Migration & Modernization

Category: Compute

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 […]

An Engine of Efficiency - BMW Groups CICD Modernization Journey with AWS

An Engine of Efficiency: BMW Group’s CI/CD Modernization Journey with AWS

This post is co-written with Hrvoje Lukavski from BMW Group, João Gonçalves and Jonas França from CTW. BMW Connected Company, a division within BMW Group, develops and operates premium digital services for BMW Group’s connected vehicle fleet of over 24.5 million vehicles worldwide. Critical Techworks (CTW), established in September 2018, emerged from a partnership between […]

How Bizrate Achieved 30% Faster Performance Using AWS Serverless Services

How Bizrate Insights Achieved 30% Faster Performance Using AWS Serverless Services

In this blog post, we’ll show how Bizrate Insights re-architected their platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) serverless and container services. The modernization achieved 30% faster performance, reduced average page response times to 0.01–0.03 seconds, improved SEO rankings, and created a foundation for future Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven innovations. We’ll walk through their journey from […]

Accelerating VMware Cloud Migration with AWS Transform and PowerCLI

Accelerating VMware Cloud Migration with AWS Transform and PowerCLI

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 […]

Introducing the AWS Transform discovery tool

Introducing the AWS Transform discovery tool

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 […]