Category: Customer Solutions

Introduction: The Missed Opportunity in the Cloud Consider companies that simply moved their existing business models to digital platforms without reimagining the underlying processes. Many became irrelevant while competitors transformed entire industries. Yet this mirrors what many organizations do today. They migrate legacy processes to the cloud without reimagining them. AWS defines seven migration strategies […]

This post is co-written with Evan Doyle and Blake Sherwood from Smarsh Customer Overview As a global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, Smarsh enables companies to transform oversight into foresight by surfacing business-critical signals across all digital communications. The company serves a global client base that spans 18 of the top 20 banks, […]

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 […]

The Missing Link in Cloud Modernization: A Trusted CMDB Walk into any IT organization and mention the words Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and you’ll usually get one of two reactions: either a hopeful nod about its promise, or a sigh about its failure. A CMDB maps IT assets—or configuration items (CIs)—such as servers, databases, applications, […]

Layer 2 (L2) network extensions play a critical role in hybrid cloud and data center migrations by providing seamless connectivity between on-premises and cloud environments. They allow virtual machines (VMs) to keep their IP and MAC addresses, ensuring application continuity during migrations or hybrid deployments. Three prominent solutions for L2 extensions are VMware HCX, Nutanix […]

“Organizations that successfully modernize achieve 42% faster IT resource provisioning and an 86% increase in weekly feature deployments.” – AWS Business Value of Cloud Modernization Study, March 2025 Other benefits of modernization include: 130% more databases managed per administrator after adopting Managed Databases 17% faster time to insights after adopting Managed Analytics 83% increase in […]

Introduction In today’s digital marketplace, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unprecedented challenges in understanding and engaging their customers. While enterprise organizations deploy sophisticated customer data platforms (CDP), SMBs often struggle with fragmented customer views that limit their ability to deliver personalized experiences. This challenge is acute as customers expect consistent, personalized interactions across all […]

This post is co-written with Vihang Shah from Moody’s. Introduction Managing change requests across hundreds of applications while maintaining operational excellence presents a complex challenge for growing SaaS companies. Manual processes that once worked for dozens of deployments become unsustainable bottlenecks when scaled to enterprise levels. A solution to these bottlenecks is serverless automation that […]

Introduction Today’s evolving technology ecosystem demands a new approach to technical debt reduction. While traditionally viewed as a software development concern or cloud migration challenge, technical debt represents the cumulative impact of every technology decision, infrastructure design, security practice, and postponed improvement across the entire IT portfolio. This blog post provides a pragmatic approach to […]

This post is co-written with James Chao, Distinguished Software Engineer from Turnitin. In this post we discuss how Turnitin migrated from a monolithic frontend to a micro-frontend architecture built on AWS to support their growth, improved user experience and faster feature releases. We’ll discuss their previous monolithic frontend architecture, the key drivers for an architectural […]