Migration & Modernization

AWS for mainframe modernization : Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide

We’re just one month away from AWS re:Invent 2025, where builders, innovators, and transformation leaders from around the world will gather in Las Vegas to explore the future of cloud and AI. This year’s agenda features 15+ technical sessions and workshops on mainframe modernization, where you can learn from AWS experts, explore proven modernization strategies, […]

Mastering Multi-Region Resilience and Scalability: Active-Active Design with Amazon ElastiCache Redis

This post is co-written by Jayadev Sirimamilla from Citibank, along with Sayan Deb Ghosh and Dibyarup Basu from TCS. Introduction: The Active-Active Redis Challenge in Cloud Migration In today’s digital-first world, milliseconds (ms) matter, especially for global financial institutions processing millions of transactions. Customers need their financial transactions to be instantly recorded, reflected, and accessible […]

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Modernizing Legacy Applications with Event-Driven Architecture: The Leave-and-Layer Pattern

When your 20-year-old monolithic application needs new features and you can’t afford downtime or risk breaking existing functionality, what do you do? This challenge faces countless organizations running mission-critical legacy systems that power their business but struggle to keep pace with modern requirements. At AWS, we often hear from customers who need to modernize their […]

Taking a comprehensive perspective to mainframe application modernization with a disposition strategy 

Taking a comprehensive perspective to mainframe application modernization with a disposition strategy 

Introduction Mainframe customers face a myriad of options to modernize. Organizations now face urgent imperatives to modernize due to talent shortages, high and often rising costs, and restrictions on business agility imposed by the legacy environment. Customers also find themselves navigating a multitude of modernization patterns, tools, and strategies. The disposition strategy includes guiding principles […]

Decoupling the compute and data layers with AWS MGN, AWS DataSync and Amazon FSx

As more organizations take their first steps in the cloud migration journey, we’re seeing them facing a common on-premises challenge: applications that are tightly coupled with their datasets. This means that while their applications (running on physical or virtual machines) are ready to be migrated to the cloud using the rehost (“lift-and-shift”) strategy, there may […]

Beyond Automation: Why Cloud Reinvention Drives True Business Transformation

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 […]

How Smarsh reduced costs and increased scale migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Amazon EKS

How Smarsh reduced costs and increased scale migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Amazon EKS

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, […]

AWS for VMware: your complete reinvent guide 2025

AWS for VMware: Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide

Discover how to revolutionize your VMware environment with AWS’s latest AI-powered migration tools and modernization solutions. This year’s re:Invent showcases new breakthroughs such as AWS Transform and Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), real-world transformation strategies from industry leaders and guidance to get your digital transformation started. We’ve curated the top VMware-focused sessions that matter […]

Simplify server migration to AWS with AWS Transform for VMware

Simplify server migration to AWS with AWS Transform for VMware

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 […]

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How Q2 is Transforming Digital Banking Through Large-Scale Migration to AWS

Background Q2 is an independent software vendor (ISV) and a leading provider of digital banking and fraud solutions for banks and credit unions. Q2 completed a successful migration of online banking application stacks for over 450 of their financial institution clients to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This strategic move represents one of the most significant […]