Migration & Modernization
Category: Compute
Accelerate Your VMware Migration to AWS: Leveraging Amazon Elastic VMware Service and VMware HCX
Introduction Migrating VMware workloads to the cloud presents numerous challenges for organizations. From maintaining application dependencies and preserving IP addresses to managing downtime windows and ensuring consistent performance, the complexity of these migrations can often slow down cloud adoption initiatives. Network reconfigurations, application testing, and maintaining business continuity throughout the migration process add additional layers […]
How Smarsh reduced costs and increased scale migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Amazon EKS
This post is co-written with Evan Doyle and Blake Sherwood from Smarsh Customer Overview As a global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, Smarsh enables companies to transform oversight into foresight by surfacing business-critical signals across all digital communications. The company serves a global client base that spans 18 of the top 20 banks, […]
AWS for VMware: Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide
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 […]
Scaling Cloudera’s development environment: Leveraging Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Bottlerocket, and Cilium for hybrid cloud
This post is co-written with Shreelola Hegde,Sriharsha Devineni and Lee Watterworth from Cloudera. Cloudera is a global leader in enterprise data management, analytics, and AI. The Cloudera platform enables organizations to manage, process, and analyze massive datasets, helping businesses across industries like finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications accelerate AI/ML adoption and unlock real-time insights. A […]
Understanding Layer 2 Extensions: Comparing Three Prominent Solutions
Layer 2 (L2) network extensions play a critical role in hybrid cloud and data center migrations by providing seamless connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments. They allow virtual machines (VMs) to keep their IP and MAC addresses, ensuring application continuity during migrations or hybrid deployments. Three prominent solutions for L2 extensions are VMware HCX, Nutanix […]
Moody’s Transforms CreditLens™ Change Management Platform with Innovative Serverless Architecture
This post is co-written with Vihang Shah from Moody’s. Introduction Managing change requests across hundreds of applications while maintaining operational excellence presents a complex challenge for growing SaaS companies. Manual processes that once worked for dozens of deployments become unsustainable bottlenecks when scaled to enterprise levels. A solution to these bottlenecks is serverless automation that […]
Building for Scale and Speed: How Turnitin Accelerated Innovation with Micro-frontend Architecture on AWS
This post is co-written with James Chao, Distinguished Software Engineer from Turnitin. In this post we discuss how Turnitin migrated from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture built on AWS to support their growth, improved user experience and faster feature releases. We’ll discuss their previous monolithic frontend architecture, the key drivers for an architectural […]
How NTT DATA Payments achieved 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability with AWS ModAx
Learn how NTT DATA Payment Services modernized their Loyalty Application using AWS ModAx, achieving 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability. Through AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) methodology and modernization pathways, they transformed their monolithic architecture into microservices, enhanced scalability, and improved performance. Discover how they leveraged AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and Step Functions to build a robust cloud-native solution that processes 5x more transactions and reduces service restoration time by 67%.
Run VMware your way: Amazon Elastic VMware Service is now generally available
For enterprises running mission-critical workloads on VMware, moving to the cloud has often meant choosing between maintaining existing investments and embracing innovation. Today, that changes. Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now generally available in six AWS Regions, delivering AWS scale, flexibility, performance and security to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) users. What Amazon EVS […]
Availity accelerates migrations to Amazon EKS with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA)
Introduction As healthcare technology keeps evolving, leading organizations are embracing cloud-native solutions to enhance their operational capabilities. In this post, we’ll explore how Availity, America’s largest real-time healthcare information network, leveraged a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to accelerate the migration of 13 critical workloads to AWS. Four AWS services were the focus of this […]








