Principal-led AWS practice

Cloud-native AWS foundations, proven under European rules.

Northkeep modernizes AWS estates into cloud-native foundations that stand up to a supervisor - and takes AI to production on them. Every deliverable is signed by a named principal architect who is accountable for it.

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Svetlozar Kondakov, principal architect at Northkeep

Svetlozar Kondakov, principal architect. Roughly twenty years architecting cloud systems, three CTO roles, one ending in a profitable trade sale. He scopes, leads, and signs every engagement.

The problem

Most estates were moved to the cloud, not built for it - and now a regulator wants the architecture in writing.

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

Cloud infrastructure under European rules - for European enterprises, and for international companies entering the EU. Selling into the EU from the US?

Where engagements start

Two ways in.

Each starts with a fixed-scope, paid assessment that ends in a signed evidence pack, and leads to a core engagement if you want one. You keep the evidence either way.

Sovereignty and EU resilience

Start here

Cloud infrastructure that answers to European rules.

DORA, NIS2, and the EU Data Act moved cloud architecture from an engineering question to a supervised one. Northkeep designs the residency, resilience, and exit architecture that answers it - and produces the evidence a supervisor, auditor, or board will accept.

Start with: Sovereign Cloud Readiness Assessment - Not a slide deck - an evidence pack a supervisor, auditor, or board will accept: findings, gaps, target-state architecture, and a costed roadmap, signed by a named accountable principal architect.
Leads to: EU Cloud Resilience and Exit Strategy - A resilience and exit-strategy architecture, evidenced and documented, that stands up to a supervisor's questions - signed by a named accountable principal architect.

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Modernization and production AI

Estates that were moved to the cloud, not built for it.

One assessment, two possible engagements: modernization into a cloud-native AWS foundation, and production AI on top of it once the foundation can carry it. Most estates need the first before the second is worth starting.

Start with: Modernization and AI Readiness Assessment
Then: Cloud-Native Modernization
And / or: Production AI Architecture

See the scope

Both paths continue into an optional - and recommended - retainer, so the posture and the estate stay owned after the engagement ends. The full ladder is on Services.

Production AI

Pilots do not fail on the model.

They fail on the data foundation underneath, the evaluation nobody agreed in advance, the governance surface that was never designed, and the unanswered question of where the data goes. All four are architecture, which is why a better model does not unblock the launch.

The EU AI Act reads more usefully as an architecture brief than a legal one: most of what it asks for is decided at design time and is expensive to retrofit. Northkeep builds AI that produces its own evidence as it runs.

Production AI under European rules

16 of 16: The client's documented failing searches, every one returning the correct file at rank 1 in a human-graded benchmark of the redesigned agentic search on Bedrock.
Under 9 months: Pilot to production for a complete generative-AI SaaS on Bedrock, now live with its first customers onboarded.
200M+ / week: Requests on a customer-facing recommendation API at multi-billion-dollar retail scale.

Proof

Credentials you can check.

All: Active AWS certifications held - the Golden Jacket, AWS's recognition for holding every AWS certification at once, all current.
3: CTO roles, one ending in 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. All work is delivered from inside the EU, by EU residents, under EU jurisdiction.

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 accountability 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 signed evidence pack with a costed roadmap.

Architect

The core engagement, phase-gated. Sovereignty and resilience, cloud-native modernization, or production AI - target-state architecture designed to be operated by your own team.

Sustain

Optional, and recommended. A retainer keeps the regulatory and security posture current, or the AWS estate architecturally owned, or both - with a named principal signing. Not a software retainer.

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. What you buy is a named person's judgment and signature, not a staffed team.

AWS-deep, with zero AWS revenue share: Northkeep is independent and takes no share of your AWS spend. The most credible advisor on reducing AWS dependency is the one who knows exactly where the lock-in lives - and has no incentive to keep you there.
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. On one 300-site regulated estate the delivery team was granted no access at all - the client's own engineers executed every migration.

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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