Migration & Modernization

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Announcing the public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

Announcing the public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

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 […]

Impetus LeapLogic™: Automating Legacy Workflow Migrations to Amazon MWAA

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 […]

New Capabilities in AWS Transform for VMware

Introduction We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Transform for VMware, the first agentic AI experience purpose-built to accelerate VMware workload modernization. It automates application discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, network conversion, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance optimization – reducing manual effort and accelerating cloud adoption. It addresses two of […]

Accelerating to the Cloud: How Stericycle rapidly migrated over 450 servers to Amazon EC2 and other AWS native services

Accelerating to the Cloud: How Stericycle rapidly migrated over 450 servers to Amazon EC2 and other AWS native services

This post is co-written with Matthew Kozlowski from Stericycle, Inc. Discover how a five Person infrastructure team migrated 450+ servers for 24/7 operations, achieving cost savings and efficiency gains. This case study reveals their successful strategy. Stericycle, Inc. has been protecting what matters since 1989. Headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois, this leader in compliance-based solutions serves […]

Configure AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring to troubleshoot replication errors in AWS MGN and AWS DRS

Organizations using replication-based solutions for cloud migration or disaster recovery sometimes face challenges when troubleshooting replication errors. These challenges can impact migration timelines, increase operational overhead, and affect business continuity plans. Without proper visibility into network communication, identifying and resolving replication problems becomes a complex and time-consuming task. AWS Application Migration Service simplifies and expedites […]

Aligning Strategy and Execution for Successful Cloud Migration and Modernization Journeys

Aligning Strategy and Execution for Successful Cloud Migration and Modernization Journeys

Cloud transformation requires balancing centralized control with decentralized flexibility across both strategy and execution dimensions, with organizations typically needing to align their approach with specific business goals while remaining adaptable.

No Internet? No Problem: Mastering AWS MGN in Isolated Environments

In today’s cloud-driven world, migrating applications is often as simple as a few clicks. But what happens when you face a fortress-like environment where servers are running in an isolated environment with no internet like islands in a digital ocean? This is the reality for many organizations with high-security requirements, where even a simple task […]

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

Upskilling and Training: Preparing Teams for Cloud Migration

During a cloud transformation journey, one of the biggest challenges you may face is not the adoption of the technology itself, but rather the ability to create a culture that encourages continuous growth, improvement, and learning. This change in culture is especially important in cloud environments. It creates benefits such as finding faster value in […]

Exporting network configuration data with Import/Export for NSX

Whether it’s VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) situated on-premises, Import/Export for NSX is a new AWS Open Source tool that you can use to export your VMware NSX configuration into a zipped file. You can then import the zipfile into Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware. Q Developer will […]

Getting started with Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware

Getting started with Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware

In this blog post, we explore how to get started with Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware. Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered assistant for software development that reimagines the experience of software development lifecycle, making it easier and faster to build, secure, manage and optimize applications on AWS, and now migrate and modernize […]