In today’s era of digital transformation, the mainframe’s continuity stands out against a backdrop of the constant change in global enterprise IT. To achieve digital transformation, CTOs and CIOs are under pressure to make their organization more agile, more flexible and lead organization to become more efficient, digital and competitive to stay ahead in this fast-evolving business environment
A lot of companies are migrating from legacy mainframe systems to modern cloud networks in recent times. This migration is a complicated process that consists of many steps like discover, access, migrate, test and operate in a cloud environment. But more often, companies end up facing several technical hurdles while migrating to the cloud.
AWS has gone the extra mile to offer a unique platform service that will enable customers to migrate their on- premise mainframe workloads into a fully customizable runtime environment in AWS. This will ensure all the above- mentioned steps are already done by AWS certified partners. Some of the popular businesses that have already benefited from this unique service offering are New York Times, U.S Department of Defense, ARRAY Information Technology, etc.
Why modernize to AWS
Scarcity of Domain Expertise
Most of the modern technological workforce lack the required skill set necessary for working in Legacy mainframe technology. Since this is considered as an outdated technology, only a few people are studying it. It will be difficult to find the right talent required to manage your legacy mainframe systems in the long run.
Limited Flexibility
Cloud is both flexible and Scalable whereas mainframe is not. A report by IDC shows that businesses that migrated to AWS has witnessed a 51% reduction of their operating cost and also their downtime is largely reduced by 94%.
Very High Costs
Bare metal servers or traditional servers are highly expensive to install and also to manage. Operating costs will eat into the company profit margins. This is where smart businesses migrate to AWS to reduce their operating costs and increase the profitability of the business.
Core Features of AWS Modernization service Analyzer
Analyzer enable developers to use artificial intelligence, knowledge and analysis that are required for migration. Analyzer will help developers to asses, scope and plan migration and modernization of mainframe applications into cloud. Analyzer will highlight the application dependencies and complexities.
Developer IDE
AWS modernization service offers a feature-rich and on-demand IDE that enables developers to write code faster. Some of the standout features of this IDE are smart editing, instant code compilation, debugging and unit testing. This developer IDE is available for both the refactor and replatform patterns on demand.
Managed Runtime
The Managed Runtime offered by the Aws modernization service continuously tracks the clusters to manage enterprise level workloads running with self-healing compute and automatic scaling.
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