Migration & Modernization

Mainframe databases have served as the foundational infrastructure of enterprise computing for decades, powering mission-critical applications across various commercial and government sectors with their robust transaction processing and data management capabilities. In part 1 of this blog series, we explored the fundamental components of mainframe systems, focusing specifically on compute and storage capabilities. In this […]

This blog post is the third in a four-part series to provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]

This blog post is the second in a four-part series to provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]

Cloud transformation requires balancing centralized control with decentralized flexibility across both strategy and execution dimensions, with organizations typically needing to align their approach with specific business goals while remaining adaptable.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]