Kate Gawron
Senior Cloud Architect II
The Cloud Database Architect
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Cloud database architect with 12+ years across operational and analytical platforms. AWS Ambassador. Speaker, webinar host, blogger, course creator.
Specialising in database modernisation, Aurora, RDS, Snowflake, and getting teams from raw data to production AI across EMEA.
Off the clock: strength training, cricket, and going sideways on a kart track.
What I'm writing
AWS European Sovereign Cloud: What It Is and Why It Matters
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). It’s big!
Comparing Aurora Distributed SQL vs. Aurora Serverless v2: A Practical Cost Analysis
We ran real-world benchmarks to compare the cost efficiency of Aurora Distributed SQL vs. Serverless v2 — here’s what we discovered
Inside the Query Planner: Analyzing EXPLAIN Plans in Amazon Neptune
When working with Amazon Neptune, performance tuning can often feel like navigating a dark cave without a flashlight. Queries might slow…
Webinars I've hosted
Amazon RDS performance optimization: Instance types, storage, and monitoring best practices
Amazon Aurora Distributed SQL (DSQL): How it works & when Aurora DSQL makes sense
Customers I've helped
Sliide cuts cloud spend 15% across AWS and GCP
“With DoiT, you can quickly visualize things. You can see all of the information on dashboards and reports very easily, AWS and Google Cloud accounts work seamlessly. I love every single DoiT engineer who's helped us resolve issues or investigate potential solutions. When you open up a ticket, the response rates are insane. I hear back the same day.”
— Jay Rawal, Head of DevOps at Sliide
ablefy cuts RDS costs 65%, loads 10x faster
“We love working with DoiT. We get cloud optimization experts who can significantly reduce our costs, as well as experienced mentors and sparring partners to help us improve our architecture and experiment with new approaches. We look forward to continuing our collaboration.”
— Alex Ischenko, VP of Engineering at ablefy
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