Tag: Large scale migration

In January 2024, we introduced Migration Hub Journeys to guide and accelerate the migration and modernization of applications. Journeys help optimize planning, execution, and tracking through task-based templates with expert guidance, specialized tools, and cross-team collaboration, enabling you to migrate and modernize applications seamlessly. Today, we’re excited to publish new migration journey templates for AWS […]

Cloud migrations and modernization are a lengthy, intricate, and continually evolving processes. Despite this, McKinsey studies indicate that customers are increasing cloud budgets and the number of applications that they plan to migrate. One of the primary complexities of migration and modernization projects are that collaboration with stakeholders can be cumbersome, relying on random ad-hoc […]

Stalled cloud migrations can undermine cloud adoption’s business value. It is therefore important to watch out for early warning signs and take timely corrective action. This blog post looks at five big pitfalls every cloud migration leader should be aware of. The good news is you can spot these issues early and mitigate them to […]

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is AWS’s recommended service for migrations to AWS. It simplifies and expedites migrating your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure platforms to run natively on AWS. Over the last year, we’ve shared with you several major updates to the MGN service, focusing on offering customers more ways […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers initiate large-scale cloud migrations to achieve specific business outcomes. The reasons for migration include consolidating or vacating data centres, adopting a cloud-first strategy, increasing agility and staff productivity, and reducing the total cost of ownership for IT. Using repeatable patterns for migrating workloads are a great way to jumpstart […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization service supports AWS CloudFormation templates to manage environments and applications, allowing customers to leverage best practices of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps. This post defines the architectural improvements fostered by CloudFormation for mainframe applications modernized with AWS cloud. We’ll then cover the benefits of IaC in specific contexts for modernized mainframe applications. We’ll […]

Introduction Large-scale cloud migrations present challenges such as multiple tasks, scaling complexities, manual processes, numerous tools, and stakeholders involvement that could be difficult to integrate at times. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is designed to overcome these challenges for large and complex migrations that require re-hosting (also referred to as “lift and shift” migration). […]

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 […]

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measurements that help you understand how well you’re performing in specific areas. For example, from an incident management perspective, you may measure the mean time to recovery to understand how long it takes to recover following an incident. Large-scale enterprise migration programs (such as vacating a data center or […]