Category: AWS Transform

Introduction AWS Transform is an AI-powered service that accelerates enterprise modernization of VMware workloads, Windows, mainframe, and application code. It provides two key offerings for VMware migration planning: AWS Transform Assessments generates a complimentary, data-driven business case for your VMware infrastructure, including cost analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and migration planning. AWS Transform for VMware automates the […]

Estimated time to complete: 90–120 minutes  Level: Advanced (400)   Microsoft ended extended support for Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) in 2008, yet thousands of mission-critical applications across financial services, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing still depend on it.  These applications contain decades of business logic, but maintaining them becomes more difficult each year.  VB6 developers are increasingly expensive to hire as fewer remain in the […]

Application modernization often begins with a difficult task: comprehensive legacy codebase analysis to understand how the system works. Many legacy applications evolve over years of incremental changes, leaving teams with limited documentation, tightly coupled dependencies, and business logic spread across multiple services and modules. For engineering teams, this lack of visibility creates a common challenge. […]

Introduction Many enterprises worldwide depend on PL/I mainframe applications to run critical operations like banking, insurance claims, and government services. PL/I accounts for roughly 5% of all applications, (Leverage Compilation Technology to Optimize Investment on System z) primarily in financial services, insurance, and public sector, proving remarkably resilient over decades. However, organizations face growing challenges […]

Many enterprises have used the mainframe as a platform of choice for their core business processing over decades. The simplicity and speed of initial development in monolithic architecture have consequently resulted in the creation of large (10M+ LOC) and exceptionally large (100M+ LOC) mono-repos and complex codebases. When customers are ready to modernize these applications, […]

Introduction Our Cloud Value Framework series explores how AWS delivers business value across five pillars: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. These pillars focus on benefits after workloads are running in the cloud. Strategic migration planning helps organizations achieve these outcomes faster. But this journey requires investment in the Cost of Change: […]

AWS Transform for VMware simplifies how organizations migrate VMware workloads to AWS by providing an AI-driven, agentic experience that automates the entire migration journey, from initial discovery and assessment, through migration planning and wave execution, to the actual migration of virtual machines to AWS. It addresses one of the critical migration challenges: translating on-premises network […]

Migrating and modernizing Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS requires the right strategies, tools, and real-world validation. This playlist brings together top sessions from AWS re:Invent 2025 — covering agentic AI-powered automation with AWS Transform, running VMware natively on AWS, and lessons from customers who’ve done it at scale — with practical guidance across every […]

Migration assessments empower organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint and evaluate migration and modernization opportunities in the cloud. These assessments instill confidence in decision-makers and help organizations optimize their infrastructure, potentially reducing costs by up to 60% (Bain & Company, “Rightsizing your way to the cloud“).  AWS Transform assessments help eliminate the guesswork in the […]

Executive Summary Across every major software category, cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leaders aren’t just competing—they’re redefining markets. McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook highlights that enterprise cloud adoption continues to accelerate, while traditional IT spending on on-premises systems steadily declines. Gartner forecasts that public cloud services will grow 21.3% in 2026, fueled by continued migration and modernization […]