Category: Enterprise Strategy

Introduction AWS Transform is an AI-powered service that accelerates enterprise modernization of VMware workloads, Windows, mainframe, and application code. It provides two key offerings for VMware migration planning: AWS Transform Assessments generates a complimentary, data-driven business case for your VMware infrastructure, including cost analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and migration planning. AWS Transform for VMware automates the […]

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 […]

A fundamental shift in API demand patterns is emerging from artificial intelligence integration. More than 30% of the increase in API demand will come from AI and tools using large language models by 2026. This AI-driven transformation is supported by statistics showing that enterprise AI adoption reached 78% in 2024, marking a dramatic acceleration from […]

Introduction Organizations maximizing cloud value through AI-powered acceleration have a competitive advantage, a stark contrast to the 56% of CEOs reporting zero return on their AI investments according to PwC. Despite billions invested across the industry, more than half of business leaders see neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI initiatives. Yet 12% who […]

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 […]

Introduction Every successful cloud migration starts with a solid plan. AWS provides comprehensive guidance on migration strategy to help organizations assess their readiness, choose the right approach, and execute migrations efficiently and securely. But here’s what often gets overlooked: how many of those detailed plans include equally thorough rollback strategies — a deliberate, pre-planned path […]

Introduction Our Cloud Value Framework series explores how AWS delivers business value across five pillars: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. These pillars focus on benefits after workloads are running in the cloud. Strategic migration planning helps organizations achieve these outcomes faster. But this journey requires investment in the Cost of Change: […]

When Software Stops Waiting for Us For years, teams responsible for building and governing cloud platforms (such as the Cloud Center of Excellence) helped enterprises move faster without sacrificing governance or reliability. They standardized architecture, created guardrails, and turned cloud into a business accelerator rather than a technical experiment. Then software began to change. First, […]

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 […]

This post is co-written with Fatima Calcuttawala, John Robe, and Yi Ding at Salesforce. Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted, AWS cloud-based analytics solution that offers a platform for data preparation, authoring, analysis, collaboration, publishing, and sharing of analytics content without the need to manage infrastructure or perform software updates. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform provides […]