AWS consulting for B2B SaaS

Secure, audit-ready AWS without a platform team.

We find the security gaps, cost waste, and account sprawl in your AWS setup, fix them, and hand back infrastructure as code your team owns. Your engineers get back to building the product.

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30 minutes, no commitment. You leave with a clear next step.

From $495, fixed

The smallest assessment scans your account for the quick wins that pay it back.

Report in 1 to 2 weeks

Findings checked by hand, ranked by risk, with the fix for each one.

Fixes as code you own

We ship the fixes as pull requests to your repo. No lock-in.

Security gapsCost wasteAccount sprawl

The findings and the organization are samples. The bill is a client's, from a recent engagement.

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How cloud sprawl starts

How AWS environments drift over time

AWS rarely breaks all at once. It drifts. Environments blur together, nobody is sure who owns what, and cost and security issues pile up in places your team no longer has time to check.

The numbers beside each stage are illustrative: a typical single-account setup at a growing SaaS company.

Day 1

The honeymoon phase

One AWS account. Fast deployments. Console clicks feel harmless because the environment still feels easy to hold in one person's head.

Accounts
1
Open findings
0
Monthly bill
$400
Month 6 to year 1

The silent sprawl

More engineers join, new environments appear, and ownership blurs. IAM exceptions accumulate, spend creeps upward, and production starts depending on tribal knowledge.

Accounts
1, shared by all environments
Open findings
60+
Monthly bill
$3K
Year 1 and beyond

The complexity wall

Security findings pile up, audits stall, and every change feels risky because nobody trusts the platform. Your team spends its time patching around the foundation instead of building on it.

Accounts
A handful, no guardrails
Open findings
200+
Monthly bill
$12K

What waiting costs

  • An enterprise deal stalls on the security questionnaire nobody can answer with confidence.
  • The SOC 2 audit slips a quarter while engineers chase findings instead of shipping.
  • The bill keeps climbing, and nobody owns it.

The fix

You can stop the drift early.

A fixed-price assessment shows whether you're dealing with a few isolated issues or a foundation problem, so you fix the right layer first.

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Danny Steenman, Founder & Cloud Engineer at Towards The Cloud
Who does the work

One senior AWS engineer, from the first call to the last commit.

I'm Danny Steenman. Before founding Towards The Cloud in 2023, I spent a decade leading large-scale AWS migrations as a Principal Cloud Consultant, and saw the same costly patterns across dozens of enterprises: IAM layered with exceptions, bills climbing faster than the product, and engineers firefighting instead of shipping.

There is no account manager or junior hand-off: the engineer on your intro call is the one who reviews your accounts, writes the code, and answers your questions afterwards.

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How it works

From first call to fixes in your repo

The intro call is free. Assessments have a fixed price from $495; the scope depends on the size and complexity of your AWS environment, and we confirm the price on the call.

  1. 30 minutes, free

    Intro call

    We talk through your AWS setup and what's slowing the team down, recommend the assessment that fits, and confirm its fixed price.

    • Recommended assessment
    • Fixed price confirmed
    • No commitment
  2. Fixed price, from $495

    Assessment

    We review your environment, confirm by hand which findings are real risks, and write up what is wrong and what to fix first.

    • Findings ranked by business impact
    • Evidence for every finding
  3. Walkthrough call

    Report, roadmap and fixes

    We walk your team through every finding and hand over a roadmap your engineers can implement without us, or we ship the fixes as pull requests.

    • Written report
    • Walkthrough with your team
    • Prioritized roadmap

Start with the assessment that matches what's hurting

Compare all six assessments

  • AWS Security Review

    For when IAM has piled up exceptions, logging is patchy, or an audit is coming up.

  • AWS Cost Optimization

    For when the AWS bill keeps climbing and nobody has time to hunt for idle and orphaned resources.

  • AWS Well-Architected Review

    For a broad review of a workload across all six pillars, not one focused area.

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After the assessment, you choose

Fix it yourself

Work through the roadmap with your own team, with the fix steps for every finding in hand.

