Category: Migration Solutions

Introduction In this blog post, we cover the post-cutover phase of an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration on Amazon Web Services (AWS), demonstrating how to transform a functional PostgreSQL system into an operationally excellent one. We walk through immediate validation, comprehensive observability, systematic performance optimization, disaster recovery validation, Oracle decommissioning, and the operational excellence foundation, including the continuous […]

Introduction In this blog post, we outline the target architectures and wave-based strategies needed to build functional PostgreSQL environments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), using Zulon City Insurance (ZCINS), a fictional carrier managing 42 Oracle databases, as a model for a successful transition. Once you have assessed your Oracle estate, as laid out in part […]

Introduction In this blog post, we explore the assessment phase of migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the critical step that transforms your discovery inventory into an actionable migration strategy. After completing discovery of your Oracle estate in Part 1, you face the critical question: what will it take to migrate […]

Introduction In this blog post, we explore the discovery phase of migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the foundational step that determines the success of every migration that follows. This is the first installment of a four-part series covering the Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration journey, from initial discovery through post-migration optimization. Evolving licensing […]

AWS Transform is a collaborative enterprise IT transformation workbench powered by expert agents that accelerate cloud migration, application modernization, and continuous tech debt reduction. On May 14, 2026, AWS announced general availability of the AWS Transform Agent Toolkit Kiro Power, enabling Professional services organizations (e.g., consulting firms delivering cloud migrations), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) embedding […]

Introduction You are about to rebuild a mainframe application that has run your organization for 30 years, and here is what most teams underestimate going in: the rebuild is not the hard part. Knowing what you are replacing is. A mainframe estate holds thousands of business rules. They are spread across legacy languages it was […]

This post is co-written with Reshma Nuggehally, Jai Bagmar and Kanai Lal Dutta from Accenture Background: Organizations running mainframes face a critical challenge: 90% are pursuing cloud modernization, yet organizations have transitioned fewer than 20% of workloads. Rising operating costs, retiring talent, and rigid architectures demand a fundamentally different approach. In this post, we explore how […]

Organizations running migration projects don’t always operate in a single shared language. Migration teams span geographies, and the people closest to the workloads are often the ones who understand dependencies, business context, and operational risk. They need to work in the language they’re most comfortable with. Today, we’re announcing local language support for the AWS Transform migrations […]

Introduction Consider a team with over 400 servers to migrate, dozens of applications with varying dependencies, and multiple teams waiting on cutover windows. Every migration is unique, yet the challenges remain consistent. Teams struggle with manual tracking through spreadsheets, human errors in repetitive tasks like agent installation and DNS updates, decentralized orchestration across disconnected consoles, […]

Introduction If your organization runs VMware workloads on-premises or in another cloud and needs to migrate to AWS without disrupting operations, Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) provides a proven path to do it fast. Using a structured three-day EBA workshop with AWS, organizations have moved multiple critical applications to AWS in days. Their engineers built hands-on migration […]