Migration & Modernization

AWS for VMware at re:Invent 2024 Playlist

The dust has settled after another exciting AWS re:Invent and we’ve curated a playlist of on-demand sessions designed to guide you on your VMware to AWS migration. This playlist features expert-led educational breakout sessions, real-world customer stories, and AWS solutions deep dives to help you can confidently navigate your IT transformation. Learn how to unlock […]

Unlocking Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 1: Assess – Explore Cost Components)

Unlocking Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 1: Assess – Explore Cost Components)

Many AWS customers performing large-scale migrations opt for a Rehost migration approach as way to quickly unlock initial cost savings. The Rehost pattern serves as a high-velocity migration pattern to move to cloud. However, this pattern also negates the cost advantages of the cloud if proper cost optimization strategies and controls are not implemented throughout […]

AWS Blu Age Code Maintainability

AWS Blu Age Code Maintainability

In this blog post, we outline the criteria for evaluating code maintainability and explain how AWS Blu Age transforms mainframe applications into maintainable object-oriented Java. AWS Blu Age allows customers to transform mainframe applications into Java Spring. This transformation not only remediates technology concerns, but enables business transformation. Without Java applications that can be readily […]

No Internet? No Problem: Mastering AWS MGN in Isolated Environments

In today’s cloud-driven world, migrating applications is often as simple as a few clicks. But what happens when you face a fortress-like environment where servers are running in an isolated environment with no internet like islands in a digital ocean? This is the reality for many organizations with high-security requirements, where even a simple task […]

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

During a cloud transformation journey, one of the biggest challenges you may face is not the adoption of the technology itself, but rather the ability to create a culture that encourages continuous growth, improvement, and learning. This change in culture is especially important in cloud environments. It creates benefits such as finding faster value in […]

Modernizing and scaling a tightly coupled legacy .Net application on AWS

Modernizing and scaling a tightly coupled legacy .NET application on AWS

AWS collaborated with an industrial company to modernize a legacy .NET Framework application using an Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) program. In this blog, we will explore the EBA process, and the related technical approach. This approach helped our customer modernize a legacy .NET Framework application that resulted in an improved performance by 16.5x while also reducing […]

Simplify mainframe modernization using Amazon Q Developer generative AI agents

AWS just announced new generative AI–powered transformation capabilities of Amazon Q Developer for large-scale assessment and modernization of mainframe applications. Q Developer provides an objective-driven approach powered by autonomous generative AI agents to accelerate mainframe application modernization. It allows customers to define high-level goals and have Q Developer orchestrate the tools and streamline human actions to […]

Automating Tasks in AWS Migration Hub Journeys with AWS Migration Hub Automation

We are pleased to announce the integration of AWS Migration Hub Automation with AWS Migration Hub Journeys in public preview. Now, you have the ability to automate tasks in a Migration Hub Journey using Migration Hub Automation. These AWS Migration Hub features work together to automate common migration tasks and orchestrate end-to-end migration processes. By […]

Introducing AWS Migration Hub Automation, a new capability accelerating cloud migrations

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 […]

Exporting network configuration data with Import/Export for NSX

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 […]