Thomas Thyen is a Senior Cloud Architect – Migration & Modernization at Amazon Web Services (AWS) mainly focusing on AWS by designing custom cloud strategies, multi-cloud solutions, cloud migrations and transformations for customers within the EMEA region.

During the +18 years of his career in several different roles, he was supporting customers to build private cloud environments and helping them move to Public Clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Oracle Cloud VMware Solution he build up his experience in Public & Private Cloud Architecture & VMware Software Defined Datacenter and Cloud Solutions.

Specialties: AWS, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) VMware vSphere 3.5 – 9.0, VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, VMware Software Defined Datacenter & Cloud Solutions, High Availability Solutions, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery Solutions, Cloud Migrations, Cloud Transformation, Application Modernization and Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture.

Career

• Senior Cloud Architect – Migration & Modernization | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Dec 2025 – Now
• Principal Cloud Solution Architect – Office of the CTO | Oracle | Apr 2022 – Dec 2025
• Principal Cloud Workload Architect | Oracle | Feb 2021 – Aug 2022
• Senior Solution Architect – Cloud Infrastructure Services | Capgemini | Jul 2020 – Feb 2021
• Senior Solution Architect – Cloud & Datacenter Services | Fujitsu | Aug 2018 – Jul 2020
• Technical IT Architect | ArianeGroup | Jul 2017 – Aug 2018
• Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer | BCD Travel | Mar 2011 – Jul 2017
• Systemadministrator | InnoGames | Jan 2009 – Feb 2011
• Systemadministrator & Developer | CSM Datentechnik | Aug 2007 – Jan 2009

AWS – Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Google Cloud – Certifications:

• Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Certifications:

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Architect Professional
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Networking Professional
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Multicloud Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 AI Certified Foundations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2022 Certified Architect Professional
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Architect Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Architect Professional
• Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2020 Certified Specialist
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Enterprise Workloads Certified Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Cloud Operations Associate
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 HPC and Big Data Solutions Certified Associate

VMware – vExpert:

• VMware vExpert 2025
• VMware vExpert 2024
• VMware vExpert 2023
• VMware vExpert 2022
• VMware vExpert Cloud Providers 2024

VMware – Certifications for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

• VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (VCF 9.0)
• VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCF 9.0)
• VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (VCF 5.2)
• VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCF 5.2)

VMware – Certifications for Data Center Virtualization:

• VMware Certified Implementation Expert 2022 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2022 – Data Center Virtualization Deploy
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2024 – Data Center Virtualization Design
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2021 – Data Center Virtualization Design
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2020 – Data Center Virtualization Design
• VMware Certified Professional 2024 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Professional 2021 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Professional 2020 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization
• VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization

VMware – Certifications for Network Virtualization:

• VMware Certified Implementation Expert 2023 – Network Virtualization
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2023 – Network Virtualization Deploy
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 2022 – Network Virtualization Design
• VMware Certified Professional 2022 – Network Virtualization (NSX-T)
• VMware Certified Professional 2020 – Network Virtualization (NSX-V)

VMware – Specialist Certifications:

• VMware Certified Specialist – vSAN 2024
• VMware Certified Specialist – vSAN 2022