About
Razmus Consulting Group is an AWS consultancy founded in 2024 and based in Minnesota. We earn on the work, not on your AWS bill.
Leadership
Jim Razmus II
Founder and Principal
Leads architecture, security, and cost engagements. Working in technology since 1995, most recently as Director of Cloud Architecture at a SaaS company, and before that a principal consultant delivering Epic EMR platform selection and architecture engagements for hospitals across the United States. Earlier, thirteen years running storage, UNIX, Windows, and database teams for a $2B multinational manufacturer with operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and SysOps Administrator, ITIL certified, OpenBSD developer, and a former InfraGard member.
Our platform engineering and delivery practice is led by an architect with more than twenty years in infrastructure and site reliability engineering, whose background runs from large-scale Linux administration, through SRE for a SaaS product carrying FedRAMP and SOC 2 obligations, to GPU and high-performance computing for clinical research.
You meet the people who will actually do your work in the first working session, not a sales team you never see again.
The practice
RCG is built around a simple idea: you should be able to talk to the person who will actually do the work, from the first conversation.
Every engagement is led by a principal who stays on it through delivery. Behind that sit our consultants, a certified project manager who runs scheduling and status so engineers stay on technical work, and dedicated systems administration keeping our own environment — and often our clients’ — running.
Where we work
We are based in Minnesota, and most engagements run remotely. We travel when the work genuinely needs someone on site — a data center migration, an audit walkthrough, a workshop that needs everyone in the same room.
Where our incentives sit
We don’t resell AWS capacity. We are not a billing intermediary between you and Amazon, and your cloud spend is not our revenue.
We do resell a small number of software and systems products. We are selective about which, and about who we will do it for — the test is whether we would deploy it in our own environment. When we recommend something we would earn on, we say so at the time, and you are free to buy it elsewhere.
Our recommendations should hold up even when you know exactly what we stand to earn from them. That is the standard every recommendation has to meet.
If you’re weighing us up, our approach is the most useful page — it says what we do and, more importantly, in what order.
Let's talk about your cloud.
Our first conversation is about your problem, not a proposal.