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Willem VanEssendelft

Author: Willem VanEssendelft

Willem VanEssendelft is a Sr. Solutions Architect on the AWS Public Sector Migrations team, where he helps government and public sector organizations modernize their workloads and adopt generative AI responsibly. With 25 years building technology across startups, enterprise architecture, and the public sector, paired with a background in anthropology, he sees AI as the latest cycle in humanity's long relationship with transformative tools. He spends his best hours with his family, making music, tending the smoker, and keeping the peace between three cats.

Planning Migrations to successfully incorporate Generative AI

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) solutions presents challenges to migrations that are in flight and to migrations that are just beginning. The business problem is that generative AI complicates cloud migrations by introducing additional risks related to data isolation, data sharing, and service costs. For example, the US Space Force has […]