Category: Migration & Transfer Services

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 […]

Background Many customers are looking for cost-effective ways to archive their workloads. This workload archiving use case is driven by regulatory compliance across industries like healthcare, finance, and public sector. Also, organizations must archive data to meet industry compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, GxP, GDPR etc. Amazon S3 storage tiers, particularly Amazon S3 Glacier Deep […]

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 […]

In this blog post, I will show how to migrate an Oracle Rdb database to Mimer SQL running on OpenVMS x86 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the time of this post, Oracle Rdb is only available on VAX, Alpha, and IA-64 platforms. Customers with Oracle Rdb workloads wishing to move to OpenVMS x86 need […]

We are excited to announce the release of the assessment capability of AWS Transform. Migration assessments are an important early step in any organization’s migration journey as they help reduce cost and accelerate migration planning so you can realize migration objectives more quickly. A migration assessment empowers organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint by […]

Introduction Mainframe modernization has long been a challenging task for organizations, due to complex legacy codebases of critical applications, shrinking talent pool with mainframe expertise, and increasing need to embrace modern cloud capabilities. AWS Transform for mainframe, a breakthrough solution for modernizing legacy systems that was previewed as ‘Amazon Q Developer transform capability for mainframe’ […]

AWS Transform Now Generally Available to Accelerate Enterprise Migration and Modernization You’re likely aware of the huge appetite organizations of all sizes have to leverage AI technology to rethink their business and deliver intelligent, data-driven outcomes faster. Recent research shows that 64% of enterprises are investing in AI in 2025, and 63% are accelerating cloud […]

Introduction Have you ever wondered how global organizations maintain data compliance while leveraging cloud infrastructure across different Regions? As businesses expand internationally, multi-Region cloud strategies using Amazon Web Services (AWS) have become crucial for performance and regulatory adherence. Understanding the complex landscape of global data protection laws can feel like solving a challenging puzzle. In […]