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Tag: AWS Mainframe Modernization Service

Demystifying mainframe technical debt and unlocking value of core application modernization

Although mainframe platforms still release new capabilities, customers are dealing with core-business application stacks that have accumulated substantial technical debt over decades. Applications use outdated technical components, interfaces, patterns, and data formats. This technical debt is the main factor causing negative impacts on release cycles, maintenance costs, and business outcomes. This critical issue can be […]

Strategizing Mainframe Scheduler Migration to AWS

Mainframe environments typically involve complex batch processing tasks used for critical and time-sensitive business operations. As mainframe applications are migrated to AWS using  AWS Mainframe Modernization service, similar batch processing capabilities are required. This blog explores the approach and patterns for selection and migration of the mainframe job scheduler to AWS. Overview AWS Mainframe Modernization […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization – Refactor Legacy code base to Java using AWS Blu Insights

According to Reuters , there are 220 billion lines of code in customers’ production environments running Cobol and other legacy languages. Customers are looking to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. These advantages help them to increase their agility, their capacity to innovate, and to benefit from the continual trends […]

Scaling for performance with AWS Mainframe Modernization and Micro Focus

Mainframe applications often execute business critical functions which have to be resilient, scalable, and cost efficient. When migrating and modernizing these applications with AWS, it is important to design an application and infrastructure architecture meeting the performance requirements while optimizing the cost and satisfying availability and scalability needs. This applies to both online and batch […]