Category: AWS Transform

Overview Many organizations still run Windows Server 2008 workloads that cannot be upgraded before migration due to application dependencies, vendor support constraints, or licensing limitations. When migrating these servers to AWS using AWS Transform MGN, the choice of target Amazon EC2 instance type determines which drivers the guest operating system needs to communicate with the […]

Introduction If you already work with an AI coding agent, you know how much they can do. Tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor read repositories, reason over code, and drive multi-step tasks from an IDE or terminal. They’re excellent general-purpose AI coding agents, built to help with everyday software development tasks. But planning and […]

This post is co-written with Sudeesh Sasidharan and Nick Sciarrilli from OpenAI AWS Transform for mainframe handles the reverse engineering of the critical business logic embedded in your COBOL, PL/I, and JCL codebase, discovering business functions, extracting business rules with source-line traceability, and generating technology-agnostic requirements in a structured format. Modernization at enterprise scale demands […]

Large-scale migrations and modernizations are among the most complex programs an IT organization undertakes. Teams spend weeks building spreadsheets to catalog servers, months writing business cases to justify the move, and years executing migration waves while keeping production systems running. At every stage, the challenge is the same: too much manual work, too many handoffs, […]

Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]

Healthcare organizations migrating regulated workloads to AWS must maintain security and privacy controls at every phase, including replication, testing, and cutover, not just after workloads reach production. This post shows how to layer HIPAA controls onto the proven multi-account AWS Transform MGN (formerly AWS Application Migration Service) migration architecture using AWS Resource Access Manager, covering encrypted private replication, audit continuity, and evidence collection.  […]

Introduction Network design takes real effort in any migration. You need to map source network segments to VPCs, plan subnets across Availability Zones, translate firewall rules into security groups, and configure route tables that keep traffic flowing, a challenge the AWS Transform – Migrations network migration agent solves for you. You upload exports from well-known […]

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Okta Workforce Identity ensures that the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people involved in enterprise migration programs all work inside a single platform. That platform is governed by the same access controls and security policies that your organization already enforces, making it essential for running migrations at scale. AWS […]

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Entra ID ensures that the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people involved in enterprise migration programs, from application owners and infrastructure engineers to business analysts and program managers, all work inside a single platform. That platform is governed by the same access controls and security policies your organization already […]

vSphere 8 reaches End of General Support on October 11, 2027 – a deadline for every VMware customer. This blog gives AWS Partners and customers a licensing-accurate framework to turn the Broadcom VCF renewal into a self-funding migration to AWS, with a real 1,247 VM customer engagement that delivered 56% annual savings.