Introduction As more organizations move their workloads to the cloud, traditional security models are no longer enough. Modern cloud environments need security that can keep up with changing infrastructure and workloads. The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) stands out by bringing enterprise-level security controls to virtualized and cloud-native environments. What Is Palo Alto […]
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. At To The New, while working […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – Isn’t it amazing? You will be surprised to know it was not created manually by draw.io or any other […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: the majority of AI projects fail to […]
