Migration & Modernization

Shiva Vaidyanathan

Author: Shiva Vaidyanathan

Shiva Vaidyanathan is a Principal Cloud Architect at AWS. He provides technical guidance, design and leads complex customer migration and modernization initiatives ensuring their success on AWS. He focuses on building agents for migration and modernization use cases leveraging Generative AI making AWS cloud adoption simpler for everyone. Prior to joining AWS, he has worked on several NSF funded research initiatives on how to perform secure computing in public cloud infrastructures. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New York University.

AWS Transform

Simplify how you build and publish Custom Agents with AWS Transform Agent Builder Toolkit

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents that accelerate cloud migration, application modernization, and continuous tech debt reduction. On May 14, 2026, AWS announced general availability of the AWS Transform Agent Toolkit Kiro Power, enabling Professional services organizations (e.g., consulting firms delivering cloud migrations), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) embedding […]

AWS Agentic AI Options for migrating VMware based workloads

AWS offers several generative AI services that transform VMware workload migrations into a streamlined, automated process. By using agentic AI technology, organizations can now accelerate their cloud journey while maintaining operational excellence and reducing risk. AI powered migration tools can assess your on-premises servers in VMWare environments to map complex application dependencies, recommend optimized resource […]