Migration & Modernization

Maintaining HIPAA compliance when migrating with AWS Transform MGN

Healthcare organizations migrating regulated workloads to AWS must maintain security and privacy controls at every phase, including replication, testing, and cutover, not just after workloads reach production. This post shows how to layer HIPAA controls onto the proven multi-account AWS Transform MGN (formerly AWS Application Migration Service) migration architecture using AWS Resource Access Manager, covering encrypted private replication, audit continuity, and evidence collection.  […]

AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, 16 years running

AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, 16 years running

For the 16th consecutive year, Gartner has recognized Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and once again placed AWS highest on the Ability to Execute axis. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the longest-running Leader in this Magic Quadrant. In Gartner’s words: “Amazon Web […]

Dive Deep into the AWS Transform Network Migration Agent: Hub and Spoke Network Setup

Introduction Network design takes real effort in any migration. You need to map source network segments to VPCs, plan subnets across Availability Zones, translate firewall rules into security groups, and configure route tables that keep traffic flowing, a challenge the AWS Transform – Migrations network migration agent solves for you. You upload exports from well-known […]

Mass-migrating AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

This post shows how to migrate a fleet of AI agents from Amazon Bedrock Agents Classic to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime using a pattern-first approach and parallel AI subagents. We migrated 20 agents from the open-source HCLS Agents Toolkit in approximately 2.5 hours of wall-clock time, across three phases: establishing a migration template, running parallel […]

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 […]

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Okta Workforce Identity

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Okta Workforce Identity ensures that the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people involved in enterprise migration programs all work inside a single platform. That platform is governed by the same access controls and security policies that your organization already enforces, making it essential for running migrations at scale. AWS […]

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Microsoft Entra ID

Enabling single sign-on for AWS Transform with Entra ID ensures that the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people involved in enterprise migration programs, from application owners and infrastructure engineers to business analysts and program managers, all work inside a single platform. That platform is governed by the same access controls and security policies your organization already […]

A year of expanding choice for VMware customers on AWS

A year of expanding choice for VMware customers on AWS

A little over a year ago, we made Amazon EVS generally available. It was a milestone for customers running VMware workloads who wanted more options in the cloud, while keeping the investments they’d already made in their people, tooling, and operational workflows. With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on Amazon EC2 […]

Govern AI Adoption Before It Governs You

Govern AI Adoption Before It Governs You

Why the modernization era’s biggest governance challenge is the one your security team cannot see, and how to solve it on AWS.  Your company is already running Shadow AI. Somewhere in your organization this week, an employee is pasting something they should not into an AI tool you have not approved. They are trying to […]

ModernZ VMware Blog

The VMware Reset: How ModernZ Turns a Broadcom Renewal Into a Self-Funding AWS Migration

vSphere 8 reaches End of General Support on October 11, 2027 – a deadline for every VMware customer. This blog gives AWS Partners and customers a licensing-accurate framework to turn the Broadcom VCF renewal into a self-funding migration to AWS, with a real 1,247 VM customer engagement that delivered 56% annual savings.