } [caption id="attachment_73692" align="aligncenter" width="625"] terraform + aws[/caption] And it worked. So you left it alone. Then one day, someone tries to use...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
20-Aug-2025

DevOps

Mastering Terraform State: Real Incidents, Lessons, and Best Practices

Introduction: What is Terraform State? Terraform doesn’t just apply your infrastructure code and forget about it. It keeps track of what’s been created — every EC2 instance, every S3 bucket, every RDS database, every security group, and many more. That data is stored in a file called terraform.tfstate. This state file is how...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: aws
08-Aug-2025

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