Migration & Modernization

Ryan Peterson

Author: Ryan Peterson

Ryan Peterson (RP) is the WW Leader for Agentic Transformation at AWS, based in Irvine, CA. In this role, RP drives strategy and enablement to help customers achieve their agentic outcomes and transform legacy systems into intelligent, autonomous platforms that deliver sustained competitive advantage. He leads an internal community of practice consisting of modernization specialist Solution Architects, Technical Account Managers, Customer Success Managers, and ProServe Architects.

Agentic readiness and modernization analysis are now available in AWS Transform continuous modernization

by Ryan Peterson, Jeff Carson, and Lucas Soriano Alves Duarte on Permalink Share

Earlier this year we introduced Agentic Readiness as a method for evaluating whether applications can safely support AI agent interaction, and then shipped Agentic Readiness Analysis (ARA) and Modernization Analysis (MODA) as managed transformation definitions in AWS Transform. Those analyses gave you per-repository and portfolio-level assessments you could run on demand via the ATX CLI. […]

Agentic Readiness: A Method for Evaluating Applications for Agent Interaction

by Ryan Peterson and Lucas Soriano Alves Duarte on Permalink Share

When the bottleneck is not your agent, but the applications it depends on Introduction You design an agentic workflow to automate order fulfillment without first evaluating whether your applications are ready for agent interaction. The agent monitors incoming orders, validates inventory, authorizes payment, and triggers shipping. In isolation, each step works. In production, the dependencies […]

Enabling AI Agents to Interact with Existing Applications

Enabling AI agents to interact with existing applications

When I talk to organizations looking to adopt AI-driven workflows, one question keeps coming up: how can we take the applications we’ve already invested in and make them usable by AI agents? The answer lies in a pattern that bridges modern AI with traditional business systems by exposing your existing applications as tools via the […]