Migrate smarter. Modernize faster. Innovate continuously.

Discover why migrating your workloads and applications to AWS is a game-changer. This track will guide you through the tools and programs that simplify your migration journey, helping you build a robust cloud architecture that supports your IT strategies, regional expansion, and disaster recovery plans.

Accelerate your business transformation with AWS Cloud

Migrating to AWS presents a powerful opportunity to transform your organization, unlock new capabilities, and drive business growth while reducing total cost of ownership, increasing application performance, and enhancing security. Learn how AWS enables organizations to modernize their IT infrastructure, launch their Generative AI journey, and drive business transformation initiatives.

Cigna's cloud transformation journey with AWS

In this session, you’ll hear directly from Cigna about how challenges with their legacy pharmacy applications led them to embark on a journey to the cloud, in order to provide a modern, secure, and resilient solution capable of making intelligent decisions, delivering real-time statuses, and tracking patient therapy journeys. Cigna’s IT Principal will discuss how the organization addressed these challenges by adopting AWS and modernized their applications to become more agile, secure, and reliable. You’ll learn how AWS solutions have positioned Cigna to deliver innovation and enhanced user experiences for its patients and providers, while laying the foundations of generative AI to drive greater value in the future.

Migrating and optimizing workloads at scale on AWS

Are you looking to migrate and optmize your workloads while ensuring a smooth and successful migration? In this session, we'll discuss best practice migration paths, migration assessments, and how AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) can empower your organization to migrate, modernize, and improve applications at scale, leveraging the agility and scalability of AWS Cloud. We'll also introduce AWS Migration Hub Journeys - a comprehensive service designed to streamline planning, execution, and tracking of your migration journey, integrated with AWS Prescriptive Guidance to de-risk your migration.

How Presidio helped Q2 increase efficiency and innovation on AWS

With a long-standing partnership helping amplify Q2’s success in the private datacenter, Presidio was the clear choice consulting partner to help Q2 migrate its largest revenue-generating product – its core digital banking platform – to AWS. Q2 initially planned for a manual migration, due to concerns about potential for costly downtime and their highly complex application environment, but this would not allow Q2 to meet their tight migration deadline. Enter the custom Presidio-built tool, the ‘Q2 Migration Manager' (Q2MM) - an automated, parallel migration platform. In the proof of concept, Presidio migrated 2,000+ customer containers for initial testing, using AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding for cost efficiency and project acceleration. This resulted in a 95% migration success rate, reducing migration time per container from two hours to 14 minutes, and optimized manual intervention by 96.3%.

Architecting resilience to support regional expansion and disaster recovery

In today's dynamic landscape, expanding into new regions and safeguarding operations against disruptions are paramount for enabling strategic growth opporunities and meeting evolving customer demands. In this session, we'll explore architecting hybrid cloud or multi-region deployments, data replication strategies, and implementing disaster recovery plans using AWS. Empower your business to drive your organization's regional expansion while ensuring business continuity in an ever-changing business landscape.

Migrating to AWS from other cloud service providers (CSPs)

In this customer panel, you’ll learn how Box, Inc., a cloud-based cloud content management platform, and Forte, a SaaS-based fitness application, are migrating their key workloads from other CSPs to AWS, in order to increase reliability, performance and security. Leaders from Box and Forte will share considerations and decision drivers, details about their projects and migration paths, and best practices to prepare for potential challenges. You’ll also hear about the benefits they expect to see from migrating to AWS and how they plan to maximize ROI.

How do you modernize your legacy business apps in the cloud?

Core business applications, such as Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server, SAP, VMware-based applications, and mainframe systems, are critical to your organization's operations. In this session, learn best practices for migrating these legacy applications to AWS and overcome any challenges. Also watch our experts share a demo on how you can migrate VMware virtual machine (VM) to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using the (Application Migration Service).

Modernize your existing applications and infrastructure into higher-value cloud-native services. This track shows you how to accelerate value delivery, improve reliability, and leverage modern infrastructure, containers, and serverless technologies to stay ahead of the curve.

