Migration & Modernization

This post is co-written with Sudeesh Sasidharan and Nick Sciarrilli from OpenAI AWS Transform for mainframe handles the reverse engineering of the critical business logic embedded in your COBOL, PL/I, and JCL codebase, discovering business functions, extracting business rules with source-line traceability, and generating technology-agnostic requirements in a structured format. Modernization at enterprise scale demands […]

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with established SaaS products face a pivotal modernization decision. While enterprise customers demand intelligent automation through AI agents, they still require complete control over their data. For ISVs already serving regulated industries, the challenge isn’t building a new product, but it’s evolving existing SaaS architecture to incorporate autonomous AI agents while […]

Introduction If you’re managing student transportation for a school district, you’re navigating increasingly diverse student needs alongside rising expectations from families who want real-time visibility into their student’s journey. At the same time, you must deliver consistent, reliable service in a complex operating environment where disruptions can quickly impact safety, service reliability and community trust. […]

Large-scale migrations and modernizations are among the most complex programs an IT organization undertakes. Teams spend weeks building spreadsheets to catalog servers, months writing business cases to justify the move, and years executing migration waves while keeping production systems running. At every stage, the challenge is the same: too much manual work, too many handoffs, […]

Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces a new deployment mode that manages multiple applications on shared infrastructure that AWS creates, operates, and upgrades for you. Whether you provide source code, a Dockerfile, or a prebuilt container image, Elastic Beanstalk takes care of building and deploying your application. It also configures networking, autoscaling, and observability. You manage […]

Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]

A New Chapter in Security For years, cybersecurity defense traditionally followed a familiar, non-continuous rhythm. An issue is discovered, security teams investigate, developers prioritize a fix, and operations deploy a patch. The organization moves on until the next one. That cycle worked when changes happened weekly and threat actors needed months to develop proof-of-concept code. […]

When AI initiatives stall, the instinct is to look at the model, the data, or the team. But more often, the constraint is underneath all of those — in the infrastructure itself. And running in the cloud doesn’t automatically remove that constraint. If the architecture was designed around pre-AI assumptions, it carries the same limitations […]

Healthcare organizations migrating regulated workloads to AWS must maintain security and privacy controls at every phase, including replication, testing, and cutover, not just after workloads reach production. This post shows how to layer HIPAA controls onto the proven multi-account AWS Transform MGN (formerly AWS Application Migration Service) migration architecture using AWS Resource Access Manager, covering encrypted private replication, audit continuity, and evidence collection.  […]

For the 16th consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and once again placed AWS highest on the Ability to Execute axis. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the longest-running Leader in this Magic Quadrant. In Gartner’s words: “Amazon Web […]