Category: Migration Solutions

We’re excited to announce updates to the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) incentives that further enable AWS Partners to support customer migrations to the cloud faster and at scale. Since its inception in 2016, MAP has supported thousands of customers on their journey to AWS, and these enhancements respond directly to partner feedback for more resources to better support cloud migration and modernization efforts.

As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they need tools to assess application portfolios for cloud readiness. CAST Highlight provides automated analysis of custom applications, identifying issues like outdated code, cloud migration blockers, and opportunities for cloud-native services. By integrating with AWS Migration Hub Journeys, CAST offers a template to orchestrate analysis of large portfolios across teams to accelerate cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

Learn how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) security perspective to VMware Cloud on AWS. This post covers the shared responsibility model between VMware, AWS, and the customer across areas like security governance, access management, threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response. Understanding these distinct scopes is critical for maintaining a strong security and compliance posture when using VMware Cloud on AWS.

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) workshop delivery guide is available in the AWS Prescriptive Guidance library and offers step-by-step guidance for AWS Partners to run their own workshops with customers. It’s the same guidance we provide internally to AWS staff, providing both sales and delivery kits along with prescriptive guidance that is our gold standard for delivering AWS CAF workshops to help customers in their cloud transformation journey.

Enterprises are seeking mainframe modernization to drive efficiency, agility, and innovation. A Kyndryl survey revealed that 95% are migrating mainframe applications to the cloud, with 37% of workloads being relocated on average. Despite challenges like workforce shortage, businesses report increased profitability and millions in average annual savings through modernization. Kyndryl offers expertise, tools, and solutions to assist clients in navigating this complex journey seamlessly while enhancing operational efficiency.

Many enterprises still rely on the Adabas database and Natural programming language for critical workloads, facing rising license costs and a shrinking talent pool. To reduce reliance on these aging technologies and enable digital transformation, companies are modernizing to AWS with Advanced’s solutions. Advanced offers automated refactoring of Natural code to Java/C# and replatforming to execute Natural on Windows, along with migrating Adabas databases to modern relational databases.

Many organizations are migrating mainframe workloads to AWS to modernize applications and infrastructure. Mainframe batch jobs are business-critical, so AWS integrated its Mainframe Modernization service with BMC’s Control-M workflow orchestrator. Control-M automates and monitors batch jobs on-premises and in the cloud. This integration provides end-to-end visibility, prevents service degradation, and avoids missed SLAs.

As organizations modernize mainframe applications, integrating mainframe batch workloads into cloud environments is a key challenge. Stonebranch’s scheduler integrates with AWS Mainframe Modernization service to enable centralized, automated scheduling and monitoring of mainframe batch jobs on the cloud. This improves efficiency, optimizes costs, and accelerates mainframe modernization by enabling seamless workload orchestration across legacy and modern platforms.

Various paths can be taken to address the perceived need for modernization. Some consider moving existing mainframe applications to distributed or cloud platforms to reduce costs, enhance performance, and increase business agility as a form of modernization. Learn how the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) simplifies mainframe modernization complexity with its Mainframe Zero Approach. Accenture offers comprehensive solutions to migrate and manage operations on AWS.

Sapphire Systems is an AWS Partner and leading digital operating transformation provider that has made great strides in the expansion of its software and service offerings, and has collaborated with leading players such as AWS and SAP. Learn how Sapphire started an ambitious program to migrate to AWS and exit its two physical data centers in the UK. The migration, which had a large SAP Business One component, leveraged the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) framework and investments.