Category: Migration Solutions

Mainframe modernization is necessary for enterprises to increase agility, reduce costs, innovate, and mitigate business risks. Yet organizations face a significant hurdle during modernization: testing is critically important to validate modernized applications behavior, but it typically consumes more than half of project timelines and resources. As enterprises race to modernize their legacy systems, this testing […]

AWS Transform, launched in May 2025, is the first agentic AI service for modernizing mainframe workloads at scale. The AI-powered mainframe agent accelerates mainframe modernization by automating complex, resource-intensive tasks across every phase of modernization from initial assessment to final deployment. You can streamline the migration of legacy mainframe applications, including COBOL, JCL, CICS, Db2, […]

Sessions, workshops, blogposts, and breakthrough announcements Mainframe modernization is critical imperative for enterprises seeking to reduce costs and improve agility, yet traditional approaches to modernization face significant challenges including navigating complex legacy codebases, incomplete or missing system documentation, and the scarcity of specialized mainframe expertise due to a retiring workforce. Generative AI and Agentic AI […]

In this blog post, we outline the AWS approach to modernizing mainframe legacy applications through the reimagine pattern, showcasing how organizations can transform legacy COBOL applications into modern, cloud-native architectures. Organizations are facing urgent imperatives to modernize their legacy mainframe applications due to talent shortages, increasing costs, and restrictions on business agility. AWS supports multiple […]

Legacy mainframe applications are the backbone of some critical business operations across enterprises, yet these systems present significant modernization challenges. While proven reliable over decades, mainframes accumulate substantial technical debt, demand increasingly scarce specialized expertise, and create barriers to rapid innovation and feature deployment.AWS Mainframe Modernization with Rocket Software offers organizations a strategic solution to […]

We’re just one month away from AWS re:Invent 2025, where builders, innovators, and transformation leaders from around the world will gather in Las Vegas to explore the future of cloud and AI. This year’s agenda features 15+ technical sessions and workshops on mainframe modernization, where you can learn from AWS experts, explore proven modernization strategies, […]

This post is co-written by Jayadev Sirimamilla from Citibank, along with Sayan Deb Ghosh and Dibyarup Basu from TCS. Introduction: The Active-Active Redis Challenge in Cloud Migration In today’s digital-first world, milliseconds (ms) matter, especially for global financial institutions processing millions of transactions. Customers need their financial transactions to be instantly recorded, reflected, and accessible […]

Introduction Mainframe customers face a myriad of options to modernize. Organizations now face urgent imperatives to modernize due to talent shortages, high and often rising costs, and restrictions on business agility imposed by the legacy environment. Customers also find themselves navigating a multitude of modernization patterns, tools, and strategies. The disposition strategy includes guiding principles […]

As more organizations take their first steps in the cloud migration journey, we’re seeing them facing a common on-premises challenge: applications that are tightly coupled with their datasets. This means that while their applications (running on physical or virtual machines) are ready to be migrated to the cloud using the rehost (“lift-and-shift”) strategy, there may […]

Organizations migrating VMware workloads to AWS without specialized tools face numerous complex challenges that create significant business risk and operational overhead. Teams must spend weeks or months manually mapping dependencies, often missing critical application connections and struggling to determine optimal migration strategies. The traditional approach leaves organizations with limited visibility into compatibility issues, no clear […]