Migration & Modernization

Category: Compute

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How to size your AWS Outposts rack configuration from server inventory

You may need to run workloads in your data center on AWS Outposts for low-latency access to on-premises systems, data residency requirements, or local data processing. With Outposts, you get the same AWS APIs, instance types, and tools available in the AWS Region, on hardware that AWS delivers, installs, and manages in your facility. But […]

Replacing Netflix Conductor with AWS Step Functions: What We Learned

Introduction Accelerate your business transformation by migrating from Netflix Conductor to AWS Step Functions. This strategic move offers significant benefits: Cost Reduction: Eliminate infrastructure management costs and take advantage of AWS’s pay-per-use model. Increased Reliability: Benefit from AWS’s fully managed service with a 99.9% availability SLA. Enhanced Scalability: Scale to up to 1 million open […]

How AWS Is Using Agentic AI To Reinvent Infrastructure Modernization

Traditional VMware migrations have long suffered from fragmentation and inflexibility. Enterprises had to cobble together disconnected tools for discovery, planning, network configuration, and rehosting, each requiring specialized expertise and lengthy manually orchestrated handoffs. These rigid, rules-based tools can’t adapt to each customer’s unique environment, resulting in compounding costs, expensive customizations, and timelines that stretch into […]

Amazon EVS expands support options with Broadcom

Introduction When you run VMware workloads on AWS, getting the right support quickly matters. Today, we’re sharing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) customers can now contact AWS or Broadcom for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) support. With this change, you can connect directly to the support organization best positioned to resolve your specific issue, […]

Containerize during migration: Replatform applications to containers with AWS Transform

Introduction When planning or executing a cloud migration, you face a choice between migration strategies: rehost your applications quickly to meet data center exit deadlines, or invest the time to modernize and replatform them into cloud-native architectures. Modernization can take many forms, from serverless architectures, managed services, containers, or a combination, depending on the workload […]

How Grupo UPAX modernized its Human Capital Management solution with AWS

In this blog post, we will describe how Grupo UPAX, a Mexican Professional Services Company specializing in technology, innovation and creativity for business, modernized one of its core applications (Talento Zeus) using AWS Serverless Technology, increasing business agility, while reducing costs and operation effort. The challenge Grupo UPAX wanted to solve for Talento Zeus Talento Zeus is a […]

Amazon EVS now offers Windows Server licensing: A step-by-step guide

Flexibility, control, and choice have always been core pillars of the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS gives you the ability to maintain existing investments in VMware technologies while embracing the benefits of the cloud. With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal […]

End Manual License Tracking with AWS License Manager

End Manual License Tracking with AWS License Manager

Overview Are you still tracking software licenses manually? Manual license tracking costs, overprovision licenses without visibility into actual usage, miss renewals, face emergency purchases, and risk compliance violations during vendor audits. Manual license tracking creates chaos, and you waste hours updating spreadsheets. AWS License Manager automate this manual effort. Your company needs a centralized license […]

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Kickstart Migration: Streamlining Cloud Migration Planning with AWS Serverless Technology

Large-scale cloud migration planning often requires coordinating multiple teams, gathering accurate technical information, and tracking schedules against migration progress across hundreds of applications. Migration planning teams often struggle with data collection, parsing scattered data across spreadsheets and emails. Application owners face repetitive questionnaires and changing timelines. And migration engineers require detailed infrastructure assessments to avoid […]

Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS: Your complete AWS re:Invent 2025 playlist

Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS: Your complete AWS re:Invent 2025 playlist

Migrating and modernizing Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS requires the right strategies, tools, and real-world validation. This playlist brings together top sessions from AWS re:Invent 2025 — covering agentic AI-powered automation with AWS Transform, running VMware natively on AWS, and lessons from customers who’ve done it at scale — with practical guidance across every […]