Pathways to modernize your application portfolio

To fully realize the benefits of cloud, organizations must prioritize modernizing their applications and aligning them with cloud-native architectures. Learn about various modernization pathways available on AWS including, moving to cloud-native, replacing legacy systems with open source alternatives, adopting containers, or leveraging fully managed services in the cloud to increase reliability, security, and scalability. Discover the benefits of building new applications with a modern cloud operational model that leverages modern DevOps to empower a cultural shift towards producing modern applications at scale.

SoftServe: A roadmap for modernization success

Modernizing applications is crucial for organizations to stay competitive, improve operational efficiency, and deliver superior customer experiences. In this session, AWS partner SoftServe will share two customer use cases highlighting their modernization solutions, SoftServe's Application Modernization Platform (SAMP) and AWS .NET Modernization Framework. Learn how AdvancedMD assessed a monolithic application, prepared a modernization business case, and developed a pilot in under 3 weeks, accelerating their modernization journey and delivering 40% cloud cost savings and decreased development costs. You'll also hear about SonicWall's Shared Services Platform (SSP) and learn best practices for building SSPs that allow developers to rapidly modernize applications, boost ROI through shorter time-to-market, increase developer velocity and operational efficiency, and launch innovations up to 20x faster. Join this session to unlock your applications' potential and grow your business.

Cost optimization at scale: Architectural and operational best practices 

Driven by a vision to innovate faster, Box knew they needed to modernize their applications and adopt cloud-native architectural patterns to fully realize the benefits of running on AWS. AWS collaborated with Box to deploy architectural best practices around data migration, storage, and compute services and modern DevOps practices. The result? Box was able to innovate faster, reduce operational costs, and improve application reliability and delivery, resulting in over $2.23 million in annual savings.

In this session, you will learn how Box used AWS services and cloud-native architecture to drive operational excellence and cost optimization. We’ll uncover best practices for optimizing architecture on AWS to improve efficiency while reducing spend. We’ll also share how the Box FinOps team leverages AWS tools to maximize cost visibility, enable accurate forecasting, and align cloud investments with strategic business goals.

The Hartford: A path to enhancing business outcomes with modernization

It’s not just the digital native businesses that are innovating on AWS. Join us to hear how The Hartford, founded in 1810, adopted a modernization-first mindset leveraging the cloud as a springboard for innovation and business growth.

How do you embrace modern cloud architectures after migration?

Containerization brings many benefits such as environment consistency, operational efficiency, fine-grained scalability, and improved security posture. Learn how AWS services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) enable you to run and manage containerized applications with ease. We'll also dive into how AWS Fargate enables you to run containers without provisioning or managing servers and how these technologies can help you achieve faster time-to-market, improved scalability, and reduced operational overhead.

Modernizing applications with containers and serverless

As organizations look to increase the pace of innovation, get more value out of their data, and build new customer experiences, they need to modernize the way they build and operate applications. Modern applications allow organizations to innovate faster while reducing risk, accelerating time to market, and lowering total cost of ownership. We'll take a closer look at what's driving modernization initiatives, how they benefit both organizations and stakeholders, the Return on Investment from this undertaking, the strategic benefits and practical considerations of embracing container-based deployments and serverless computing to modernize application architectures, and most importantly, how you can get started today.

Can managed databases accelerate your time to market?

As organizations embrace the cloud, they can offload the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure management to AWS, freeing up resources to focus on their core business objectives. In this session, we'll showcase the powerful managed services offered by AWS, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon DynamoDB and how these services can help you reduce operational complexity, enhance security and compliance, and accelerate your time-to-market.

Step into the future with next-generation cloud-native applications. This track teaches you how to utilize modular architecture, Serverless and Container technologies, and AWS’s powerful generative AI tools to achieve unparalleled agility, performance, and security. Embrace new operational models and build for what’s next.

