AWS re:Invent 2025 - Migrate, modernize, and move your business into the AI era (INV212)

AWS re:Invent 2025 - Migrate, Modernize, and Move Your Business into the AI Era

Overview

• AWS presented their vision for the future of IT transformation and migration, powered by AI-driven tools and services.
• The key focus was on simplifying and automating the complex processes involved in migrating legacy systems, modernizing mainframes, and transforming Windows applications.

Challenges with Traditional IT Transformation

• Legacy systems, manual processes, and technical debt create significant friction and delays in IT transformation projects.
• Enterprises often lack visibility and automation in their transformation journeys, leading to high costs and slow progress.

AWS Transform: AI-Powered Migration and Modernization

• AWS Transform is an AI-driven service that provides automated navigation and orchestration for complex migration and modernization projects.
• Key capabilities include:
  • Automated discovery, assessment, and planning for VMware, mainframe, and Windows workloads.
  • Orchestrated task execution with human-in-the-loop collaboration.
  • Continuous learning and optimization based on past migrations.

VMware Migrations with AWS Transform

• Streamlined the discovery, TCO analysis, migration planning, and network/security configuration for VMware migrations.
• Enabled a 10x improvement in discovery time and 12x improvement in migration planning for a customer, leading to a 30% total cost savings.

Mainframe Modernization with AWS Transform

• Provided new agents for automated code analysis, activity profiling, data lineage mapping, and test case generation to accelerate mainframe migrations.
• Helped a customer (BMW) migrate 7 applications in 6 months, a process that previously took years.

Windows Application Modernization

• Introduced full-stack Windows modernization capabilities within AWS Transform.
• Automates the transformation of .NET applications, SQL databases, and UI from web forms to Blazor.
• Enables parallel modernization of multiple Windows applications with centralized monitoring and control.

AWS Transform Custom: Enabling Personalized Transformations

• Allows customers and partners to define custom transformations using code snippets, documentation, and enterprise context.
• Provides a framework for creating, executing, and continuously improving custom transformation workflows.
• Enables partners to build differentiated transformation solutions by composing AWS Transform agents with their own proprietary expertise.

Composability and the Transformation Network

• AWS Transform's composability enables partners to personalize transformation workflows for specific customer needs.
• Accenture, Capgemini, and AWS ProServe shared examples of how they used composability to build tailored solutions for mainframe modernization, deposit insurance, and delivery optimization.
• The goal is to create the world's largest transformation network, where partners can contribute and access specialized transformation capabilities.

Key Takeaways

• AWS Transform provides a comprehensive, AI-driven platform to simplify and accelerate complex IT transformation projects.
• The platform has expanded to cover VMware, mainframe, and full-stack Windows modernization use cases.
• The introduction of custom transformations and composability enables partners to build differentiated solutions and leverage their proprietary expertise.
• Customers are seeing significant improvements in speed, efficiency, and risk reduction when using AWS Transform for their migration and modernization initiatives.