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Modernizing Excel VBA to Python at Scale with AWS Transform custom

Learn how AWS Transform custom can help migrate Excel VBA applications to modern Python code while overcoming context window limitations, preserving functional equivalence, and enabling cloud-native deployment—turning weeks of manual rewriting into hours of AI-guided transformation. Introduction Many organizations maintain dozens of Excel VBA applications built over decades, containing business-critical logic trapped in workbooks—budget planning […]

Agentic application modernization at scale with Strands and Amazon Transform custom

Introduction Modernizing applications by upgrading language runtimes, migrating SDKs, and refactoring frameworks is important for cloud adoption but can be labor-intensive at scale. Each repository requires analysis of dependencies and transformation needs; custom transformation logic must be built and validated, and changes are often executed sequentially across codebases. If you have hundreds of applications, this […]

AWS Transform custom: Enterprise Code Modernization with the Learn-Scale-Improve Flywheel

Enterprise modernization has reached an inflection point. You can transform one repository easily. Existing tools, including AWS Transform custom, work well for individual repositories, and the process is understood. But what about 50 repositories? 100? 200? When you need to modernize at enterprise scale, transforming code is only part of the challenge. Coordinating people, capturing […]

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Troubleshooting environment with AI analysis in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Introduction AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies the process of deploying and scaling web applications. You upload your code, and Elastic Beanstalk handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto scaling, and application health monitoring. Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI Analysis to help troubleshoot environment health issues. When you request an analysis, Elastic Beanstalk triggers a script on the […]

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Automate AWS Lambda Runtime Upgrades with AWS Transform custom

Introduction Organizations carry a growing burden of technical debt — aging codebases, outdated runtimes, and legacy frameworks that slow innovation, increase security risk, and inflate maintenance costs. Addressing this debt requires tackling a wide range of code transformation challenges: version upgrades, runtime migrations, framework transitions, and language translations, all of which must be repeated across […]

Building a scalable code modernization solution with AWS Transform custom

Introduction Software maintenance and modernization is a critical challenge for enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of repositories. Whether upgrading Java versions, migrating to new AWS SDKs, or modernizing frameworks, the scale of transformation work can be overwhelming. AWS Transform custom uses agentic AI to perform large-scale modernization of software, code, libraries, and frameworks to reduce […]

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

AWS Transform custom: AI-driven Java modernization to reduce tech debt

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, maintaining and modernizing Java applications is a critical challenge for many organizations. As new Java versions are released and best practices evolve, the need for efficient code transformation becomes increasingly important. Organizations today face significant challenges when modernizing their Java applications. Legacy codebases often contain outdated patterns, deprecated APIs, […]

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From AI agent prototype to product: Lessons from building AWS DevOps Agent

At re:Invent 2025, Matt Garman announced AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance. As a member of the DevOps Agent team, we’ve focused heavily on making sure that the “incident response” capability of the DevOps Agent generates useful findings and observations. In particular, we’ve been […]

Automating AWS SDK for Java v1 to v2 Upgrades with AWS Transform

The AWS SDK for Java v2 represents a fundamental shift in how Java applications interact with AWS services, addressing critical security requirements while delivering measurable performance improvements. For organizations still operating on v1, this transition extends beyond a routine version upgrade—it’s a strategic imperative for maintaining secure, efficient cloud operations. With v1 reaching end-of-support on December 31, 2025, […]

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Introducing AWS Cloud Control API MCP Server: Natural Language Infrastructure Management on AWS

Today, we’re officially announcing the AWS Cloud Control API (CCAPI) MCP Server. This MCP server transforms AWS infrastructure management by allowing developers to create, read, update, delete, and list resources using natural language. As part of the awslabs/mcp project, this new and innovative tool serves as a bridge between natural language commands and AWS infrastructure […]