Migration & Modernization
Category: Experience-Based Acceleration
Seamlessly navigate your data center migration by understanding the end-to-end journey
Introduction Data centre migrations are transformational undertakings that touch every aspect of an organization’s IT infrastructure, operations, and potentially its entire business model. Unlike traditional technology upgrades, cloud migrations represent fundamental shifts in how organizations approach computing, storage, security, and technological innovation. Maximizing cloud value while minimizing disruption requires a holistic approach to be taken […]
How Place Exchange transformed their programmatic platform with Graviton and Karpenter on Amazon EKS
This post was co-created with Brian Annis, Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Place Exchange. In the ever-evolving landscape of digital advertising, Place Exchange stands out as a game-changer for out-of-home (OOH) media. As the leading Supply-Side Platform for programmatic OOH, they’ve skillfully bridged the gap between digital and physical advertising realms. Their patented technology […]
Introducing AWS ‘Move to AI’ Modernization Pathway: Transforming Your Application Portfolio with AI
We are excited to announce the launch of ‘Move to AI’ Modernization Pathway. It provides organizations with a structured approach to identify and implement high-impact artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities within their application portfolio. This addition to our comprehensive suite of Modernization Pathways provides an effective way to unlock innovation, automate workflows, and enhance customer experiences. […]
Accelerating to the Cloud: How Stericycle rapidly migrated over 450 servers to Amazon EC2 and other AWS native services
This post is co-written with Matthew Kozlowski from Stericycle, Inc. Discover how a five Person infrastructure team migrated 450+ servers for 24/7 operations, achieving cost savings and efficiency gains. This case study reveals their successful strategy. Stericycle, Inc. has been protecting what matters since 1989. Headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois, this leader in compliance-based solutions serves […]
Streamlining EC2 Updates by Automating AMI Swaps
Introduction Maintaining Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) current within Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) is crucial for ensuring operational efficiency and security. This blog post outlines an automated solution for updating ASGs with the latest golden AMI after code deployments or system patching. By leveraging AWS Step Functions and AWS Backup events, we propose a streamlined process […]
Infomedia Modernizes Automotive Data Solutions with AWS
This post is co-written with Gowtham Dandu from Infomedia Infomedia, an automotive data provider, needed to continuously improve their technology to stay competitive. This post explores how Infomedia leveraged the AWS Modernization Experience-Based Acceleration (ModAx) program, Amazon Q Developer services to migrate and modernize their on-premises solutions to cloud-native, multi-tenant deployments on the AWS platform. […]
Modernizing and scaling a tightly coupled legacy .NET application on AWS
AWS collaborated with an industrial company to modernize a legacy .NET Framework application using an Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) program. In this blog, we will explore the EBA process, and the related technical approach. This approach helped our customer modernize a legacy .NET Framework application that resulted in an improved performance by 16.5x while also reducing […]
Accelerating to the Cloud: BMW ConnectedDrive’s Migration to AWS and Lessons for the Road Ahead
This post is co-written with Dr. Jens Kohl, Dr. Sirko Molau and Sascha Kallin from BMW Group. In this blog, we describe BMW’s migration journey, and share the key lessons learned along the way. We also explain how BMW ensured the digital sovereignty of customer data, user interfaces, and customer-facing functions throughout the migration. We […]