After the acquisition, Ryan remained involved in cloud education and technology. He continues to advocate for practical, hands-on learning and has spoken at major cloud conferences like AWS re:Invent. He is also an active angel investor in edtech and SaaS startups, and occasionally creates content to help new cloud professionals break into the industry.
In his courses, Kroonenburg famously advocated for reading specific whitepapers, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS KMS Cryptographic Details , to gain the "deep" knowledge required for exams like the Solutions Architect Professional. ryan kroonenburg