Senior boutique AWS practice

Cloud-native AWS foundations, ready for production AI.

Northkeep modernizes your systems into a cloud-native AWS foundation your business can rely on - and takes AI to production on it. Every deliverable signed by a Golden Jacket principal architect.

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The problem

Most estates were moved to the cloud, not built for it - and most enterprise GenAI never reaches production.

The blockers are the same: architecture, resilience, and the data foundation underneath. Northkeep closes that gap in the right order - a cloud-native foundation the business can rely on first, production AI on top of it.

Expanding into the EU from the US? A residency- and regulation-ready AWS foundation is exactly what Northkeep builds. The readiness assessment is the fastest way in.

The offers

Productized, senior-built engagements.

Start with a review, move to a core engagement, sustain with a retainer. Every offer is concrete: scope, outcome, and one next step.

Entry reviews

Credential-led, paid, low friction. The place to start.

Entry review

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Modernization and AI Readiness Assessment

European businesses running lifted-and-shifted or legacy estates that need reliability, lower run cost, and a foundation production AI can actually run on.

Scope: Current-state review of the estate (architecture, resilience, cost, data), gap analysis against a cloud-native and AI-ready target state, and a prioritized modernization roadmap with costs.
Outcome: A decision-ready, costed modernization blueprint you can act on or hand to your team.

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Entry review

Serverless Excellence Review

Teams on AWS serverless who want a senior architecture review against the Well-Architected Framework.

Scope: Workload review across the Well-Architected pillars, risk-ranked findings, and a remediation plan.
Outcome: A risk-ranked remediation plan, prioritized by impact, that your team can execute.

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Entry review

Sovereign Cloud Readiness Assessment

EU organizations, or US and Gulf organizations entering the EU, putting production AI or regulated workloads on AWS and needing a residency- and regulation-ready foundation.

Scope: Current-state review, data-residency and sovereignty gap analysis against the relevant frameworks, target-state blueprint, and a prioritized roadmap. Delivered entirely from inside the EU, by EU residents, under EU jurisdiction.
Outcome: A decision-ready, costed blueprint you can act on or hand to your team.

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Core architecture

Modernization, production AI, and regulated resilience.

Core architecture

Cloud-Native Modernization

Organizations whose cloud estate was migrated, not modernized - or whose systems still hold the business back.

Scope: Target-state cloud-native architecture (serverless and event-driven where it earns its place), resilience and continuity by design, the data foundation production AI needs, and a phased modernization plan executed with the client's team under principal review.
Outcome: A cloud-native AWS foundation with lower run cost and higher resilience, operated by your own team, ready to carry production AI.

Discuss your modernization

Core architecture

Production AI Architecture

Organizations with a GenAI pilot that has to reach governed production on AWS.

Scope: Target-state architecture on Amazon Bedrock (agents, guardrails, agent identity and access, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation and observability), build-versus-buy decisions, and a governance model built to hold up under scrutiny.
Outcome: A production architecture and delivery plan that closes the pilot-to-production gap, designed to be operated by your own team.

Discuss your AI architecture

Core architecture

EU Cloud Resilience and Exit Strategy

Regulated EU organizations facing DORA, the EU Data Act, or NIS2 obligations on their cloud estate.

Scope: ICT concentration-risk analysis, cloud exit and portability architecture, resilience design, and the target-state changes needed to satisfy the relevant obligations. Architecture and design; formal audit and attestation are scoped out and referred.
Outcome: A resilience and exit-strategy architecture, evidenced and documented, that stands up to a regulator's questions.

Discuss your resilience posture

Retainer

Senior architecture authority, ongoing.

Retainer

Fractional Principal Architect

Teams that need ongoing senior architecture authority without a full-time hire.

Scope: A set number of days per month as embedded principal architect - design authority, reviews, decisions, and direction, working alongside your engineers.
Outcome: Senior architecture judgment on tap, one accountable principal.

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Proof

Credentials you can check.

Zero: Failed AWS exams. Every active AWS certification held, Golden Jacket achieved.
3: CTO roles taken to exit, one a profitable trade sale.
~20: Years architecting cloud and software systems.

Every active AWS certification

Production AI at multi-billion-dollar enterprise scale, anonymized by industry and size band. AWS Partner Network member, EU-based, serving EU, US, and Gulf.

Domain command

DORA
NIS2
EU AI Act
EU Data Act
AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Partner

AWS Partner Network Member

How it works

Assess, architect, sustain.

One senior architect throughout. The path from a paid review to a production-ready foundation, and optional ongoing authority after.

Assess

A paid readiness review. We map the current state, find the gaps against a cloud-native, AI-ready target state, and hand back a costed, decision-ready blueprint.

Architect

The core engagement. Cloud-native modernization, production AI, or regulated resilience - target-state architecture designed to be operated by your own team.

Sustain

Optional. A fractional principal architect keeps senior design authority on tap as the estate and the regulations evolve.

The difference

Principal-led, senior-accountable.

The principal who scopes the work leads the work and is accountable for it, end to end. No junior work billed at senior rates, and nothing ships without principal review. Senior judgment plus AI leverage, not bodies billed at senior rates.

Independent, not part of any consultancy group: AWS-deep and vendor-independent. Northkeep's advice serves your outcome, not a group's revenue targets - which is what makes exit strategies and cost cuts credible.
EU-resident delivery: All delivery happens inside the EU, by EU residents, under EU jurisdiction. The standard we architect for is the standard we operate under.
Built for your team to operate: Systems designed to be run by your own engineers, documented down to the decisions behind them.

Start here

Start with a readiness assessment.

Tell us the problem and who you are. You will speak to the principal, not a sales layer.

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