AWS Mainframe Modernization makes it faster and
easier for customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to
the cloud and benefit from the superior agility, elasticity, and
cost savings of AWS
Banco Inter, Accenture, and DXC Technology
among customers and partners using AWS Mainframe Modernization
Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Mainframe
Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for
customers to migrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud,
and enjoy the superior agility, elasticity, and cost savings of
AWS. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor their
mainframe workloads to run on AWS by transforming legacy
applications into modern Java-based cloud services. Alternatively,
customers can keep their applications as written and re-platform
their workloads to AWS reusing existing code with minimal changes.
A runtime environment built into AWS Mainframe Modernization
provides the necessary compute, memory, and storage to run both
refactored and replatformed applications and automatically handles
the details of capacity provisioning, security, load balancing,
auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Mainframe
Modernization provides all the development, testing, and deployment
tools necessary to automate the migration from mainframe and legacy
environments to AWS. Customers and systems integrators (SIs) can
use AWS Mainframe Modernization to help enterprise migration teams
assess and analyze migration readiness and plan migration projects.
There are no upfront costs for using AWS Mainframe Modernization,
and customers only pay for the amount of compute provisioned. To
learn more about AWS Mainframe Modernization, visit
aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization.
Under the best of circumstances, mainframe systems are complex,
expensive, and difficult to scale. In today’s world, applications
written for mainframe legacy systems also present significant
operational challenges to customers compounded by the dwindling
pool of engineers who specialize in these outdated technologies.
Many organizations want to migrate their legacy applications to the
cloud, but to do so they need to go through a lengthy migration
process that is made more challenging by the complexity of
mainframe applications. To migrate their mainframe workloads to
AWS, organizations typically turn to SIs to lead modernization and
migration projects. Migrating mainframe workloads to the cloud
requires multiple steps to discover, access, migrate, test, and
operate the new workload environments. Each step is complex and
requires custom or third-party tooling that must be calibrated to
each individual customer environment—before SIs can begin the
intricate task of translating mainframe subsystems into cloud
services. Aside from the migration itself, there is also the
challenge of needing to configure, run, and operate these complex
systems with modern application development and deployment best
practices in the new cloud environments. As more customers want to
modernize their infrastructure and migrate off of complex legacy
technologies, they could benefit from better tools that make it
easier for them to move to the cloud.
AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a complete development and
runtime environment that makes it faster and easier for customers
to migrate, modernize, and run their workloads on AWS. AWS
Mainframe Modernization integrates the tools needed for migrations
into a single environment to create an end-to-end migration
pipeline. With AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers can refactor
their workloads written for mainframes in legacy programming
languages (e.g. COBOL) to modern Java-based cloud services. Or,
customers can keep their workloads as written and re-platform them
to AWS with minimal code changes. Whether customers choose to
refactor or replatform their workloads, AWS Mainframe Modernization
provides a runtime environment for the migrated applications that
includes all the benefits of a fully managed service and
automatically handles capacity provisioning, security, load
balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. 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. AWS Mainframe Modernization de-risks and accelerates the
migration of mainframe and legacy workloads to AWS.
“More and more customers are modernizing their applications by
moving them to the cloud to take advantage of the elasticity and
agility of AWS and to reinvent customer experiences at a lower
cost. But, for most enterprises, migrating their mainframe
applications to the cloud is uncharted territory,” said William
Platt, General Manager of Migration Services at AWS. “With today’s
launch of AWS Mainframe Modernization, customers and systems
integrators can now more quickly modernize their legacy mainframe
workloads in a predictable way and get rid of much of the
complexity and manual work involved in migrations. AWS Mainframe
Modernization provides automation in discovery, analysis,
migration, and testing phases, and it gives customers and systems
integrators a managed runtime environment to deploy their
replatformed and refactored mainframe workloads for their
customers, which makes modernizing applications faster and
easier.”
AWS Mainframe Modernization is available in preview today in US
East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU
(Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) with availability in
additional AWS Regions in the coming months.
Established in 1994, Banco Inter is the first fully digital bank
in Brazil, which as of 2021 has served 15 million customers and
expects to double its customer base within a few years. Its mission
is to simplify banking and make it transparent and fair, with a
one-stop shop that includes day-to-day banking, investments, credit
card, insurance, loans, and even ecommerce. “The AWS Mainframe
Modernization replatforming toolchain is effective for migrating
mainframe applications to AWS with substantial cost savings,” said
Guilherme Ximenes, Chief Technology Officer at Banco Inter S.A. “By
using the AWS Mainframe Modernization managed runtime, we expect to
simplify our card processor operations for enhanced resiliency and
scalability. We are also excited by the DevOps CI/CD pipeline for
increasing the agility we need to more quickly deliver new credit
and debit card transaction capabilities to our customers.”
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading
capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. “AWS Mainframe
Modernization helps to simplify moving and managing mainframe
applications,” said Chris Wegmann, Global Technology and Practice
Lead at Accenture’s AWS Business Group. “The combination of AWS
Mainframe Modernization with Accenture’s extensive experience in
mainframe application modernization and managing mainframe
applications now provides a way for clients to realize the agility,
elasticity, and cost efficiency of AWS sooner.”
DXC Technology, a leading Fortune 500 global technology services
company, provides mission-critical IT services that transform
global businesses. “DXC is excited to be leading mainframe legacy
application transformation and modernization, partnering with AWS
on its AWS Mainframe Modernization platform,” said Rick Sullivan,
Vice President and General Manager of Applications at DXC
Technology. “DXC brings years of experience working with customers’
mainframe applications and modernization. We look forward to
leveraging the new capabilities that AWS Mainframe Modernization
will provide to complement our approach for enabling successful
mainframe transformations on AWS.”
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