Category: Generative AI

For years, cloud migration projects have been slowed by fragmented, manual processes. Discovery required deploying multiple tools and navigating lengthy approvals. Assessments relied on manual analysis or tools requiring significant time. Migration itself depended on manual scripting for wave planning, network conversion, and server orchestration. This end-to-end journey often stretched across many months, delaying cloud […]

Building on a momentous launch earlier this year, AWS adds new powerful AI capabilities to AWS Transform for VMware migration agent. AWS Transform for VMware understands your business priorities, adapts to your environments, and gives you greater control at every migration step. The agent orchestrates migration processes including dependency mapping, intelligent wave planning, and network […]

Mainframe modernization is necessary for enterprises to increase agility, reduce costs, innovate, and mitigate business risks. Yet organizations face a significant hurdle during modernization: testing is critically important to validate modernized applications behavior, but it typically consumes more than half of project timelines and resources. As enterprises race to modernize their legacy systems, this testing […]

AWS Transform, launched in May 2025, is the first agentic AI service for modernizing mainframe workloads at scale. The AI-powered mainframe agent accelerates mainframe modernization by automating complex, resource-intensive tasks across every phase of modernization from initial assessment to final deployment. You can streamline the migration of legacy mainframe applications, including COBOL, JCL, CICS, Db2, […]

Sessions, workshops, blogposts, and breakthrough announcements Mainframe modernization is critical imperative for enterprises seeking to reduce costs and improve agility, yet traditional approaches to modernization face significant challenges including navigating complex legacy codebases, incomplete or missing system documentation, and the scarcity of specialized mainframe expertise due to a retiring workforce. Generative AI and Agentic AI […]

In this blog post, we outline the AWS approach to modernizing mainframe legacy applications through the reimagine pattern, showcasing how organizations can transform legacy COBOL applications into modern, cloud-native architectures. Organizations are facing urgent imperatives to modernize their legacy mainframe applications due to talent shortages, increasing costs, and restrictions on business agility. AWS supports multiple […]

The AWS Transform discovery tool is an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) that you deploy in your VMware infrastructure. This tool replaces the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector. The discovery tool operates as a self-contained application that can be deployed on-premises without requiring cloud connectivity or external dependencies. This architecture makes it suitable for highly regulated […]

We’re just one month away from AWS re:Invent 2025, where builders, innovators, and transformation leaders from around the world will gather in Las Vegas to explore the future of cloud and AI. This year’s agenda features 15+ technical sessions and workshops on mainframe modernization, where you can learn from AWS experts, explore proven modernization strategies, […]

Introduction Mainframe customers face a myriad of options to modernize. Organizations now face urgent imperatives to modernize due to talent shortages, high and often rising costs, and restrictions on business agility imposed by the legacy environment. Customers also find themselves navigating a multitude of modernization patterns, tools, and strategies. The disposition strategy includes guiding principles […]

Discover how to revolutionize your VMware environment with AWS’s latest AI-powered migration tools and modernization solutions. This year’s re:Invent showcases new breakthroughs such as AWS Transform and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), real-world transformation strategies from industry leaders and guidance to get your digital transformation started. We’ve curated the top VMware-focused sessions that matter […]