Migration & Modernization

Introduction Every successful cloud migration starts with a solid plan. AWS provides comprehensive guidance on migration strategy to help organizations assess their readiness, choose the right approach, and execute migrations efficiently and securely. But here’s what often gets overlooked: how many of those detailed plans include equally thorough rollback strategies — a deliberate, pre-planned path […]

Introduction Our Cloud Value Framework series explores how AWS delivers business value across five pillars: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. These pillars focus on benefits after workloads are running in the cloud. Strategic migration planning helps organizations achieve these outcomes faster. But this journey requires investment in the Cost of Change: […]

Most cloud engineers today still spend time chasing pages, triaging incidents, and scaling infrastructure manually. That is about to change. AI agents are beginning to take over this operational burden. Engineers who understand this shift early will be the ones who define how it unfolds. Written as a fictional log entry from 2031, this blog […]

AWS Transform for VMware simplifies how organizations migrate VMware workloads to AWS by providing an AI-driven, agentic experience that automates the entire migration journey, from initial discovery and assessment, through migration planning and wave execution, to the actual migration of virtual machines to AWS. It addresses one of the critical migration challenges: translating on-premises network […]

When Software Stops Waiting for Us For years, teams responsible for building and governing cloud platforms (such as the Cloud Center of Excellence) helped enterprises move faster without sacrificing governance or reliability. They standardized architecture, created guardrails, and turned cloud into a business accelerator rather than a technical experiment. Then software began to change. First, […]

Migrating and modernizing Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS requires the right strategies, tools, and real-world validation. This playlist brings together top sessions from AWS re:Invent 2025 — covering agentic AI-powered automation with AWS Transform, running VMware natively on AWS, and lessons from customers who’ve done it at scale — with practical guidance across every […]

This post is co-written with Hrvoje Lukavski from BMW Group, João Gonçalves and Jonas França from CTW. BMW Connected Company, a division within BMW Group, develops and operates premium digital services for BMW Group’s connected vehicle fleet of over 24.5 million vehicles worldwide. Critical Techworks (CTW), established in September 2018, emerged from a partnership between […]

This post is co-written with Fatima Calcuttawala, John Robe, and Yi Ding at Salesforce. Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted, AWS cloud-based analytics solution that offers a platform for data preparation, authoring, analysis, collaboration, publishing, and sharing of analytics content without the need to manage infrastructure or perform software updates. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform provides […]

This case study demonstrates how Fanatics Commerce successfully planned a large-scale migration of 1,800 servers across five data centers to AWS, achieving projected 48% infrastructure cost savings while maintaining global operational continuity. Fanatics Commerce (fanatics.com), the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operates a tech-powered, omnichannel platform that creates exceptional fan experiences across retail channels. […]

Migration assessments empower organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint and evaluate migration and modernization opportunities in the cloud. These assessments instill confidence in decision-makers and help organizations optimize their infrastructure, potentially reducing costs by up to 60% (Bain & Company, “Rightsizing your way to the cloud“).  AWS Transform assessments help eliminate the guesswork in the […]