Build modern applications on AWS

Modern applications are the driving force behind many successful organizations today. How these applications are developed and operated can significantly impact pace of innovation, development and maintenance costs, and application performance, providing a competitive edge. Developing modern applications involves building with the latest technologies and techniques that support faster innovation, improved performance, security, reliability, and lower total cost of ownership. In this session, explore how AWS can help you build and operate modern applications.

Containers or Serverless Functions - When to choose what?

In the evolution of cloud computing, containers have become a pivotal technology for building modern applications. They provide a robust way for packaging, deploying and operating applications, with Kubernetes emerging as a leading orchestrator. On the other hand, Serverless functions provide a streamlined, event-driven model that abstracts infrastructure management entirely. In this session we'll explore the fundamental differences in architecture, scalability, and operational characteristics between these technologies. By investigating real-world scenarios we'll gain insights into choosing the right approach to build modern applications based on workload requirements, deployment scenarios, and operations. Lastly, we'll explore synergies between these technologies, demonstrating how they can be combined to leverage the strengths of both.

Migrating Mojio: From Azure to AWS with OpsGuru

Organizations are looking for guidance on cloud-native architecture, building modern applications, and experimenting with generative AI. In this session, you’ll learn more from AWS partner OpsGuru about methodologies, services, and programs to migrate critical applications and explore the potential of generative AI. Join us in this technical session to explore how OpsGuru, leveraging its Clear Path Forward and Cloud Launchpad methodologies, successfully migrated Mojio’s complex application stack from Azure to AWS. Mojio, a connected car platform, faced the challenge of transitioning from Azure-specific services like Service Fabric and CosmosDB to AWS while aiming to reduce cloud services expenses by 10-15%. This session will delve into the intricacies of migrating critical IoT workloads that handle an average of 2 billion device messages daily with stringent SLAs. Learn about the challenges faced, the solutions implemented, and the business impact of this significant cloud migration project. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for cloud migrations, including using AWS Migration Acceleration Program, securing environments, and ensuring seamless transition and operational excellence.

Build production-ready generative AI applications

Navigating the complexities of Generative AI (GenAI) is made simpler with serverless technologies and API-driven approaches to Large Language Models (LLMs). This session will showcase how leveraging Amazon Kendra with Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AWS Step Functions can streamline GenAI application development. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how Amazon Bedrock simplifies interacting with LLMs. By the end, you’ll understand how these tools offer a straightforward path to creating effective and targeted GenAI applications.

How Guru scales AI workflows for tax & insurance on Bedrock and Lambda

Guru's AI platform for tax workflows uses AWS to offer accurate, scalable, private AI. Learn how Bedrock, Lambda, and Step Functions power real business solutions.

How Capital One optimizes productivity and savings by going serverless

Capital One has embraced going Serverless on AWS to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and improve developer productivity. In this session, you'll learn how they migrated away from managing infrastructure to building modern Serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, and the Serverless Application Model (SAM).

We'll share how serverless helped save significant developer time by eliminating infrastructure management tasks and discuss the operational efficiency and speed gained by instantly scaling serverless applications. You'll see real examples of how Capital One took advantage of pay-per-use billing to reduce application costs by up to 90%.

Walk away with practical strategies to embrace serverless architectures and cloud-native approaches to accelerate your application development, reduce costs, and enhance developer productivity. Join us to see how going serverless on AWS has been a game-changer in accelerating Capital One's digital transformation.

Drive innovation and results with high performance computing on AWS

The convergence of High-Performance Computing (HPC), cloud, and AI is enabling AWS customers to drive innovation at an unprecedented pace. This powerful combination allows organizations to leverage virtually unlimited compute capacity, accelerated computing, high-performance storage, advanced networking, and orchestration services for seamlessly running complex simulations and AI/ML workloads at scale. In this session, we will explore how customers across various industries, from scientific research and engineering to healthcare and finance, are harnessing the convergence of HPC, cloud, and AI on AWS to accelerate time-to-insights, optimize performance, and drive innovation.