Migration & Modernization

Reimagining mainframe applications with AWS Transform and Claude Code

Your mainframe applications encode decades of critical business logic in COBOL and PL/I. That logic processes millions of transactions daily, and it is a valuable asset. But the business demands around that logic are changing faster than the legacy applications can adapt. A bank launching new digital products needs event-driven processing across every channel, not […]

How Grupo UPAX modernized its Human Capital Management solution with AWS

In this blog post, we will describe how Grupo UPAX, a Mexican Professional Services Company specializing in technology, innovation and creativity for business, modernized one of its core applications (Talento Zeus) using AWS Serverless Technology, increasing business agility, while reducing costs and operation effort. The challenge Grupo UPAX wanted to solve for Talento Zeus Talento Zeus is a […]

Anonymizing AWS Transform Discovery Tool exports for regulated customers

Anonymizing AWS Transform Discovery Tool Exports for Regulated Customers

Introduction AWS Transform is an AI-powered service that accelerates enterprise modernization of VMware workloads, Windows, mainframe, and application code. It provides two key offerings for VMware migration planning: AWS Transform Assessments generates a complimentary, data-driven business case for your VMware infrastructure, including cost analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and migration planning. AWS Transform for VMware automates the […]

Amazon EVS now offers Windows Server licensing: A step-by-step guide

Flexibility, control, and choice have always been core pillars of the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS gives you the ability to maintain existing investments in VMware technologies while embracing the benefits of the cloud. With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal […]

Modernize VB6 Applications at Scale with AWS Transform Custom

Estimated time to complete: 90–120 minutes  Level: Advanced (400)   Microsoft ended extended support for Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) in 2008, yet thousands of mission-critical applications across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing still depend on it.  These applications contain decades of business logic, but maintaining them becomes more difficult each year.  VB6 developers are increasingly expensive to hire as fewer remain in the […]

Migrating and decomposing APIs with zero-downtime using CloudFront

Migrating and decomposing APIs with zero-downtime using CloudFront

A fundamental shift in API demand patterns is emerging from artificial intelligence integration. More than 30% of the increase in API demand will come from AI and tools using large language models by 2026. This AI-driven transformation is supported by statistics showing that enterprise AI adoption reached 78% in 2024, marking a dramatic acceleration from […]

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AWS Transform: Comprehensive Codebase Analysis for Modernization

Application modernization often begins with a difficult task: comprehensive legacy codebase analysis to understand how the system works. Many legacy applications evolve over years of incremental changes, leaving teams with limited documentation, tightly coupled dependencies, and business logic spread across multiple services and modules. For engineering teams, this lack of visibility creates a common challenge. […]

End Manual License Tracking with AWS License Manager

End Manual License Tracking with AWS License Manager

Overview Are you still tracking software licenses manually? Manual license tracking costs, overprovision licenses without visibility into actual usage, miss renewals, face emergency purchases, and risk compliance violations during vendor audits. Manual license tracking creates chaos, and you waste hours updating spreadsheets. AWS License Manager automate this manual effort. Your company needs a centralized license […]

Agentic AI Meets PL/I: Modernizing Mainframes with AWS Transform

Introduction Many enterprises worldwide depend on PL/I mainframe applications to run critical operations like banking, insurance claims, and government services. PL/I accounts for roughly 5% of all applications, (Leverage Compilation Technology to Optimize Investment on System z) primarily in financial services, insurance, and public sector, proving remarkably resilient over decades. However, organizations face growing challenges […]

Maximizing Cloud Value Through AI-Powered Acceleration:From Intelligence to Action

Maximizing Cloud Value Through AI-Powered Acceleration: From Intelligence to Action

Introduction Organizations maximizing cloud value through AI-powered acceleration have a competitive advantage, a stark contrast to the 56% of CEOs reporting zero return on their AI investments according to PwC. Despite billions invested across the industry, more than half of business leaders see neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI initiatives. Yet 12% who […]