Category: Best Practices

Introduction Every successful cloud migration starts with a solid plan. AWS provides comprehensive guidance on migration strategy to help organizations assess their readiness, choose the right approach, and execute migrations efficiently and securely. But here’s what often gets overlooked: how many of those detailed plans include equally thorough rollback strategies — a deliberate, pre-planned path […]

Most cloud engineers today still spend time chasing pages, triaging incidents, and scaling infrastructure manually. That is about to change. AI agents are beginning to take over this operational burden. Engineers who understand this shift early will be the ones who define how it unfolds. Written as a fictional log entry from 2031, this blog […]

When Software Stops Waiting for Us For years, teams responsible for building and governing cloud platforms (such as the Cloud Center of Excellence) helped enterprises move faster without sacrificing governance or reliability. They standardized architecture, created guardrails, and turned cloud into a business accelerator rather than a technical experiment. Then software began to change. First, […]

This case study demonstrates how Fanatics Commerce successfully planned a large-scale migration of 1,800 servers across five data centers to AWS, achieving projected 48% infrastructure cost savings while maintaining global operational continuity. Fanatics Commerce (fanatics.com), the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operates a tech-powered, omnichannel platform that creates exceptional fan experiences across retail channels. […]

Executive Summary Across every major software category, cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leaders aren’t just competing—they’re redefining markets. McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook highlights that enterprise cloud adoption continues to accelerate, while traditional IT spending on on-premises systems steadily declines. Gartner forecasts that public cloud services will grow 21.3% in 2026, fueled by continued migration and modernization […]

Introduction Organizations are modernizing their mission-critical systems on AWS to drive competitive advantage and meet evolving market demands. The drivers are clear with benefits such as increased scalability, improved application performance and reliability, accelerated time to market for new features, and advance AI/ML capabilities. Unlike traditional upgrades, application modernization is a fundamental shift in how […]

Introduction In this blog we outline options for online and offline data transfer scenarios to AWS. Customers’ migration goals, available network bandwidth speed and reliability, and size of data to be imported, can then guide the choice on which service to use. AWS DataSync is a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data […]

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations face mounting pressure to modernize their legacy systems while maintaining operational excellence and controlling costs. Traditional approaches to cloud modernization often require weeks of manual assessment, extensive documentation efforts, and significant development resources—creating bottlenecks that delay time-to-market and increase project costs. However, the emergence of AI-powered development assistants […]

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 […]

Introduction Migrating VMware workloads to the cloud presents numerous challenges for organizations. From maintaining application dependencies and preserving IP addresses to managing downtime windows and ensuring consistent performance, the complexity of these migrations can often slow down cloud adoption initiatives. Network reconfigurations, application testing, and maintaining business continuity throughout the migration process add additional layers […]