Migration & Modernization

Enterprises need their core systems to support business transformation and AI. When those systems are undocumented mainframe monoliths, they become the bottleneck. Reverse engineering a mainframe application, capturing its business intent, and translating that into modern code could take months or years for even a small set of business functionality. Many organizations settled for migration […]

Introduction Consider a team with over 400 servers to migrate, dozens of applications with varying dependencies, and multiple teams waiting on cutover windows. Every migration is unique, yet the challenges remain consistent. Teams struggle with manual tracking through spreadsheets, human errors in repetitive tasks like agent installation and DNS updates, decentralized orchestration across disconnected consoles, […]

Introduction If your organization runs VMware workloads on-premises or in another cloud and needs to migrate to AWS without disrupting operations, Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) provides a proven path to do it fast. Using a structured three-day EBA workshop with AWS, organizations have moved multiple critical applications to AWS in days. Their engineers built hands-on migration […]

When enterprises embark on their cloud migration journey, they bring years of operational maturity from running their workloads on-premises: separate environments for development, testing, and production, often segmented by business unit, with dedicated infrastructure, network boundaries, and identity controls for each. Translating these well-established patterns into cloud-native constructs like account structures, organizational units (OUs), and […]

Introduction Migration assessment and planning is rarely a single-pass exercise. Inventory data is incomplete; assumptions shift as more stakeholders get involved, and new scenarios emerge as the strategy evolves. Traditional assessment workflows struggle with this reality because they treat each assessment as a one-shot report: collect data, run analysis, deliver a static business case, and […]

Introduction Lift-and-shift has a reputation problem. Ask any enterprise architect and you’ll get a wince. “We just moved our problems to the cloud.” That criticism has a grain of truth – but only when migration is treated as the end goal. The real question is whether it’s the right first step. Often, it is. Here’s […]

The term ‘mainframe modernization’ is itself out of date. Modernization used to mean upgrading the technology. AI has made it about reimagining the business. Introduction The term “mainframe modernization” has been associated with infrastructure and technology modernization projects rather than business transformation. This covers a wide range of projects with very different objectives: application and […]

An AI migration means different things to different teams, and that ambiguity is expensive. Are you migrating with AI, to AI, or from AI? The answer shapes your staffing plan, governance model, and timeline, because each motion carries a different risk profile and demands a different set of skills. Gartner found that by the end […]

Today, we’re announcing the model-to-model migration assessment custom transformation for AWS Transform, an AI agent that assesses your generative AI applications and produces a comprehensive migration plan for moving from other GenAI providers to Amazon Bedrock. Enterprises that built generative AI on OpenAI, Google Gemini, or direct Anthropic APIs find that scaling to production demands more than […]

You may need to run workloads in your data center on AWS Outposts for low-latency access to on-premises systems, data residency requirements, or local data processing. With Outposts, you get the same AWS APIs, instance types, and tools available in the AWS Region, on hardware that AWS delivers, installs, and manages in your facility. But […]