Category: Enterprise Strategy

Learn how NTT DATA Payment Services modernized their Loyalty Application using AWS ModAx, achieving 88% faster feature rollouts and 99.99% availability. Through AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) methodology and modernization pathways, they transformed their monolithic architecture into microservices, enhanced scalability, and improved performance. Discover how they leveraged AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and Step Functions to build a robust cloud-native solution that processes 5x more transactions and reduces service restoration time by 67%.

When one enterprise moved its aging systems to the cloud, the CTO faced a tough choice: rehost apps (lift and shift applications as-is) for speed or refactor (modify applications) for long‑term cloud benefits. Rehosting meant getting there fast but sacrificing efficiency, while refactoring promised scalability but delayed growth. This kind of trade‑off isn’t unique. From […]

Introduction As healthcare technology keeps evolving, leading organizations are embracing cloud-native solutions to enhance their operational capabilities. In this post, we’ll explore how Availity, America’s largest real-time healthcare information network, leveraged a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to accelerate the migration of 13 critical workloads to AWS. Four AWS services were the focus of this […]

Introduction Data centre migrations are transformational undertakings that touch every aspect of an organization’s IT infrastructure, operations, and potentially its entire business model. Unlike traditional technology upgrades, cloud migrations represent fundamental shifts in how organizations approach computing, storage, security, and technological innovation. Maximizing cloud value while minimizing disruption requires a holistic approach to be taken […]

Introduction Migrating VMware virtual machines to Amazon EC2 at scale presents significant challenges for organizations seeking to accelerate cloud benefits. AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator simplifies this process by providing a streamlined, automated approach to these complex migrations. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through a step-by-step process showing how Migration Hub Orchestrator effectively manages […]

This post has received input from Jeremy Anderson, Imran Ahmed, Matthew Jones, Ian Korolkovas and ER Hapal from Loyalty New Zealand. In this blog post, we will show you how Loyalty New Zealand executed a move from VMware Cloud on AWS to AWS native services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]

Update as of June 18, 2025: Amazon EVS public preview has expanded to include the Europe (Ireland) AWS Region. This post has been updated to reflect the current regional availability. When we introduced Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) at AWS re:Invent 2024, customers were eager to learn more about this new pathway to leverage […]

This post is co-written with Gurvinder Arora and Utkarsh Jain from Impetus LeapLogic™ Technologies. Introduction Impetus LeapLogic™ is a cloud transformation accelerator designed to simplify, automate, and expedite legacy migration to modern cloud ecosystems. It translates workloads from traditional data warehouses, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), BI (Business Intelligence) reports, Hadoop, scheduled batch jobs and […]

AWS offers several generative AI services that transform VMware workload migrations into a streamlined, automated process. By using agentic AI technology, organizations can now accelerate their cloud journey while maintaining operational excellence and reducing risk. AI powered migration tools can assess your on-premises servers in VMWare environments to map complex application dependencies, recommend optimized resource […]

Introduction: This is Part 2 of our three-part series on Good x Practice (GxP) requirements in large-scale migrations. While Part -1 covered GxP assessment, this segment focuses on the mobilization phase of the AWS three-phase migration framework – Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize goals and workstreams. In this blog we introduce a new layered model approach […]