AWS Public Sector Blog

Morteza Zijerdi

Author: Morteza Zijerdi

Morteza is based in Arlington, Virginia and leads the US Public Sector Cloud Economics team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). During his time at AWS, he has developed more than 200 business cases and contributed to 40-plus enterprise migrations for customers across public sector. He holds an MBA, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

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Mainframe modernization on AWS can help maximize value from $2.4B federal spend on legacy systems

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government’s 10 legacy systems most in need of modernization cost about $337 million a year to operate and maintain, which accounts to a $2.4 billion spend on legacy systems by 2030. Read this blog post to learn how organizations can leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to maximize value as they evaluate their mainframe modernization strategy.