See a sample report

Have us fix the findings

Ask for an optional fixed-price quote and we implement the fixes, highest risk first.

See how pricing works

Rebuild the foundation

When the root cause is structural, the AWS CDK Landing Zone replaces the foundation in about a week.

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When patches stop working

When the foundation is the problem, we rebuild it from scratch

Isolated findings can be fixed in place. When the account structure, security controls, or platform ownership is the root cause, patches stop working. Our Landing Zone replaces the foundation in about a week, then monitoring and ongoing engineering keep it healthy.

AWS Landing Zone

When the assessment shows structural problems, we rebuild the account model, guardrails, and automation as code on a clean AWS foundation.

Built for CIS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS controls

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Testimonials

What teams say after we ship

Five-star Google reviews from founders and engineers who hired us for landing zones, security reviews, and cost cleanup.

over 1 year ago
I had a fantastic experience with the service provided by Towards the Cloud. I had previously built my infrastructure using the AWS GUI and CloudFormation, but it had become outdated and difficult to maintain over time. Danny expertly evaluated my existing stack and completely redesigned it following AWS best practices. He implemented a modern multi-account architecture with separate environments for production and development, which has greatly improved our security posture and deployment workflow. Danny built everything using CDK in TypeScript and set up a GitHub CI/CD pipeline. The entire infrastructure is now defined as code, making it incredibly simple to maintain. Everything stays up-to-date automatically through the pipeline, eliminating the manual work and potential errors from my previous setup. I highly recommend Towards the Cloud for anyone looking to migrate or modernize their AWS environment!
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Rene Molenaar
5 reviews on Google
over 1 year ago
Before Towards the Cloud, we received a variety of proposals to provision our AWS landing zone. Danny’s solution and AWS expertise stood out with comprehensive accelerators, documentation, and clearly articulated design principles. We achieved a perfect security score in days, not months, and TTC’s ongoing support has been invaluable.
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Galen Simmons
3 reviews on Google
Before you book

Questions before
the first call

Do we need to know which assessment to book?

No. Start with the free intro call. We use that conversation to understand your AWS setup, requirements, constraints, and goals, then recommend the assessment that fits best.

What happens on the intro call?

We talk through your AWS environment, what needs to improve, and what is driving it: an audit, a growing bill, a migration, or a setup that has outgrown itself. You leave with a recommended assessment and its fixed price, or a clear answer that you don't need one yet.

Is the assessment fixed price?

Yes. Once we agree on the assessment scope, the assessment itself is fixed price. Larger environments, multi-account setups, or broader reviews may need a larger scope, but you know the assessment price before paid work starts.

What does the assessment actually deliver?

You get findings specific to your AWS environment, ranked by business impact, with a remediation roadmap your team can use. Depending on the assessment, that can include security gaps, cost-saving actions, migration risks, Well-Architected issues, or foundation improvements.

How much access do you need to our AWS accounts?

For an assessment, a time-limited IAM role with only the permissions the review needs. All activity is logged in your own CloudTrail, and we remove the access as soon as the assessment ends. No long-lived credentials are ever created.

What if Danny is unavailable?

Everything we deliver lives in your own repository and documentation: the report, the roadmap and any code we ship. Your team, or any AWS engineer, can pick it up without us. If you want us to fix the findings, you get a fixed-price quote after the assessment, and taking it is optional.

When does the Landing Zone make sense?

It makes sense when the assessment shows repeated foundation problems: account sprawl, unclear IAM boundaries, inconsistent logging, manual security controls, or platform work that keeps pulling developers away from building the product. Learn more about the AWS Landing Zone.

Are we locked in after the assessment?

No. You can stop after the assessment, implement the roadmap yourself, ask us to fix specific findings, or scope a larger foundation project. The assessment does not force the next step.

First conversation

Book a free intro call

In 30 minutes we look at your AWS setup and recommend the right next step. If an assessment isn't the right fit, we'll tell you.

You talk to Danny Steenman, the engineer who does the work. Pick a time below and he confirms it by email.

  • Free, no commitment
  • Fixed price before any paid work
  • 100% confidential