Category: Thought Leadership

A month ago, I shared our learnings from AWS Transform’s first year—4.5 billion lines of code processed, 1.6 million hours saved for customers. We’ve continued to scale rapidly: now at 7 billion lines of code and an estimated 2 million hours saved. But it’s not just the numbers. I’m even more excited to share several […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Large-scale cloud migration planning often requires coordinating multiple teams, gathering accurate technical information, and tracking schedules against migration progress across hundreds of applications. Migration planning teams often struggle with data collection, parsing scattered data across spreadsheets and emails. Application owners face repetitive questionnaires and changing timelines. And migration engineers require detailed infrastructure assessments to avoid […]

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 […]

Introduction Our Cloud Value Framework series explores how AWS delivers business value across five pillars: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. These pillars focus on benefits after workloads are running in the cloud. Strategic migration planning helps organizations achieve these outcomes faster. But this journey requires investment in the Cost of Change: […]

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, […]

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 […]