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10 AWS consultants
These ten AWS consultants design, migrate, secure and optimize AWS environments for clients as independent consultants, consultancy founders and architects at consulting firms. A reader can learn from them how to plan an AWS migration or build-out, choose an architecture and keep security and cloud costs under control.
Professionals to explore
01—10Carl Snyman
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder CEO Principal AWS Solutions Architect · Formation Cloud Solutions
Co-Founder CEO Principal AWS Solutions Architect at Formation Cloud Solutions and Principal AWS Solutions Architect at NTT DATA Middle East and Africa, both since 2024. Former Head of AWS Principal AWS Solutions Architect at Dimension Data (2021–2024) and Co-Founder CEO Principal AWS Solutions Architect at Acacia Cloud Solutions (Acquired by Dimension Data) (2017–2021). The profile says he started and sold an AWS Partner business and then headed up the AWS Practice at the buyer.
Cris Merritt
LinkedInExperience: Independent Cloud Architect · merritt.cloud
Independent Cloud Architect at merritt.cloud since 2017 and Instructor at DevelopIntelligence, a Pluralsight Company since 2021. The profile says he drives client cloud projects from design to deployment and optimizes existing infrastructure for performance, security and cost, working hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, CDK, CloudFormation and Terraform. Former Cloud Architect at The Data Guild (2017–2019).
Gabriele Mittica
LinkedInExperience: CEO · Corley Cloud
CEO of Corley Cloud since 2012, a company the profile describes as specializing in cloud services, scalable architectures and cloud-native development. The profile lists him as a cloud computing architect with AWS who has worked with AWS since 2009, an author and trainer of cloud patterns and the author of the book Cloud Essentials.
Maciek Goździk
LinkedInExperience: AWS Consultant Architect, Co-Founder · Tehma Cloud
AWS Consultant Architect, Co-Founder at Tehma Cloud since 2024 and Cloud Solutions Architect at Billennium since 2022; the profile also lists AWS Cloud Architect, Solutions Architect, DevOps, Cloud Consultant at NLabs.io from 2006 to present. Former AWS Cloud Engineer at Billennium (2018–2022). The profile says his recent focus is helping customers migrate to the cloud.
Mark Laszlo
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal Cloud Architect · ccX - Cloud and AI Consulting
Founder & Principal Cloud Architect at ccX - Cloud and AI Consulting since 2021, which the profile describes as a boutique AWS and AI consultancy serving enterprise clients, and Senior Cloud Architect AWS FinOps & Cost Optimization at Sogeti since 2026. Former Cloud Security Architect (AWS) at PwC Luxembourg (2023–2026) and AWS Architect at Waeg, an IBM Company (2021–2022).
Nico Herzhauser
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & Principal AWS Solutions Architect · OmniNovum GmbH
Co-Founder & Principal AWS Solutions Architect at OmniNovum GmbH since 2025. Former Senior Cloud Consultant AWS (2020–2023) and Solution Architect AWS (2018–2020) at T-Systems International, and Solution Architect (AWS) at Axians IT Solutions GmbH (2017–2018). The profile headline says he built 3 AWS partnerships and was lead migration architect on a 6,000-server migration.
Pravin Mishra
LinkedInExperience: AWS Azure Lead Engineer (self-employed) · The CloudAdvisory Oy
AWS Azure Lead Engineer (self-employed) at The CloudAdvisory Oy since 2023; the profile describes him as a DevOps, cloud, data and AI consultant helping companies accelerate cloud adoption, automate CI/CD and optimize AWS and Azure costs. Former AWS Finland Lead architect, AWS MAP Ambassador at Capgemini (2021–2023) and Senior Cloud Architect at Nordcloud, an IBM Company (2019–2021).
Sorin Flueras
LinkedInExperience: Founder & DevSecOps Consultant · Secure Stack Consulting S.R.L.
Founder & DevSecOps Consultant at Secure Stack Consulting S.R.L. since 2022; the profile says he helps AI and SaaS startups secure their AWS environments and pass security audits and customer reviews, and has built and hardened AWS for employers and growth-stage clients. Former Cloud Security Engineer at Atos (2020–2022) and Security & Compliance Administrator at IBM (2019–2020).
Stephen Wilding
LinkedInExperience: Founder · Hydras
Founder of Hydras since 2010. The profile says he works as an AWS solutions architect through his own consultancy, Hydras, designing, building and securing cloud-based systems, and that he also writes and produces online training courses covering AWS for A Cloud Guru. It says he has a passion for cloud computing, automation and security.
Zoran Pajeska
LinkedInExperience: Principal AWS Architect · Come to the Clouds Ltd.
Principal AWS Architect at Come to the Clouds Ltd. since 2021 and Principal AWS Architect and Head of Cloud at Kite Consult GmbH since 2022. Former Senior AWS Tech Lead at Kite Consult GmbH (2019–2022) and Cloud Architect at Nordcloud, an IBM Company (2017–2019). The profile says he provides clients with Platform/DevOps teams and lists delivered projects in healthcare, hospitals and finance.
Choose the right perspective
Match the consultant's focus to your need, for example migrating existing servers, security and compliance hardening, cost optimization or data and AI platforms on AWS. Ask how many projects like yours they have delivered and whether they stay involved to run the environment after launch.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you assess an existing environment and decide what to migrate to AWS, rebuild or retire?
- 02Which account structure, networking and security guardrails should be in place before workloads go live on AWS?
- 03How do you keep AWS costs predictable as usage grows, and what should a team review each month?
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