Danny Steenman dannysteenman

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 Landing Zone with built-in compliance controls, proactive monitoring that stops cost waste and security drift, and senior AWS expertise that accelerates your team's delivery.

Start with a free assessment to see where you stand and how our service can improve your AWS foundation:

⚡ See the symptoms of a missing AWS foundation and how we solve them

AWS starts simple. As you scale, technical debt compounds. Production and staging environments blur together. Resources multiply without clear ownership. IAM policies accumulate exceptions. Security findings pile up in backlogs. The AWS bill climbs month after month.

These are all symptoms of a missing AWS foundation. Without it, your developers spend more time fixing problems than shipping features that drive business growth.

We solve this by providing that foundation and owning it entirely, so your team focuses on shipping, not firefighting.

Here's what's included:

1. We Provision a Secure Landing Zone That Accelerates Compliance

Multi-account architecture with security controls and compliance guardrails from day one
Achieve 100% on CIS AWS Foundation Benchmark and 96% on AWS Foundational Security Best Practices
These benchmarks map directly to SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls, cutting months from your compliance timeline

2. We Monitor Proactively to Stop Cost Waste and Security Drift

Quarterly cost reviews identify unattached volumes, oversized instances, and orphaned resources. We clean up waste before it compounds, reducing your AWS spend by an average of 20-30%, with occasional outliers of 60+%.
Continuous security monitoring across all accounts catches misconfigurations and policy violations immediately. You get alerts while issues are still fixable, not after they're breaches.

3. We Provide Senior AWS Expertise That Accelerates Delivery

Your developers get access to production-ready IaC templates for common patterns: multi-az applications, event-driven architectures, secure data pipelines. What typically takes weeks of research and iteration ships in hours
Get solutions architecture guidance on VPC design, IAM policies, disaster recovery, observability and more. Your team makes faster decisions because we've already solved these problems for enterprises at scale

"We achieved a perfect security score in days, not months." — Galen Simmons, CEO, Accolade (Y Combinator Startup)

🥞 My Tech Stack

🏗️ My Open Source Projects

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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

📂 Projects	⭐ Stars	🍴 Forks	🚧 Issues	📬 Pull requests
AWS Terraform Starter Kit
AWS CloudFormation Starter Kit
AWS CDK Starter Kit
AWS CDK Python Starter Kit
AWS CDK Examples

VSCode Extensions & Snippets

Productivity tools and code snippets to accelerate AWS development in VSCode.

📂 Projects	⭐ Stars	🍴 Forks	🚧 Issues	📬 Pull requests
VSCode IAM Actions Snippets
VSCode IAM Service Principal Snippets
VSCode CDK Construct Snippets
VSCode CloudFormation Snippets
VSCode SAM Snippets
VSCode CDK Extension Pack
VSCode CloudFormation Extension Pack
VSCode Terraform Extension Pack