Migration & Modernization
Category: Storage
Automating FSx for NetApp ONTAP Mounts with SSM and MGN Post-Migration
As organizations migrate to AWS at scale, connecting migrated instances to their new storage is a common bottleneck. When workloads move from on-premises NFS servers to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, teams often mount file systems by hand, minutes per instance that add up to weeks across hundreds or thousands of servers. This solution combines […]
Lessons from Production Migrations: Troubleshooting Complex Issues with AWS Transform MGN
No matter how thorough your planning, large-scale migrations will surface edge cases that no runbook anticipates. The difference between a stalled project and a successful one often comes down to how quickly your team can diagnose, resolve the unexpected and whether those lessons feed back into your process. This post distills that operational knowledge into […]
Replacing Netflix Conductor with AWS Step Functions: What We Learned
Introduction Accelerate your business transformation by migrating from Netflix Conductor to AWS Step Functions. This strategic move offers significant benefits: Cost Reduction: Eliminate infrastructure management costs and take advantage of AWS’s pay-per-use model. Increased Reliability: Benefit from AWS’s fully managed service with a 99.9% availability SLA. Enhanced Scalability: Scale to up to 1 million open […]
How to Migrate from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 Using Agentless AWS DataSync
Summary Migrating data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon Simple Storage Service a common requirement for organizations consolidating on AWS or adopting multi-cloud storage strategies. AWS DataSync makes this agentless migration simple — no VMs to deploy, no agents to manage. Whether you’re consolidating storage on AWS, reducing cross-cloud egress costs, or unlocking AWS-native analytics […]
Kickstart Migration: Streamlining Cloud Migration Planning with AWS Serverless Technology
Large-scale cloud migration planning often requires coordinating multiple teams, gathering accurate technical information, and tracking schedules against migration progress across hundreds of applications. Migration planning teams often struggle with data collection, parsing scattered data across spreadsheets and emails. Application owners face repetitive questionnaires and changing timelines. And migration engineers require detailed infrastructure assessments to avoid […]
Migration of Tableau Cloud to Salesforce Hyperforce on AWS
This post is co-written with Fatima Calcuttawala, John Robe, and Yi Ding at Salesforce. Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted, AWS cloud-based analytics solution that offers a platform for data preparation, authoring, analysis, collaboration, publishing, and sharing of analytics content without the need to manage infrastructure or perform software updates. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform provides […]
Decoupling the compute and data layers with AWS MGN, AWS DataSync and Amazon FSx
As more organizations take their first steps in the cloud migration journey, we’re seeing them facing a common on-premises challenge: applications that are tightly coupled with their datasets. This means that while their applications (running on physical or virtual machines) are ready to be migrated to the cloud using the rehost (“lift-and-shift”) strategy, there may […]
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 […]
OpenVMS x86 Database Modernization with Mimer SQL and Amazon EC2
In this blog post, I will show how to migrate an Oracle Rdb database to Mimer SQL running on OpenVMS x86 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the time of this post, Oracle Rdb is only available on VAX, Alpha, and IA-64 platforms. Customers with Oracle Rdb workloads wishing to move to OpenVMS x86 need […]
Configure AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring to troubleshoot replication errors in AWS MGN and AWS DRS
Organizations using replication-based solutions for cloud migration or disaster recovery sometimes face challenges when troubleshooting replication errors. These challenges can impact migration timelines, increase operational overhead, and affect business continuity plans. Without proper visibility into network communication, identifying and resolving replication problems becomes a complex and time-consuming task. AWS Application Migration Service simplifies and expedites […]









