New AWS Mainframe Modernization service makes
it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe workloads
by moving them to the cloud and benefitting from the superior
agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS
TCS, Infosys, and CGI among customers and
partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS
Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and
easier for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads by
moving them to the cloud to enjoy AWS’s superior agility,
elasticity, and cost savings. With AWS Mainframe Modernization,
customers can refactor their mainframe workloads to run on AWS by
transforming mainframe-based applications into modern cloud
services. Alternatively, customers can keep their applications as
written and replatform their workloads to AWS by reusing existing
code with minimal changes. A managed runtime environment built into
AWS Mainframe Modernization provides the necessary compute, memory,
and storage to run both refactored and replatformed applications
and helps automate the details of capacity provisioning, security,
load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. The AWS
Mainframe Modernization service also provides the development,
testing, and deployment tools necessary to automate the
modernization of mainframe applications to run on AWS. There are no
upfront costs, and customers only pay for the amount of compute
provisioned. To get started with the AWS Mainframe Modernization
service, visit aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization.
Many customers today in a variety of industries want to
modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of
the cloud, but to do so, they need to go through a lengthy and
complex process. This process of modernizing mainframe workloads to
run in the cloud requires multiple steps to discover, assess, test,
and operate the new workload environments. Each step can be
difficult and requires custom or third-party tooling that must be
calibrated to each individual customer environment—before
modernization project teams can begin the intricate task of
transforming mainframe programs into cloud services. Because of the
complexity involved in modernizing mainframe applications,
organizations typically turn to consultants and systems integrators
(SIs) to lead mainframe modernization projects. Organizations also
face the challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate
mainframe systems with modern application development and
deployment best practices in the new cloud environments. As more
customers want to modernize their mainframe-based applications,
they can derive outsized benefits from better tools that make it
easier for them to run their workloads in the cloud to realize
improved costs and agility.
AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and
runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers
to modernize and run their mainframe workloads on AWS. AWS
Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed to modernize
mainframe applications using a single environment that creates an
end-to-end modernization pipeline. With AWS Mainframe
Modernization, customers can refactor their workloads written for
mainframes to modern cloud services. Or, customers can maintain
existing applications as written and replatform them to AWS with
minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to refactor or
replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a
managed, cloud-based runtime environment for the modernized
applications that helps automate capacity provisioning, security,
load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring
with no underlying infrastructure to manage. AWS Mainframe
Modernization also provides continuous integration and continuous
delivery (CI/CD) capabilities to enable modern application
development and deployment best practices, so customers can operate
their modernized workloads in production on an ongoing basis with
the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of AWS.
Customers and SIs can also use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help
teams better assess modernizing mainframe applications and de-risk
and accelerate the modernization of mainframe workloads using
AWS.
“Customers often tell us that AWS is the best place to run any
type of application because of its unmatched breadth and depth of
purpose-built services. However, businesses in a wide variety of
industries have relied on mainframes to run business-critical
applications for decades. These businesses naturally want to
modernize their mainframe-based applications to reduce costs and
eliminate technical debt, but they don’t know how or where to get
started,” said William Platt, General Manager of Migration Services
at AWS. “With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems
integrators can now more quickly and easily refactor or replatform
mainframe applications to run in the cloud. AWS Mainframe
Modernization provides the necessary tools for organizations to
take full advantage of the elasticity, scalability, and reliability
of AWS, while also saving time and money.”
AWS Mainframe Modernization is generally available today in US
East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada
(Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and South America
(São Paulo) with availability in additional AWS Regions in the
coming months.
TCS helps enterprises across the world pursue their innovation,
growth, and transformation using AWS. TCS’s AWS Business Unit—a
full-stack, multidisciplinary group—offers end-to-end consulting
and implementation services and solutions around cloud migration,
application and data modernization, managed services, and
industry-specific innovation. “Mainframe applications are often the
biggest hurdles to digital transformation. Using our Assessment and
Migration Factory for AWS Mainframe Modernization, we are helping
clients draw up their migration strategy and accelerating their
transition to the cloud,” said Krishna Mohan, Global Head of AWS
Business Unit at TCS. “Our Assessment and Migration Factory
leverages our deep domain expertise in mainframe workload
migration, domain-specific reference architectures, and best
practices for mainframe modernization to provide clients a faster
and surer pathway to transform their mainframe workloads and run
them on AWS.”
Infosys Public Services, a U.S. headquartered subsidiary of
Infosys (NYSE: INFY), is a leader in next-generation digital
services and consulting. “Refactoring mainframe code bases and
rehosting mainframe-based applications remain popular modernization
approaches for public sector organizations looking to realize the
benefits of the cloud and retain the years of business knowledge
built into their systems,” said Eric Paternoster, President and CEO
at Infosys Public Services. “The AWS Mainframe Modernization
service allows us to deliver these benefits to our clients. It has
strengthened our already extensive mainframe modernization
capabilities and enables us to build modern, scalable, digitally
native applications faster—and at a lower cost and risk. For
example, we are leveraging AWS services to automate and accelerate
the migration of core COBOL-based applications into Java-based
applications for a public sector transportation provider. The new
applications are more scalable, easier to maintain, and are
reducing cost of maintenance for the organization. We are excited
about working with AWS in helping public sector organizations
modernize their mainframe applications at speed with the AWS
Mainframe Modernization service.”
CGI is among the world’s largest business and strategic IT
consulting services firms, with intellectual property-based
solutions transforming clients’ businesses globally. “CGI’s leading
wealth management solution in Canada—Funds360—leveraged AWS
Mainframe Modernization to transform into a modern, digitally
enabled, and service-based application, while maintaining and
enhancing all functional capabilities,” said Len Brooks, Vice
President, Global Wealth Solutions at CGI. “The combination of
CGI's capabilities with AWS Mainframe Modernization has delivered
modern, best-in class-software, while minimizing disruption and
de-risking implementation.”
About Amazon Web Services
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continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
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customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest
enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power
their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn
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