Category: Migration Solutions

Mainframe systems are being utilized by companies worldwide since the 1950s to operate their core business applications and operations. In the digital transformation era, businesses are increasingly transferring mainframe data and migrating their workloads into AWS. Moreover, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the modernization of mainframe systems due to remote access issues, scalability […]

In Mergers and Acquisitions, the need to understand and manage technical diversity and migration readiness is paramount to ensure cohesion and continued success for the combined organization. This blog post discusses some of the considerations in this space and highlights existing AWS Mechanisms that can help organizations through this process across three phases: Assess, Mobilize, […]

According to Reuters , there are 220 billion lines of code in customers’ production environments running Cobol and other legacy languages. Customers are looking to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. These advantages help them to increase their agility, their capacity to innovate, and to benefit from the continual trends […]

Introduction For organizations moving to the cloud, fully embracing its benefits is not straightforward. Even with strong management buy-in and approved business cases, executional challenges are common. Do the below challenges resonate with what you are facing now in your cloud journey? No single-threaded owner of cloud initiatives, impacting velocity of decision-making Unable to effectively […]

Customers want to begin their cloud migration journey, but taking that first step and starting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) may sound like a complex set of tasks. This post shows how easy it is to move your first workload to AWS using AWS Migration Hub’s features. AWS Migration Hub provides a central location to […]

Many enterprises use frameworks such as “The 7 R’s” to formulate their migration strategy and approach when embarking on a large-scale cloud migration. These frameworks are great at conceptually capturing “how” to migrate applications (e.g., rehost vs. refactor), but they don’t take into account “what” the target state post-migration should look like or help you […]

Mainframe applications often execute business critical functions which have to be resilient, scalable, and cost efficient. When migrating and modernizing these applications with AWS, it is important to design an application and infrastructure architecture meeting the performance requirements while optimizing the cost and satisfying availability and scalability needs. This applies to both online and batch […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization service delivers features and value across the entire mainframe application migration, modernization, execution, and operation lifecycle. The service enables two patterns – Re-platforming and Automated Refactoring. These are popular mainframe modernization patterns because they provide business and technical benefits in the short term with a predictable timeline and cost. The Micro Focus […]

AWS License Manager helps reduce the risk of noncompliance by providing independent software vendors (ISVs) with a centralized AWS account and built-in controls to ensure only approved users and workloads can consume licenses. ISVs can use License Manager to manage and distribute software licenses to end users with and without AWS accounts. As an issuer, […]

Companies and organizations are moving data and technology infrastructure to AWS to modernize their applications and gain access to cloud services. The move results in lower costs, increased productivity, and reduced downtime. Some customers are migrating data to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to take advantage of AWS AI and ML services, while others […]