Migration & Modernization

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of AWS Migration Hub Automation, a new capability within AWS Migration Hub that accelerates and simplifies cloud migrations. Migration Hub Automation enables customers to automate common migration tasks, significantly reducing manual effort and potential for errors. With Migration Hub Automation, customers can now streamline their migration […]

Whether it’s VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) situated on-premises, Import/Export for NSX is a new AWS Open Source tool that you can use to export your VMware NSX configuration into a zipped file. You can then import the zipfile into Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware. Q Developer will […]

In this blog post, we explore how to get started with Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware. Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered assistant for software development that reimagines the experience of software development lifecycle, making it easier and faster to build, secure, manage and optimize applications on AWS, and now migrate and modernize […]

We are excited to announce the public preview of Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for migrating and modernizing VMware workloads. Amazon Q Developer can assist your developers and IT professionals with many different tasks—from coding, testing, and upgrading applications to diagnosing errors, performing security scanning and fixes, optimizing AWS resources, and now migrations and modernization. […]

1. Introduction An AWS Migration Assessment is a complimentary service that helps potential and existing AWS customers carefully plan and prepare for their migration to the AWS cloud. It includes creating a data-driven directional business case for migrating workloads to AWS. AWS Migration Evaluator (ME) is a data collection tool used in these assessments to […]

AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS) discovers servers in preparation for a migration to AWS. ADS performs discovery via importing data from existing sources or by deploying Discovery Agents or the Agentless Collector which collect server performance and network communication data. This data is sent to AWS Migration Hub where the servers can be organized into […]

Introduction Migrating Kubernetes clusters can be a complex and challenging task, requiring careful planning and execution to ensure a smooth transition. A key aspect of this process is the disposition strategy – the approach taken to determine the fate of the existing cluster and resources as the migration occurs. Effective disposition planning is crucial for […]

AWS and VMware (now part of Broadcom) have been investing and innovating since 2016 to help make it easy for VMware customers to migrate and modernize their VMware-based workloads on AWS to achieve the scalability, agility, and cost benefits of the cloud. In the hundreds of VMware-related conversations we have had over the past year, […]

This article co-authored with: Padmanabha Rao Chillara (The New York Times) Executive Summary Amazon Web Services recommends an incremental journey to the cloud, leveraging fast-paced, tool-based modernization approaches to migrate from the mainframe to AWS and then incrementally optimize workloads over time. The New York Times (The Times) selected an automated refactor approach to migrate […]

Migration Evaluator is a complimentary guided migration assessment service provided by AWS. The assessment can collect data and utilization about your on-premises servers using an agentless collector, or by using your existing data through a manual process. Using that gathered data, Migration Evaluator recommends best-fit Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) server instances for each […]