Migration & Modernization

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Migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS: Resolving PV Driver Issues and Boot Failures

Overview Many organizations still run Windows Server 2008 workloads that cannot be upgraded before migration due to application dependencies, vendor support constraints, or licensing limitations. When migrating these servers to AWS using AWS Transform MGN, the choice of target Amazon EC2 instance type determines which drivers the guest operating system needs to communicate with the […]

Migrate faster with AWS Transform and your AI coding agent

Introduction If you already work with an AI coding agent, you know how much they can do. Tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor read repositories, reason over code, and drive multi-step tasks from an IDE or terminal. They’re excellent general-purpose AI coding agents, built to help with everyday software development tasks. But planning and […]

Experience AWS Transform through interactive demos

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, […]

Simplify application migrations to AWS with Elastic Beanstalk

Today, AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces a new deployment mode that manages multiple applications on shared infrastructure that AWS creates, operates, and upgrades for you. Whether you provide source code, a Dockerfile, or a prebuilt container image, Elastic Beanstalk takes care of building and deploying your application. It also configures networking, autoscaling, and observability. You manage […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Increase your cluster density with Memory Tiering in Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Increase your cluster density with Memory Tiering in Amazon Elastic VMware Service

Increasing your cluster density by using Memory Tiering within the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) can help drive down the costs of your AWS infrastructure. Amazon EVS now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 . In VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 Memory Tiering was introduced, which is a new feature within ESX […]