Migration & Modernization

This post has received input from Jeremy Anderson, Imran Ahmed, Matthew Jones, Ian Korolkovas and ER Hapal from Loyalty New Zealand. In this blog post, we will show you how Loyalty New Zealand executed a move from VMware Cloud on AWS to AWS native services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]

Background Many customers are looking for cost-effective ways to archive their workloads. This workload archiving use case is driven by regulatory compliance across industries like healthcare, finance, and public sector. Also, organizations must archive data to meet industry compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, GxP, GDPR etc. Amazon S3 storage tiers, particularly Amazon S3 Glacier Deep […]

AWS strengthens its position in mainframe modernization with innovative AI-powered solutions and proven customer success “AWS offers the broadest portfolio with AWS Blu Age and partner tools. It supports clients with skilled consultants and a wide ecosystem throughout their modernization and cloud optimization for performance, security and compliance.” – Pedro L. Bicudo Maschio, Distinguished Analyst […]

Update as of June 18, 2025: Amazon EVS public preview has expanded to include the Europe (Ireland) AWS Region. This post has been updated to reflect the current regional availability. When we introduced Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) at AWS re:Invent 2024, customers were eager to learn more about this new pathway to leverage […]

This post is co-written with Gurvinder Arora and Utkarsh Jain from Impetus LeapLogic™ Technologies. Introduction Impetus LeapLogic™ is a cloud transformation accelerator designed to simplify, automate, and expedite legacy migration to modern cloud ecosystems. It translates workloads from traditional data warehouses, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), BI (Business Intelligence) reports, Hadoop, scheduled batch jobs and […]

AWS offers several generative AI services that transform VMware workload migrations into a streamlined, automated process. By using agentic AI technology, organizations can now accelerate their cloud journey while maintaining operational excellence and reducing risk. AI powered migration tools can assess your on-premises servers in VMWare environments to map complex application dependencies, recommend optimized resource […]

Introduction: This is Part 2 of our three-part series on Good x Practice (GxP) requirements in large-scale migrations. While Part -1 covered GxP assessment, this segment focuses on the mobilization phase of the AWS three-phase migration framework – Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize goals and workstreams. In this blog we introduce a new layered model approach […]

In this blog post, I will show how to migrate an Oracle Rdb database to Mimer SQL running on OpenVMS x86 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the time of this post, Oracle Rdb is only available on VAX, Alpha, and IA-64 platforms. Customers with Oracle Rdb workloads wishing to move to OpenVMS x86 need […]

We are excited to announce the release of the assessment capability of AWS Transform. Migration assessments are an important early step in any organization’s migration journey as they help reduce cost and accelerate migration planning so you can realize migration objectives more quickly. A migration assessment empowers organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint by […]

Introduction Mainframe modernization has long been a challenging task for organizations, due to complex legacy codebases of critical applications, shrinking talent pool with mainframe expertise, and increasing need to embrace modern cloud capabilities. AWS Transform for mainframe, a breakthrough solution for modernizing legacy systems that was previewed as ‘Amazon Q Developer transform capability for mainframe’ […]