Migration & Modernization

Category: Artificial Intelligence

HALO by First Student: How AWS and AI-powered solutions are shaping the future of student transportation

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

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 […]

Security at Machine Speed: Why Continuous Defense Is the New Competitive Advantage

A New Chapter in Security For years, cybersecurity defense traditionally followed a familiar, non-continuous rhythm. An issue is discovered, security teams investigate, developers prioritize a fix, and operations deploy a patch. The organization moves on until the next one. That cycle worked when changes happened weekly and threat actors needed months to develop proof-of-concept code. […]

Why Legacy Infrastructure Blocks AI Success

When AI initiatives stall, the instinct is to look at the model, the data, or the team. But more often, the constraint is underneath all of those — in the infrastructure itself. And running in the cloud doesn’t automatically remove that constraint. If the architecture was designed around pre-AI assumptions, it carries the same limitations […]

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 […]