Migration & Modernization

Category: Migration Solutions

When to use what- A guide to AWS Transform interfaces

When to use what: A guide to AWS Transform interfaces

You just got assigned 40 applications to migrate. Three teams, two time zones, a mix of .NET services and legacy monoliths, and leadership wants a status update every Friday. Where do you start? With AWS Transform, the answer depends on what you’re doing right now, not which interface is “correct.” There isn’t one. There are […]

Discover and migrate Microsoft Hyper-V workloads with AWS Transform

Introduction For organizations running Microsoft Hyper-V on premises, migrating workloads to AWS offers a path to reduce infrastructure costs, eliminate licensing complexity, and unlock cloud-native capabilities. Yet the first weeks of a migration effort are rarely spent migrating. In any environment that has grown over years, whatever the platform, systems inventory and architectural documentation lags […]

Migrate faster with AWS Transform and your AI coding agent

Introduction If you already work with an AI coding agent, you know how much they can do. Tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor read repositories, reason over code, and drive multi-step tasks from an IDE or terminal. They’re excellent general-purpose AI coding agents, built to help with everyday software development tasks. But planning and […]

Why Legacy Infrastructure Blocks AI Success

When AI initiatives stall, the instinct is to look at the model, the data, or the team. But more often, the constraint is underneath all of those — in the infrastructure itself. And running in the cloud doesn’t automatically remove that constraint. If the architecture was designed around pre-AI assumptions, it carries the same limitations […]

Automate MAP Tagging at Scale with Amazon Nova and AWS Serverless

Learn how to automate AWS MAP tagging at scale using Amazon Nova and serverless architecture. Deploy a self-service solution that generates correct tag values, CLI commands, and discovers untagged resources in ~5–8 minutes. | 31 August 2026 | Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), Generative AI. Introduction MAP tagging determines whether […]

Increase your cluster density with Memory Tiering in Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Increase your cluster density with Memory Tiering in Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Increasing your cluster density by using Memory Tiering within the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) can help drive down the costs of your AWS infrastructure. Amazon EVS now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 . In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Memory Tiering was introduced, which is a new feature within ESX […]

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS Part 4: Post-cutover optimization

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS – Part 4: Post-cutover optimization

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 […]

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS Part 3: Planning and Execution

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS – Part 3: Planning and Execution

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 […]

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS Part 2: Assessment

Migrating and Modernizing Oracle Databases to PostgreSQL on AWS – Part 2: Assessment

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 […]