Migration & Modernization
Category: Generative AI
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. […]
Experience AWS Transform through interactive demos
Large-scale migrations and modernizations are among the most complex programs an IT organization undertakes. Teams spend weeks building spreadsheets to catalog servers, months writing business cases to justify the move, and years executing migration waves while keeping production systems running. At every stage, the challenge is the same: too much manual work, too many handoffs, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]









