Thoughts on Indie AWS Consulting in 2025

Background I started my career in the glass industry as a SysAdmin, specifically in a glass factory crafting fragrance bottles and bottles for pharmaceutical industries in the north of France. Since then, I’ve focused on IT security and cloud computing. After many full-time positions for Microsoft, French Logistic Railroad, and IT Consulting parties, I decided to run my AWS consulting boutique by myself 5 years ago. Just at the beginning of the pandemic, what a visionary… ...

August 25, 2024 · 2 min · 364 words · zoph

Update on being Independent [6 months later]

This post is the second part of a series about my journey as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. Status As I’ve already told you in the first part, I’ve started my own business in early January 2020. After the first 6 months of being an Independent AWS Architect in France, I’m very happy with this move, no regret, and I won’t see any upcoming U-turn move to come back as a full-time employee. ...

June 1, 2020 · 4 min · 668 words · zoph

On being Independent

In December 2019, I’ve decided to switch from a long time (15 years) habits of Full-Time Employee (FTE) contracts to run my own business as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. This decision came to me after a few deceptions from my past experiences as a traditional employee/consultant, and I was thinking about this switch for several years now. It was the perfect time for me to start this new challenge: ...

January 1, 2020 · 2 min · 316 words · zoph