Migration & Modernization
Category: Adoption
Sustaining migration velocity through structured operational handoffs
Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]
When Software Thinks and Acts – Reimagining Cloud Platform Engineering for Agentic AI
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, […]
Beyond Automation: Why Cloud Reinvention Drives True Business Transformation
Introduction: The Missed Opportunity in the Cloud Consider companies that simply moved their existing business models to digital platforms without reimagining the underlying processes. Many became irrelevant while competitors transformed entire industries. Yet this mirrors what many organizations do today. They migrate legacy processes to the cloud without reimagining them. AWS defines seven migration strategies […]
Ask not what your CMDB can do for you—ask what you can do for your CMDB
The Missing Link in Cloud Modernization: A Trusted CMDB Walk into any IT organization and mention the words Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and you’ll usually get one of two reactions: either a hopeful nod about its promise, or a sigh about its failure. A CMDB maps IT assets—or configuration items (CIs)—such as servers, databases, applications, […]