Category: AWS Application Migration Service

No matter how thorough your planning, large-scale migrations will surface edge cases that no runbook anticipates. The difference between a stalled project and a successful one often comes down to how quickly your team can diagnose, resolve the unexpected and whether those lessons feed back into your process. This post distills that operational knowledge into […]

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 […]

Migrating hundreds of servers from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS involves coordinating across teams, accounts, and tools. You need to set up your target environments, plan waves, deploy replication agents, monitor their progress, run tests, and perform cutover, often across multiple AWS accounts. Each step can be challenging on its own, requiring careful planning […]

Building on a momentous launch earlier this year, AWS adds new powerful AI capabilities to AWS Transform for VMware migration agent. AWS Transform for VMware understands your business priorities, adapts to your environments, and gives you greater control at every migration step. The agent orchestrates migration processes including dependency mapping, intelligent wave planning, and network […]

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 […]

NOTE: AWS Application Discovery Service is no longer open to new customers. Alternatively, use AWS Transform discovery tool or partner supported tool which provides similar capabilities. AWS Transform for VMware added new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations. Learn more about AWS Transform’s new experience.  Organizations migrating VMware workloads to AWS without specialized tools […]

Background Q2 is an independent software vendor (ISV) and a leading provider of digital banking and fraud solutions for banks and credit unions. Q2 completed a successful migration of online banking application stacks for over 450 of their financial institution clients to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This strategic move represents one of the most significant […]

Introduction Migrating VMware virtual machines to Amazon EC2 at scale presents significant challenges for organizations seeking to accelerate cloud benefits. AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator simplifies this process by providing a streamlined, automated approach to these complex migrations. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through a step-by-step process showing how Migration Hub Orchestrator effectively manages […]

This post has received input from Jeremy Anderson, Imran Ahmed, Matthew Jones, Ian Korolkovas and ER Hapal from Loyalty New Zealand. In this blog post, we will show you how Loyalty New Zealand executed a move from VMware Cloud on AWS to AWS native services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]

Background Many customers are looking for cost-effective ways to archive their workloads. This workload archiving use case is driven by regulatory compliance across industries like healthcare, finance, and public sector. Also, organizations must archive data to meet industry compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, GxP, GDPR etc. Amazon S3 storage tiers, particularly Amazon S3 Glacier Deep […]