cloudcostdown.euAWS Cost Optimization · About
AWS Cost Specialist, Not a Generalist
CloudCostDown is run by Adam Pavlát - an AWS engineer who spent 2.5 years optimizing cloud cost and performance at Disney+ Hotstar, one of the world's largest AWS-hosted streaming platforms. Now he applies that same rigour to Series A–C startups paying for infrastructure they don't need.
Why "AWS cost specialist" is different from "cloud consultant"
Most cloud consultants are generalists: they touch AWS, GCP, and Azure, handle migrations, security reviews, and architecture design - with cost optimization somewhere near the bottom of the list.
Adam's focus is narrow by design. AWS cost performance is what he did full-time at Disney+ Hotstar. It's what he does for clients now. Specialists see patterns across environments that generalists miss - because they've seen the same problem fifty times before.
The result: clients get faster time-to-savings and deeper findings than an internal engineer or generalist consultant typically surfaces.
Generalist consultant
- Multi-cloud (AWS + GCP + Azure)
- Architecture, security, migration, cost
- Recommendations in a report
- Broad but shallow cost knowledge
CloudCostDown (specialist)
- AWS only
- Cost performance as primary focus
- IaC implementation (Terraform or CDK)
- Pattern recognition from Fortune-500 scale
Client results
Numbers from actual engagements - not estimated potential savings.
Series B fintech
€127,000/year savings
Reserved Instances, rightsizing, and Graviton migration across ECS and RDS
Series C marketplace
35% total AWS cost reduction
Multi-account restructuring, NAT Gateway elimination, Savings Plans coverage
Healthtech startup
€8,400/month recurring savings
EKS node consolidation with Karpenter, idle resource cleanup, gp3 migration
Career timeline
8+ years of software engineering, with the last 5 specialized in AWS infrastructure and cost performance at companies ranging from Series B SaaS to global Fortune-500 streaming platforms.
AWS Cloud Cost Performance Engineer
Disney+ Hotstar
- Led Graviton migrations for RDS and EKS node groups - 20–40% compute cost reduction across affected workloads
- Architected multi-account AWS infrastructure serving tens of millions of concurrent users during live sports events (ECS, EKS, Fargate, ALB, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge)
- Implemented Karpenter autoscaling on EKS, improving bin-packing and reducing idle node costs
- Operated at the scale of 50–60M concurrent streams - one of the largest AWS-hosted streaming platforms in the world
AWS Consultant (Part-time, concurrent with Disney+)
Oddin.gg
- Designed AWS architectures for millions of daily active users with sub-100ms global latency requirements
- Led AWS Organizations transformation: Identity Center/SSO rollout, zero-downtime migration to multi-account structure
- Established cost governance across accounts: tagging strategy, budget alerts, Savings Plans coverage
AWS Consultant (Part-time, concurrent with Disney+)
Alma Career
- Built AWS CDK TypeScript infrastructure from scratch for a new product line
- Designed GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines integrated with multi-account AWS deployments
- Delivered microservices architecture with cost-conscious defaults (Graviton, reserved capacity planning)
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Rossum.ai
- Managed hybrid AWS/Azure infrastructure using Terraform IaC at a Series B AI SaaS company
- Implemented Kubernetes monitoring stack and cloud cost tagging policies
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
MSD / Merck
- Built Terraform ML/AI pipelines on SageMaker for pharmaceutical research workloads
- Implemented serverless architectures using Lambda, API Gateway, and Fargate
Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Passed Mar 2021 · AWS certification validates architecture and cost-optimization design knowledge
MSc Open Informatics (AI focus, studies interrupted)
Czech Technical University in Prague · 2017–2018
BSc Cybernetics & Robotics
Czech Technical University · 2012–2016 · High Density Plasma physics research group
8+ years software engineering
5+ years specialized in AWS infrastructure and cost performance
5 founded projects
Building products shapes how Adam thinks about infrastructure costs - every euro of AWS spend is money not going into product. That operator mindset is what he brings to client engagements.
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