Migration & Modernization
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Speed to Value: Why Migrate-First Still Wins at Scale
Introduction Lift-and-shift has a reputation problem. Ask any enterprise architect and you’ll get a wince. “We just moved our problems to the cloud.” That criticism has a grain of truth – but only when migration is treated as the end goal. The real question is whether it’s the right first step. Often, it is. Here’s […]
Classifying Your AI migration to Plan for Success
An AI migration means different things to different teams, and that ambiguity is expensive. Are you migrating with AI, to AI, or from AI? The answer shapes your staffing plan, governance model, and timeline, because each motion carries a different risk profile and demands a different set of skills. Gartner found that by the end […]
Replacing Netflix Conductor with AWS Step Functions: What We Learned
Introduction Accelerate your business transformation by migrating from Netflix Conductor to AWS Step Functions. This strategic move offers significant benefits: Cost Reduction: Eliminate infrastructure management costs and take advantage of AWS’s pay-per-use model. Increased Reliability: Benefit from AWS’s fully managed service with a 99.9% availability SLA. Enhanced Scalability: Scale to up to 1 million open […]
How AWS Is Using Agentic AI To Reinvent Infrastructure Modernization
Traditional VMware migrations have long suffered from fragmentation and inflexibility. Enterprises had to cobble together disconnected tools for discovery, planning, network configuration, and rehosting, each requiring specialized expertise and lengthy manually orchestrated handoffs. These rigid, rules-based tools can’t adapt to each customer’s unique environment, resulting in compounding costs, expensive customizations, and timelines that stretch into […]
Consistent Code Modernization at Scale with AWS Transform Custom Knowledge Items
Introduction AWS Transform Custom (ATX) automates code modernization at scale. What makes it different from running an AI coding assistant on each repo is that it learns. Each execution captures patterns, fixes, and edge cases as reusable knowledge, so transformations get faster and more reliable with every run. If you’ve got hundreds of Java 8 […]
Amazon EVS expands support options with Broadcom
Introduction When you run VMware workloads on AWS, getting the right support quickly matters. Today, we’re sharing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) customers can now contact AWS or Broadcom for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) support. With this change, you can connect directly to the support organization best positioned to resolve your specific issue, […]
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 […]
One year. 4.5 billion lines of code. 1.6 million hours saved. Here’s what we learned.
A year ago, we launched AWS Transform with one mission: modernize the world’s infrastructure and applications. 12 months in, here’s what 4.5+ billion lines of code processed, hundreds of thousands of servers migrated, and saving customers 1.6+ million hours taught us about migration, modernization, and why this work cannot wait. Why this matters more than […]
Automating EC2 License Migration from AWS Marketplace to BYOL
Managing software licenses in the cloud can be complex, especially when working at scale and looking to leverage licenses you already own. Many customers run Amazon EC2 instances with operating systems like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Fortinet. These operating systems include licensing costs bundled into the hourly instance […]








