Simon Davies
Senior Cloud Architect I
30 years of tech. Still building what's next.
About Me
Senior Cloud Architect and Gen AI Consultant working predominantly with AWS.
With 30 years in the software industry, I bridge the gap between stakeholders, business, and technical teams — translating ideas into architecture.
What I Do
🤖 Gen AI & Foundation Models — Architecting solutions that leverage the expanding world of LLMs and generative AI
☁️ Cloud-Native Architecture — Helping organisations move to cloud and modernise how they work with data
🔗 Stakeholder Translation — Turning business needs into technical reality (and back again)
My Focus
I help organisations adopt Gen AI, explore foundation models, and put their data to work in new ways. If it involves AWS and AI, I'm in my element.
Off the Clock
🏃 Chasing half marathon PBs | 🐕 Trail walks with my Irish Red Setter | 🚴 Spin classes (suffer in silence type) | ✈️ Exploring wherever the next flight takes me
- GenAI
- RDS
- Aurora
- Bedrock
- AgentCore
- Strands Agents
- Kiro
- Agentic AI
My Certifications
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Apr 21, 2023)
Renewable as of April 21, 2026
AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Aug 29, 2024)
Expires Aug 29, 2027
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Oct 7, 2022)
Renewable as of October 7, 2025
What my customers say
I would expect GCP to be more proactive and communicate hardware failures directly with us. We should not have to request and wait for 2 weeks to get an RCA.
redislabs.com · Jun 2026
Talks I've given
Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Optimization: Your App's Secret Weapon for Success
AWS Indonesia Cloud Day · Jakarta, Indonesia · Mar 18, 2025
Journeys with Data @ DoiT
AWS Data and AI Day · Auckland, NZ · May 29, 2026
Generative AI on AWS: Using AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock Customer Day · Bangkok, Thailand · Apr 26, 2024
Generative AI on AWS: Using AgentCore and Strands
AWS AgentCore Customer Day · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Jul 30, 2025
Generative AI on AWS: Using AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock Customer Day · Auckland, NZ · Aug 14, 2024
Generative AI on AWS: Using AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock Customer Day · Adelaide, Australia · Jun 12, 2024
Generative AI on AWS: Using AWS Bedrock
AWS Bedrock Customer Day · Perth, Australia · Jun 13, 2024
Extra
🏃 Half marathons don't run themselves — follow along on Strava