Migration & Modernization

Unleashing Innovation: A Retrospective on The New York Times' Mainframe to AWS Migration

Unleashing Innovation: A Retrospective on The New York Times’ Mainframe to AWS Migration

This article co-authored with: Padmanabha Rao Chillara (The New York Times) Executive Summary Amazon Web Services recommends an incremental journey to the cloud, leveraging fast-paced, tool-based modernization approaches to migrate from the mainframe to AWS and then incrementally optimize workloads over time. The New York Times (The Times) selected an automated refactor approach to migrate […]

Enhance your Migration Evaluator business case using Storage Insights and a Storage Assessment

Enhance your Migration Evaluator business case using Storage Insights and a Storage Assessment

Migration Evaluator is a complimentary guided migration assessment service provided by AWS. The assessment can collect data and utilization about your on-premises servers using an agentless collector, or by using your existing data through a manual process. Using that gathered data, Migration Evaluator recommends best-fit Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) server instances for each […]

Guide to migration and modernization sessions at re:Invent 2024

The migration and modernization track at re:Invent 2024 brings together an expansive portfolio of sessions designed to empower attendees to accelerate their cloud journey and drive innovation. Join us for five transformative days of learning opportunities and inspiring migration and modernization stories. From large keynotes by AWS leaders, innovation talks, interactive sessions, and fun activities […]

Accelerating to the Cloud: BMW ConnectedDrive’s Migration to AWS and Lessons for the Road Ahead

This post is co-written with Dr. Jens Kohl, Dr. Sirko Molau and Sascha Kallin from BMW Group. In this blog, we describe BMW’s migration journey, and share the key lessons learned along the way. We also explain how BMW ensured the digital sovereignty of customer data, user interfaces, and customer-facing functions throughout the migration. We […]

Deprecation of AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector

Deprecation of AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end support for AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector (Discovery Connector) effective November 17, 2025. This decision was made to enable focus on the new on-premises discovery tool AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector). This decision stems from customer preference to use agentless collection for […]

AWS for VMware at re:Invent 2024 – Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent is returning to Las Vegas from December 2nd to December 6th, 2024. Join us for five transformative days of learning opportunities and inspiring migration stories that will accelerate your cloud journey and drive innovation. From large keynotes by AWS leaders, innovation talks, interactive sessions, and fun activities such as live music and games […]

Evolving your Cloud capabilities to enable your important business objectives

Evolving your Cloud capabilities to enable your important business objectives

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, cloud has become a cornerstone for business seeking to drive innovation, boost efficiency, and attain strategic goals. As organizations strive to leverage cloud to enable business objectives, continuously evolving cloud capabilities becomes crucial. In this blog we will explain how Amazon Web Services (AWS) empowers your organization to develop a […]

Unleashing the Power of the Cloud with the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF) – Summary (7/7)

Summary Introduction This blog forms part of a series on the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF). The CVF serves as a comprehensive guide to help businesses to evaluate, quantify, and communicate the value of AWS Cloud adoption. It comprises five pillars with this blog focused on summarizing the series. Figure 1: The AWS Cloud Value […]

Unleashing the Power of the Cloud with the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF) – Sustainability (6/7)

Pillar 5: Sustainability Introduction This blog forms part of a series on the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF). The CVF serves as a comprehensive guide to help businesses to evaluate, quantify, and communicate the value of AWS Cloud adoption. It comprises five pillars: Figure 1: The AWS Cloud Value Framework In this blog, we will […]

Unleashing the Power of the Cloud with the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF) – Business Agility (5/7)

Pillar 4: Business Agility Introduction This blog is part of a series on the AWS Cloud Value Framework (CVF). The CVF serves as a comprehensive guide to help businesses to evaluate, quantify, and communicate the value of AWS Cloud adoption. It comprises five pillars with this blog focused on Pillar 4: Business Agility. Figure 1: […]