Migration & Modernization

Category: Management Tools

Automating FSx for NetApp ONTAP Mounts with SSM and MGN Post-Migration

As organizations migrate to AWS at scale, connecting migrated instances to their new storage is a common bottleneck. When workloads move from on-premises NFS servers to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, teams often mount file systems by hand, minutes per instance that add up to weeks across hundreds or thousands of servers. This solution combines […]

Automate Your Landing Zone Creation with AWS Transform

Automate Your Landing Zone Creation with AWS Transform

When enterprises embark on their cloud migration journey, they bring years of operational maturity from running their workloads on-premises: separate environments for development, testing, and production, often segmented by business unit, with dedicated infrastructure, network boundaries, and identity controls for each. Translating these well-established patterns into cloud-native constructs like account structures, organizational units (OUs), and […]

Proactive Rocket Software Licensing Daemon Management on AWS

Proactive Rocket Software Licensing Daemon Management on AWS

AWS Transform for mainframe replatform is a migration service that helps organizations accelerate the modernization of their mainframe workloads to AWS. As organizations pursue their mainframe modernization journey, migrating mainframe systems to AWS has become a strategic imperative. The service provides an end-to-end automated migration pathway, including tooling, guidance, and self-managed runtime environments with Rocket […]

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 […]

Configuration Management Database Cloud

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, […]

How NTT Data Payments achieved 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability with AWS ModAx

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%.

Unlock Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 4: Migrate – Realizing Planned Savings)

Unlock Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 4: Migrate – Realizing Planned Savings)

This blog post is the fourth in a four-part series series to provide you a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]

Modernizing and scaling a tightly coupled legacy .Net application on AWS

Modernizing and scaling a tightly coupled legacy .NET application on AWS

AWS collaborated with an industrial company to modernize a legacy .NET Framework application using an Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) program. In this blog, we will explore the EBA process, and the related technical approach. This approach helped our customer modernize a legacy .NET Framework application that resulted in an improved performance by 16.5x while also reducing […]

Accelerating Your Nutanix to AWS Migration with Migration Evaluator

Accelerating Your Nutanix to AWS Migration with Migration Evaluator

Migrating to the cloud can be a complex and daunting task, but with the right tools and data, your organization can gain valuable insights to make informed decisions and accelerate the process. In this blog post, I will walk you through how you can leverage the Nutanix Collector to gather inventory and utilization data from […]

Reset Windows server identity settings using AWS Application Migration Service post-launch automation

Reset Windows server identity settings using AWS Application Migration Service post-launch automation

Rehost (also known as lift and shift) is a migration strategy that allows you to quickly move applications to the cloud, without making application changes. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is used for rehost migrations, as the service creates a copy of the source disk with the operating system and its configuration settings. These […]