Migration & Modernization
Category: Thought Leadership
A Framework for Accelerated Modernization and Technical Debt Reduction
Introduction Today’s evolving technology ecosystem demands a new approach to technical debt reduction. While traditionally viewed as a software development concern or cloud migration challenge, technical debt represents the cumulative impact of every technology decision, infrastructure design, security practice, and postponed improvement across the entire IT portfolio. This blog post provides a pragmatic approach to […]
Navigating Conflicting Decisions in Your Cloud Migration and Modernization Journey
When one enterprise moved its aging systems to the cloud, the CTO faced a tough choice: rehost apps (lift and shift applications as-is) for speed or refactor (modify applications) for long‑term cloud benefits. Rehosting meant getting there fast but sacrificing efficiency, while refactoring promised scalability but delayed growth. This kind of trade‑off isn’t unique. From […]
Availity accelerates migrations to Amazon EKS with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA)
Introduction As healthcare technology keeps evolving, leading organizations are embracing cloud-native solutions to enhance their operational capabilities. In this post, we’ll explore how Availity, America’s largest real-time healthcare information network, leveraged a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to accelerate the migration of 13 critical workloads to AWS. Four AWS services were the focus of this […]
Escaping Legacy Database Constraints: Modernize Business Rule Processing with AWS Cloud Technologies
Are you struggling with legacy database-based applications that feel like they’re holding your business back? Many organizations find themselves unable to move forward with digital transformation. They are trapped in a complex web of traditional relational databases to address both transactional and analytic data processing. These monolithic database architectures, built around intricate stored procedures and […]
Accelerate Your Mainframe Modernization Journey using AI Agents with AWS Transform
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’ […]
Navigating Compliance in cross-Region Cloud Migrations
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 […]
Unlock Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 4: Migrate – Realizing Planned Savings)
This blog post is the fourth in a four-part series series to provide you a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]
Unlock Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 3: Mobilize – Understand and Control Cloud Spend)
This blog post is the third in a four-part series to provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]
Unlock Cloud Savings, A Rehost Migration Playbook (Part 2: Assess – Build a Business Case)
This blog post is the second in a four-part series to provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to optimize costs throughout an AWS Rehost migration, specifically: Exploring your cost components and on-premises environment. Building an accurate business case during the assess phase. Understanding and controlling cloud spend during the mobilize phase. Optimizing costs […]
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.