Category: Migration Solutions

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 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.

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

1. Introduction An AWS Migration Assessment is a complimentary service that helps potential and existing AWS customers carefully plan and prepare for their migration to the AWS cloud. It includes creating a data-driven directional business case for migrating workloads to AWS. AWS Migration Evaluator (ME) is a data collection tool used in these assessments to […]

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 […]