Category: Migration

Introduction Every successful cloud migration starts with a solid plan. AWS provides comprehensive guidance on migration strategy to help organizations assess their readiness, choose the right approach, and execute migrations efficiently and securely. But here’s what often gets overlooked: how many of those detailed plans include equally thorough rollback strategies — a deliberate, pre-planned path […]

Introduction Our Cloud Value Framework series explores how AWS delivers business value across five pillars: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. These pillars focus on benefits after workloads are running in the cloud. Strategic migration planning helps organizations achieve these outcomes faster. But this journey requires investment in the Cost of Change: […]

Migrating and modernizing Microsoft and VMware workloads on AWS requires the right strategies, tools, and real-world validation. This playlist brings together top sessions from AWS re:Invent 2025 — covering agentic AI-powered automation with AWS Transform, running VMware natively on AWS, and lessons from customers who’ve done it at scale — with practical guidance across every […]

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 […]

Migration assessments empower organizations to understand their on-premises infrastructure footprint and evaluate migration and modernization opportunities in the cloud. These assessments instill confidence in decision-makers and help organizations optimize their infrastructure, potentially reducing costs by up to 60% (Bain & Company, “Rightsizing your way to the cloud“).  AWS Transform assessments help eliminate the guesswork in the […]

Executive Summary Across every major software category, cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leaders aren’t just competing—they’re redefining markets. McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook highlights that enterprise cloud adoption continues to accelerate, while traditional IT spending on on-premises systems steadily declines. Gartner forecasts that public cloud services will grow 21.3% in 2026, fueled by continued migration and modernization […]

Monolithic databases have long been a cornerstone of enterprise applications, but as organizations scale and adopt cloud-native architectures, these databases increasingly become bottlenecks. A structured approach to modernizing these monolithic databases addresses increased cost, scalability constraints, architectural rigidity, and performance degradation that prevent independent deployment and rapid innovation. Organizations embarking on cloud migration often discover […]

For years, cloud migration projects have been slowed by fragmented, manual processes. Discovery required deploying multiple tools and navigating lengthy approvals. Assessments relied on manual analysis or tools requiring significant time. Migration itself depended on manual scripting for wave planning, network conversion, and server orchestration. This end-to-end journey often stretched across many months, delaying cloud […]

Building on a momentous launch earlier this year, AWS adds new powerful AI capabilities to AWS Transform for VMware migration agent. AWS Transform for VMware understands your business priorities, adapts to your environments, and gives you greater control at every migration step. The agent orchestrates migration processes including dependency mapping, intelligent wave planning, and network […]

Introduction Migrating VMware workloads to the cloud presents numerous challenges for organizations. From maintaining application dependencies and preserving IP addresses to managing downtime windows and ensuring consistent performance, the complexity of these migrations can often slow down cloud adoption initiatives. Network reconfigurations, application testing, and maintaining business continuity throughout the migration process add additional layers […]