Category: Generative AI

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 […]

Introduction Organizations maximizing cloud value through AI-powered acceleration have a competitive advantage, a stark contrast to the 56% of CEOs reporting zero return on their AI investments according to PwC. Despite billions invested across the industry, more than half of business leaders see neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI initiatives. Yet 12% who […]

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: […]

Most cloud engineers today still spend time chasing pages, triaging incidents, and scaling infrastructure manually. That is about to change. AI agents are beginning to take over this operational burden. Engineers who understand this shift early will be the ones who define how it unfolds. Written as a fictional log entry from 2031, this blog […]

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 […]