Category: Enterprise Strategy

When enterprises embark on their cloud migration journey, they bring years of operational maturity from running their workloads on-premises: separate environments for development, testing, and production, often segmented by business unit, with dedicated infrastructure, network boundaries, and identity controls for each. Translating these well-established patterns into cloud-native constructs like account structures, organizational units (OUs), and […]

Introduction Migration assessment and planning is rarely a single-pass exercise. Inventory data is incomplete; assumptions shift as more stakeholders get involved, and new scenarios emerge as the strategy evolves. Traditional assessment workflows struggle with this reality because they treat each assessment as a one-shot report: collect data, run analysis, deliver a static business case, and […]

Introduction Lift-and-shift has a reputation problem. Ask any enterprise architect and you’ll get a wince. “We just moved our problems to the cloud.” That criticism has a grain of truth – but only when migration is treated as the end goal. The real question is whether it’s the right first step. Often, it is. Here’s […]

An AI migration means different things to different teams, and that ambiguity is expensive. Are you migrating with AI, to AI, or from AI? The answer shapes your staffing plan, governance model, and timeline, because each motion carries a different risk profile and demands a different set of skills. Gartner found that by the end […]

You may need to run workloads in your data center on AWS Outposts for low-latency access to on-premises systems, data residency requirements, or local data processing. With Outposts, you get the same AWS APIs, instance types, and tools available in the AWS Region, on hardware that AWS delivers, installs, and manages in your facility. But […]

Traditional VMware migrations have long suffered from fragmentation and inflexibility. Enterprises had to cobble together disconnected tools for discovery, planning, network configuration, and rehosting, each requiring specialized expertise and lengthy manually orchestrated handoffs. These rigid, rules-based tools can’t adapt to each customer’s unique environment, resulting in compounding costs, expensive customizations, and timelines that stretch into […]

For energy companies like ExxonMobil, cloud costs rise as systems grow harder to manage and resources go underutilized. As the largest U.S. based oil and gas company by revenue, ExxonMobil operates a complex mix of on-premises and cloud workloads where infrastructure provisioned for reliability often costs more than it should. To address this, ExxonMobil conducted […]

Migrating hundreds of servers from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS involves coordinating across teams, accounts, and tools. You need to set up your target environments, plan waves, deploy replication agents, monitor their progress, run tests, and perform cutover, often across multiple AWS accounts. Each step can be challenging on its own, requiring careful planning […]

Introduction When planning or executing a cloud migration, you face a choice between migration strategies: rehost your applications quickly to meet data center exit deadlines, or invest the time to modernize and replatform them into cloud-native architectures. Modernization can take many forms, from serverless architectures, managed services, containers, or a combination, depending on the workload […]

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 […]