Category: Migration & Transfer Services

Large-scale cloud migration planning often requires coordinating multiple teams, gathering accurate technical information, and tracking schedules against migration progress across hundreds of applications. Migration planning teams often struggle with data collection, parsing scattered data across spreadsheets and emails. Application owners face repetitive questionnaires and changing timelines. And migration engineers require detailed infrastructure assessments to avoid […]

Introduction Every successful cloud migration starts with a solid plan. AWS provides comprehensive guidance on migration strategy to help organizations assess their readiness, choose the right approach, and execute migrations efficiently and securely. But here’s what often gets overlooked: how many of those detailed plans include equally thorough rollback strategies — a deliberate, pre-planned path […]

This post is co-written with Fatima Calcuttawala, John Robe, and Yi Ding at Salesforce. Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted, AWS cloud-based analytics solution that offers a platform for data preparation, authoring, analysis, collaboration, publishing, and sharing of analytics content without the need to manage infrastructure or perform software updates. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform provides […]

Building on a momentous launch earlier this year, AWS adds new powerful AI capabilities to AWS Transform for VMware migration agent. AWS Transform for VMware understands your business priorities, adapts to your environments, and gives you greater control at every migration step. The agent orchestrates migration processes including dependency mapping, intelligent wave planning, and network […]

As more organizations take their first steps in the cloud migration journey, we’re seeing them facing a common on-premises challenge: applications that are tightly coupled with their datasets. This means that while their applications (running on physical or virtual machines) are ready to be migrated to the cloud using the rehost (“lift-and-shift”) strategy, there may […]

NOTE: AWS Application Discovery Service is no longer open to new customers. Alternatively, use AWS Transform discovery tool or partner supported tool which provides similar capabilities. AWS Transform for VMware added new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations. Learn more about AWS Transform’s new experience.  Organizations migrating VMware workloads to AWS without specialized tools […]

Background Q2 is an independent software vendor (ISV) and a leading provider of digital banking and fraud solutions for banks and credit unions. Q2 completed a successful migration of online banking application stacks for over 450 of their financial institution clients to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This strategic move represents one of the most significant […]

The Missing Link in Cloud Modernization: A Trusted CMDB Walk into any IT organization and mention the words Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and you’ll usually get one of two reactions: either a hopeful nod about its promise, or a sigh about its failure. A CMDB maps IT assets—or configuration items (CIs)—such as servers, databases, applications, […]

Introduction In today’s cloud migration landscape, organizations would like to share their VMware environment data with AWS and partners while maintaining data confidentiality. A tool commonly used to export VMware configuration data is called RVTools. An RVTools export can contain sensitive information such as server names, IP addresses, and infrastructure details that organizations may want […]

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 […]