Migration & Modernization

Category: Customer Solutions

Featured graphic for capacity-based AWS Transform MGN replication server right-sizing with dry-run review and controlled upgrades.

Right-Size AWS Transform MGN Replication Servers

Migration teams need a consistent way to right-size AWS Transform MGN replication servers when a wave includes many source servers. The challenge grows when source servers range from small systems to workloads with several tebibytes of provisioned disk capacity. AWS Transform MGN, formerly AWS Application Migration Service, uses lightweight Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) […]

High-throughput enterprise-scale document migration on AWS

Migrating hundreds of millions of documents to the cloud is a defining enterprise challenge – data loss, downtime, or compliance gaps break traditional approaches. Here’s how we built a system on AWS that migrated 800 million documents with configurable parallelism, self-healing, and integrity validation. When migrating at this scale, traditional approaches quickly break down. Manual […]

HALO by First Student: How AWS and AI-powered solutions are shaping the future of student transportation

HALO by First Student: How AWS and AI-powered solutions are shaping the future of student transportation

Introduction If you’re managing student transportation for a school district, you’re navigating increasingly diverse student needs alongside rising expectations from families who want real-time visibility into their student’s journey. At the same time, you must deliver consistent, reliable service in a complex operating environment where disruptions can quickly impact safety, service reliability and community trust. […]

Sustaining migration velocity through structured operational handoffs

Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]

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 […]

Everyone Adopted AI. Why Is Tech Debt Still Growing? And Two Moves To Close The Gap.

Most enterprise engineering organizations have deployed AI tooling broadly across teams. The per-team productivity gains are real. But end-to-end improvement hasn’t followed. Backlogs aren’t shrinking. Cycle times haven’t compressed. Tech debt is still growing. The tools aren’t broken. The problem is structural: each team accelerated independently, and the spaces between them are now the entire […]

Accelerate VMWare Migrations

Accelerate VMware migration to AWS with Experience-Based Acceleration

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 […]

How to Migrate from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 Using Agentless AWS DataSync

Summary Migrating data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon Simple Storage Service a common requirement for organizations consolidating on AWS or adopting multi-cloud storage strategies. AWS DataSync makes this agentless migration simple — no VMs to deploy, no agents to manage. Whether you’re consolidating storage on AWS, reducing cross-cloud egress costs, or unlocking AWS-native analytics […]

How ExxonMobil reduced cloud costs with an AWS OLA

For energy companies like ExxonMobil, cloud costs rise as systems grow harder to manage and resources go underutilized. As the largest U.S. based oil and gas company by revenue, ExxonMobil operates a complex mix of on-premises and cloud workloads where infrastructure provisioned for reliability often costs more than it should. To address this, ExxonMobil conducted […]