Migration & Modernization
Category: Customer Solutions
HALO by First Student: How AWS and AI-powered solutions are shaping the future of student transportation
Introduction If you’re managing student transportation for a school district, you’re navigating increasingly diverse student needs alongside rising expectations from families who want real-time visibility into their student’s journey. At the same time, you must deliver consistent, reliable service in a complex operating environment where disruptions can quickly impact safety, service reliability and community trust. […]
Sustaining migration velocity through structured operational handoffs
Pratikkumar Chunawala, Principal Consultant, Professional Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction This post presents a diagnostic framework for sustaining migration velocity, covering the velocity curve model, two structural forces that cause deceleration, and three leading indicators to detect the pattern early. Migration velocity stalls between waves 20 and 35 in most large-scale programs, not because […]
Automate MAP Tagging at Scale with Amazon Nova and AWS Serverless
Learn how to automate AWS MAP tagging at scale using Amazon Nova and serverless architecture. Deploy a self-service solution that generates correct tag values, CLI commands, and discovers untagged resources in ~5–8 minutes. | 31 August 2026 | Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), Generative AI. Introduction MAP tagging determines whether […]
Everyone Adopted AI. Why Is Tech Debt Still Growing? And Two Moves To Close The Gap.
Most enterprise engineering organizations have deployed AI tooling broadly across teams. The per-team productivity gains are real. But end-to-end improvement hasn’t followed. Backlogs aren’t shrinking. Cycle times haven’t compressed. Tech debt is still growing. The tools aren’t broken. The problem is structural: each team accelerated independently, and the spaces between them are now the entire […]
Accelerate VMware migration to AWS with Experience-Based Acceleration
Introduction If your organization runs VMware workloads on-premises or in another cloud and needs to migrate to AWS without disrupting operations, Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) provides a proven path to do it fast. Using a structured three-day EBA workshop with AWS, organizations have moved multiple critical applications to AWS in days. Their engineers built hands-on migration […]
How to Migrate from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 Using Agentless AWS DataSync
Summary Migrating data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon Simple Storage Service a common requirement for organizations consolidating on AWS or adopting multi-cloud storage strategies. AWS DataSync makes this agentless migration simple — no VMs to deploy, no agents to manage. Whether you’re consolidating storage on AWS, reducing cross-cloud egress costs, or unlocking AWS-native analytics […]
How ExxonMobil reduced cloud costs with an AWS OLA
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 […]
Anonymizing AWS Transform Discovery Tool Exports for Regulated Customers
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 […]
Kickstart Migration: Streamlining Cloud Migration Planning with AWS Serverless Technology
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 […]
When Software Thinks and Acts – Reimagining Cloud Platform Engineering for Agentic AI
When Software Stops Waiting for Us For years, teams responsible for building and governing cloud platforms (such as the Cloud Center of Excellence) helped enterprises move faster without sacrificing governance or reliability. They standardized architecture, created guardrails, and turned cloud into a business accelerator rather than a technical experiment. Then software began to change. First, […]









