Rost CAMP

AWS certification and cloud-architecture interview coaching from a Golden Jacket architect.

1:1 coaching, mentoring and fixed-scope AWS advisory — evenings and weekends, from Amsterdam.

14 active AWS certifications — AWS Golden Jacket

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  • Former AWS APN Ambassador
  • AWS Community Builder, AI Engineering
  • Speaker, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
  • 14 years in engineering, architecture and team leadership

For engineers

One-to-one, in English or Ukrainian. Price includes VAT.

Coaching

Evenings & weekends. English or Ukrainian.

1:1 AWS certification prep and cloud-architecture interview practice.

  • Track A: preparation for any AWS certification
  • Track B: timed architecture and system-design mocks
  • Single sessions, or 3- and 6-session packs
  • Written notes and a scorecard after every session

from €90 incl. VAT

Coaching in detail

Mentoring

6 places. Cancel any time.

Monthly guidance for engineers moving into architecture and AI roles.

  • Two 45-minute calls a month
  • Async questions, answered the next business evening
  • One artefact reviewed a month

€180 / month incl. VAT

Mentoring in detail

For companies on AWS

Fixed-scope work, done asynchronously or in evenings, so it never needs your team in a room.

AWS Savings Implementation Sprint

€5,400 + 15% of savings

4–6 weeks.

A fixed-length sprint to reduce your AWS costs: Savings Plans, rightsizing, idle resources and the architecture that drives the bill. I implement, not just recommend.

Doing it yourself first? Which AWS Savings Plans to buy

What's included
  • €5,400 discovery fee
  • Read-only access first, then scoped change access
  • 15% of realized savings over the following 12 months
  • Savings measured on your actual AWS bill

Independent AWS Review

from €4,000

Due diligence & compliance.

A signed third-party opinion on your AWS environment for investors, boards and auditors.

What's included
  • Signed written opinion
  • Mapped to the regime that matters: NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2 or DORA

Async AWS advisory retainer

€1,800 / month

Minimum 3 months. Capped at 2 clients.

Ongoing architecture and cost advice for your AWS estate, delivered asynchronously. You get a private channel with a next-business-evening reply, one 60-min call per week in an evening or early-morning slot, and a written monthly review of architecture and spend. No daytime on-call, no incident response.

What's included
  • A private channel, answered the next business evening
  • One 60-minute call a week, evening or early morning
  • A written monthly review of architecture and spend
  • No daytime on-call and no incident response

Excl. VAT. EU businesses with a valid VAT number are invoiced reverse-charge.

The four AWS cost packages, and which one fits which situation, are also on the FinOps consulting page.

How an engagement starts

  1. Step 1 of 3

    20-minute scoping call

    Your AWS spend, the problem, and what a good outcome looks like.

  2. Step 2 of 3

    A fixed number

    You get a fixed price and scope for the package that fits. If none fits, I say so.

  3. Step 3 of 3

    Work starts

    Access is agreed up front and scoped to the work.

What I don't take on

  • I do not work with my employer, with any company in its group, or with their competitors, suppliers and business partners.
  • I use no employer information, tools, equipment or materials, and I work only outside my working hours. All benchmarks come from public sources and your own data.
  • I do not coach or mentor colleagues from my employer or its group, and I do not coach candidates for roles there or discuss any employer's internal hiring process.
  • I do not coach or mentor employees of my employer's competitors.
  • I do not use or share any material from my employer.

Questions I get asked

Coaching and mentoring

Should I choose coaching or mentoring?

Coaching is for a goal with a date on it: an AWS exam or an interview loop. You book single sessions or a pack and stop when you are ready. Mentoring is monthly, for the longer move into a solutions-architect or AI-engineering role: two calls a month and async questions in between.

When are you available?

Evenings and weekends. Coaching and mentoring calls run on weekday evenings between 18:30 and 21:30 CET, or at weekends. Assessment work is asynchronous, so it does not need your team in a room. For an EDP negotiation your team leads the sessions with AWS, and I brief and debrief around them in evening slots. I do not offer weekday daytime slots and I do not take incident or on-call work.

Company work

How can I reduce my AWS costs?

Most savings come from a few places: covering steady usage with Savings Plans or Reserved Instances, rightsizing over-provisioned instances and databases, removing idle resources, and fixing storage and data transfer patterns. The Savings Implementation Sprint works through these on your actual bill and implements the changes.

Read: AWS cost optimization, a practical guide

What does an AWS FinOps consultant do?

A FinOps consultant connects engineering decisions to the AWS bill. That means finding where the money goes, agreeing what to change with engineering and finance, managing commitments like Savings Plans, and keeping costs from creeping back. I also implement the changes rather than handing over a report.

What is the AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)?

The EDP, now folded into AWS private pricing (a Private Pricing Addendum, or PPA), is a contract where you commit to a level of AWS spend over several years in exchange for a discount. It is typically worth negotiating once AWS spend is above roughly €1M a year. Preparation matters: commitment level, term, credits and growth assumptions all shape the deal.

Read: AWS EDP and PPA, the Enterprise Discount Program guide

How does the “15% of savings” fee work?

The sprint has a fixed €5,400 discovery fee. On top of that, the fee is 15% of the savings actually realized over the following 12 months, measured on your AWS bill. If the bill does not go down, you only pay the discovery fee.

What access do you need to our AWS account?

Read-only access first, to review billing and usage. Change access comes later, scoped to the specific work we agreed on. Access is agreed up front before any work starts.

Do you work with companies outside Amsterdam?

Yes. I work with teams across the Netherlands and the EU. The scoping call and most of the work are remote.

An independent practice, run by the person doing the work

Rost CAMP is the independent practice of Rostyslav Myronenko, a solutions architect with 14 years across enterprise engineering, cloud and AI. I hold 14 active AWS certifications (the AWS Golden Jacket), was an AWS APN Ambassador at EPAM, am an AWS Community Builder in AI Engineering, and spoke at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024. I have designed AWS architectures for a $2B-revenue retailer, built cloud-enablement programmes at EPAM, and teach solution architecture and generative AI at SET University (Kyiv) and with Sigma Software University. I work by day as a solutions architect elsewhere; Rost CAMP is independent of my employer and is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by them. Evenings and weekends I offer 1:1 AWS certification and cloud-architecture interview coaching, mentoring, and fixed-scope AWS advisory.

Rostyslav Myronenko, independent AWS architect and certification coach in Amsterdam

Rostyslav Myronenko

Independent AWS Architect & Certification Coach

Amsterdam

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14 active AWS certifications
Recognised with the AWS Golden Jacket. Verifiable on Credly.
Former AWS APN Ambassador
Held at EPAM. The status belongs to an AWS partner's programme, so it ended when I left.
AWS Community Builder, AI Engineering
In the AI Engineering category.
Speaker, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
Paris, March 2024.
14 years in engineering, architecture and leadership
Including AWS architectures for a $2B-revenue retailer and cloud-enablement programmes at EPAM.
Teaching
Solution architecture and generative AI at SET University (Kyiv) and with Sigma Software University.
Based in Amsterdam
Independent Dutch practice (zzp), registered with the KvK. Clients across the Netherlands and the EU.

Start with a conversation.

Tell me what you are preparing for, or what your AWS estate needs to prove. You leave knowing which of these fits, or that none does.

Or email rost@rostcamp.com