Category: Mainframe Migration

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, […]

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 […]

Introducing AWS CardDemo optional features AWS CardDemo is an open source mainframe application developed by AWS to demonstrate mainframe modernization capabilities. In our previous blog post, Introducing Open Source AWS CardDemo for Mainframe Modernization, we introduced the base version of the application primarily built on COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM and Assembler . Since its launch, […]

AWS strengthens its position in mainframe modernization with innovative AI-powered solutions and proven customer success “AWS offers the broadest portfolio with AWS Blu Age and partner tools. It supports clients with skilled consultants and a wide ecosystem throughout their modernization and cloud optimization for performance, security and compliance.” – Pedro L. Bicudo Maschio, Distinguished Analyst […]

Introduction Mainframe modernization has long been a challenging task for organizations, due to complex legacy codebases of critical applications, shrinking talent pool with mainframe expertise, and increasing need to embrace modern cloud capabilities. AWS Transform for mainframe, a breakthrough solution for modernizing legacy systems that was previewed as ‘Amazon Q Developer transform capability for mainframe’ […]