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Damien Renner

Author: Damien Renner

Damien Renner is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 10 years of experience delivering enterprise wide digital transformation initiatives. He partners with large enterprises to shape and execute modernization strategies, de-risk large-scale data center migrations, and drive tangible business outcomes through cloud-native adoption. During his spare time Damien can be found hiking up a mountain or planning his next travel adventure.

Accelerating large-scale cloud migrations with repeatable patterns

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers initiate large-scale cloud migrations to achieve specific business outcomes. The reasons for migration include consolidating or vacating data centres, adopting a cloud-first strategy, increasing agility and staff productivity, and reducing the total cost of ownership for IT. Using repeatable patterns for migrating workloads are a great way to jumpstart […]

The Importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Large-Scale Cloud Migrations

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measurements that help you understand how well you’re performing in specific areas. For example, from an incident management perspective, you may measure the mean time to recovery to understand how long it takes to recover following an incident. Large-scale enterprise migration programs (such as vacating a data center or […]

Accelerate your migration with version 3 of AWS Cloud Migration Factory

Today, we’re launching the third version of the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF), previously called CloudEndure Migration Factory. The AWS CMF is recommended for customers rehosting more than 100 servers to AWS, providing orchestration and automation capabilities to simplify the migration. This release provides further automation to support your medium and large scale AWS migrations. […]

AWS offerings available to support your cloud migration

With over a million active customers, AWS has experience helping organizations of all sizes migrate workloads to the cloud. A common theme is that selecting the right tools is crucial for reducing risk and enabling a reliable migration. In this blog post, I will select some of the most popular AWS migration tools and outline […]

Accelerating large-scale rehost migrations with CloudEndure Migration Factory

Accelerating large-scale migrations to AWS with CloudEndure Migration Factory

Many customers today want to migrate their servers to AWS as quickly as possible. This is often due to data center lease rapidly approach the termination/ renewal stages, or a first step in a large technology transformation program. This is not an easy activity, especially when you may have hundreds, if not thousands, of servers […]