Migration & Modernization
Category: Learning Levels
Simplify application migrations to AWS with Elastic Beanstalk
Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces a new deployment mode that manages multiple applications on shared infrastructure that AWS creates, operates, and upgrades for you. Whether you provide source code, a Dockerfile, or a prebuilt container image, Elastic Beanstalk takes care of building and deploying your application. It also configures networking, autoscaling, and observability. You manage […]
Sustaining migration velocity through structured operational 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 […]
Maintaining HIPAA compliance when migrating with AWS Transform MGN
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. […]
Mass-migrating AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to migrate a fleet of AI agents from Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime using a pattern-first approach and parallel AI subagents. We migrated 20 agents from the open-source HCLS Agents Toolkit in approximately 2.5 hours of wall-clock time, across three phases: establishing a migration template, running parallel […]
A year of expanding choice for VMware customers on AWS
A little over a year ago, we made Amazon EVS generally available. It was a milestone for customers running VMware workloads who wanted more options in the cloud, while keeping the investments they’d already made in their people, tooling, and operational workflows. With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on Amazon EC2 […]
Everyone Adopted AI. Why Is Tech Debt Still Growing? And Two Moves To Close The Gap.
Most enterprise engineering organizations have deployed AI tooling broadly across teams. The per-team productivity gains are real. But end-to-end improvement hasn’t followed. Backlogs aren’t shrinking. Cycle times haven’t compressed. Tech debt is still growing. The tools aren’t broken. The problem is structural: each team accelerated independently, and the spaces between them are now the entire […]
Increase your cluster density with Memory Tiering in Amazon Elastic VMware Service
Increasing your cluster density by using Memory Tiering within the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) can help drive down the costs of your AWS infrastructure. Amazon EVS now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 . In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Memory Tiering was introduced, which is a new feature within ESX […]
Disaster Recovery for VMware Workloads on Amazon EVS
Many organizations run business-critical workloads on VMware, and most know that a single outage can disrupt operations, impact customers, and put revenue and reputation at risk. Disaster recovery (DR) is the solution: a secondary environment ready to take over when the primary site goes down. But building one has traditionally meant heavy upfront investment, long […]
Amazon EVS with NSX Federation for Disaster Recovery and Multi-site Networking
Introduction Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports NSX Federation, giving you a powerful new option for enterprise-scale networking, disaster recovery, and multi-site networking when running VMware workloads on AWS. NSX Federation is a VMware networking capability that connects multiple NSX environments under a single Global Manager control plane. It extends overlay networking, security […]
Automating FSx for NetApp ONTAP Mounts with SSM and MGN Post-Migration
As organizations migrate to AWS at scale, connecting migrated instances to their new storage is a common bottleneck. When workloads move from on-premises NFS servers to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, teams often mount file systems by hand, minutes per instance that add up to weeks across hundreds or thousands of servers. This solution combines […]









