Migration & Modernization
Author: Jeff Escott
Jeff Escott is a Principal Architect at AWS with over 30 years of technology experience. He works with customers to define modernization strategies and adopt cloud-first approaches, focusing on helping customers transform across people, process, and technology. Additionally, Jeff has been a long time advocate for advancing the practice of architecture and growing future architects. Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is based in Connecticut, USA.
Agentic Cloud Modernization: Accelerating Modernization with AWS MCPs and Kiro
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations face mounting pressure to modernize their legacy systems while maintaining operational excellence and controlling costs. Traditional approaches to cloud modernization often require weeks of manual assessment, extensive documentation efforts, and significant development resources—creating bottlenecks that delay time-to-market and increase project costs. However, the emergence of AI-powered development assistants […]
Modernizing Legacy Applications with Event-Driven Architecture: The Leave-and-Layer Pattern
When your 20-year-old monolithic application needs new features and you can’t afford downtime or risk breaking existing functionality, what do you do? This challenge faces countless organizations running mission-critical legacy systems that power their business but struggle to keep pace with modern requirements. At AWS, we often hear from customers who need to modernize their […]