#aws-transform
Buried in the today-updated AWS service terms:

"AWS Transform. By using AWS Transform, you agree to run the transformed workload on AWS for a minimum of 24 months from the date that the transformation is complete."
May 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
✨New✨ from @quinnypig.com: an update to AWS’s service terms contains some, er, concerning language about AWS Transform... www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-tra...
The One-Way Door of AWS Transform: a Secret 24-month Lock-Up
At the same time as AWS Transform has hit General Availability, AWS updated its service terms with a new requirement.
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May 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
AWS Transform integrates with AI coding agents via Model Context Protocol to enable migration planning and execution directly within developer workflows.
Migrate faster with AWS Transform and your AI coding agent
AWS Transform integrates with AI coding agents via Model Context Protocol to enable migration planning and execution directly within developer workflows.
aws-news.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:54 PM
So weird that they didn’t acknowledge this in the blog posts announcing AWS Transform.
May 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
📰 New article by Souma Suvra Ghosh, Nick Sciarrilli, Sudeesh Sasidharan, Tim Gray

Forward engineering AWS Transform-generated business requirements with OpenAI Codex

#AWS #Migrations #Modernization
Forward engineering AWS Transform-generated business requirements with OpenAI Codex
This post is co-written with Sudeesh Sasidharan and Nick Sciarrilli from OpenAI AWS Transform for mainframe handles the reverse engineering of the critical business logic embedded in your COBOL, PL/I, and JCL codebase, discovering business functions, extracting business rules with source-line traceability, and generating technology-agnostic requirements in a structured format. Modernization at enterprise scale demands [...]
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September 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
📰 New article by Diego Dalmolin, Jonathan Shapiro-Ward

Migrate faster with AWS Transform and your AI coding agent

#AWS #Migrations #Modernization
Migrate faster with AWS Transform and your AI coding agent
Introduction If you already work with an AI coding agent, you know how much they can do. Tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor read repositories, reason over code, and drive multi-step tasks from an IDE or terminal. They’re excellent general-purpose AI coding agents, built to help with everyday software development tasks. But planning and [...]
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September 24, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Guide to resolving PV driver and boot failures when migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS Xen-based EC2 instances using AWS Transform MGN.
Migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS: Resolving PV Driver Issues and Boot Failures
Guide to resolving PV driver and boot failures when migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS Xen-based EC2 instances using AWS Transform MGN.
aws-news.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:59 AM
This is a REALLY good quality-of-life improvement for Step Functions.

Instead of 6 ways to transform data, you now have JSONata with variables that you can read and write throughout the state machine.
Simplifying developer experience with variables and JSONata in AWS Step Functions | Amazon Web Services
This post is written by Uma Ramadoss, Principal Specialist SA, Serverless and Dhiraj Mahapatro, Principal Specialist SA, Amazon Bedrock AWS Step Functions is introducing variables and JSONata data…
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November 22, 2024 at 9:14 PM
🌟A big shoutout to AWS for sponsoring Global Game Jam 2025!☁️

Amazon Web Services has been providing world-leading cloud technologies that help any organization and any individual build solutions to transform industries, communities, and lives for the better.

#AWS #GameDev
January 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jost*.

Talking about how Thompson Reuters used AWS Transform to migrate a bunch of .NET applications, and how great the experience was. "It generated fewer errors than other things" is the effusive praise he's delivering. "Success rate was higher." Zero numbers given. For a reason.
July 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
📰 New article by Direesh Peddineni, Shyam Sunder Rakhecha

Migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS: Resolving PV Driver Issues and Boot Failures

#AWS #Migrations #Modernization
Migrating Windows Server 2008 to AWS: Resolving PV Driver Issues and Boot Failures
Overview Many organizations still run Windows Server 2008 workloads that cannot be upgraded before migration due to application dependencies, vendor support constraints, or licensing limitations. When migrating these servers to AWS using AWS Transform MGN, the choice of target Amazon EC2 instance type determines which drivers the guest operating system needs to communicate with the [...]
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September 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
When I shared the release of AWS Transform yesterday I didn't see that it came with a seemingly problematic new service term: "[…] you agree to run the transformed workload on AWS for a minimum of 24 months […]". This is quite the caveat! Check out @quinnypig.com's blog for the details.
The One-Way Door of AWS Transform: a Secret 24-month Lock-Up
At the same time as AWS Transform has hit General Availability, AWS updated its service terms with a new requirement.
buff.ly
May 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Serverless.

You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
Getting started with serverless ETL on AWS Glue - AWS Prescriptive GuidanceGetting started with serv...
Perform extract, transform, load (ETL) operations on data by using AWS Glue
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October 18, 2023 at 4:22 AM
AWS Transform and OpenAI Codex enable mainframe modernization by reverse-engineering legacy COBOL/PL/I code into business requirements, then forward-engineering them into cloud-native microservices with full traceability and automated validation.
Forward engineering AWS Transform-generated business requirements with OpenAI Codex
AWS Transform and OpenAI Codex enable mainframe modernization by reverse-engineering legacy COBOL/PL/I code into business requirements, then forward-engineering them into cloud-native microservices with full traceability and automated validation.
aws-news.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
If you yawn when you hear AWS Transform and skip that news because you aren't running mainframes, VMware, or .NET, take another look at this fresh AWS re:Invent announcement:

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...

#AWS #reInvent
Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization | Amazon Web Services
Modernize applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization's patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through b...
aws.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Amazon CEO calls GenAI a once-in-a-lifetime shift reshaping their retail, AWS, and advertising businesses.

He believes AI agents will transform work and shopping.

Also that they will need fewer employees as tasks automate. He urges employees to learn AI to stay relevant.
Message from CEO Andy Jassy: Some thoughts on Generative AI
The message below was shared with Amazon employees earlier today.
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June 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🆕 AWS Transform now assesses detached storage, helping customers analyze on-premises storage for TCO migration to AWS, offering detailed recommendations for Amazon S3, EBS, and FSx. Available in US East and Europe. Visit AWS Transform for more.

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AWS Transform assessments now includes detached storage
AWS Transform expands its assessment capability with a new storage analysis feature, helping customers analyze their on-premises detached storage infrastructure and determine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for migrating to AWS. AWS Transform assessment now evaluates customers' existing storage infrastructure, including Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), file servers, object storage, and virtual environments, providing detailed migration recommendations to AWS services such as Amazon S3 for object storage, Amazon EBS for block storage, and Amazon FSx for specialized file systems. The assessment delivers a comprehensive TCO comparison between current and AWS environments, along with performance and cost optimization recommendations for compute and storage workloads. With storage accounting for up to 45% of total migration opportunities, AWS Transform assessment helps customers visualize the benefits of different AWS migration options. AWS Transform assessments is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). To get started, visit the AWS Transform web experience.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM