Category: Migration

You may need to run workloads in your data center on AWS Outposts for low-latency access to on-premises systems, data residency requirements, or local data processing. With Outposts, you get the same AWS APIs, instance types, and tools available in the AWS Region, on hardware that AWS delivers, installs, and manages in your facility. But […]

Traditional VMware migrations have long suffered from fragmentation and inflexibility. Enterprises had to cobble together disconnected tools for discovery, planning, network configuration, and rehosting, each requiring specialized expertise and lengthy manually orchestrated handoffs. These rigid, rules-based tools can’t adapt to each customer’s unique environment, resulting in compounding costs, expensive customizations, and timelines that stretch into […]

For energy companies like ExxonMobil, cloud costs rise as systems grow harder to manage and resources go underutilized. As the largest U.S. based oil and gas company by revenue, ExxonMobil operates a complex mix of on-premises and cloud workloads where infrastructure provisioned for reliability often costs more than it should. To address this, ExxonMobil conducted […]

Migrating hundreds of servers from an on-premises VMware environment to AWS involves coordinating across teams, accounts, and tools. You need to set up your target environments, plan waves, deploy replication agents, monitor their progress, run tests, and perform cutover, often across multiple AWS accounts. Each step can be challenging on its own, requiring careful planning […]

Introduction When planning or executing a cloud migration, you face a choice between migration strategies: rehost your applications quickly to meet data center exit deadlines, or invest the time to modernize and replatform them into cloud-native architectures. Modernization can take many forms, from serverless architectures, managed services, containers, or a combination, depending on the workload […]

Introduction AWS Transform is an AI-powered service that accelerates enterprise modernization of VMware workloads, Windows, mainframe, and application code. It provides two key offerings for VMware migration planning: AWS Transform Assessments generates a complimentary, data-driven business case for your VMware infrastructure, including cost analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and migration planning. AWS Transform for VMware automates the […]

Flexibility, control, and choice have always been core pillars of the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS gives you the ability to maintain existing investments in VMware technologies while embracing the benefits of the cloud. With Amazon EVS, you can run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal […]

A fundamental shift in API demand patterns is emerging from artificial intelligence integration. More than 30% of the increase in API demand will come from AI and tools using large language models by 2026. This AI-driven transformation is supported by statistics showing that enterprise AI adoption reached 78% in 2024, marking a dramatic acceleration from […]

Introduction Organizations maximizing cloud value through AI-powered acceleration have a competitive advantage, a stark contrast to the 56% of CEOs reporting zero return on their AI investments according to PwC. Despite billions invested across the industry, more than half of business leaders see neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI initiatives. Yet 12% who […]

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 […]