Lift-and-shift migrations are never glamorous. But they’re often the right first step — get out of the datacenter, then modernize in the cloud where iteration is cheap. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) handles the replication …

Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ sounds straightforward — “it’s just managed RabbitMQ.” Until you hit the first incompatibility. And the second. And the third. I’ve run enough of these migrations to know that the official docs …

BigQuery migrations are happening at scale. Post-2023 pricing changes led to 25–265% cost increases for many customers, GCP incentive packages are expiring, and enterprises are re-evaluating their data platform strategy. I’ve been …

Picture a sprawling enterprise catalog system, born in an era when monolithic applications ruled. It processes thousands of product queries daily across multiple regions. It has served its purpose for years — but it’s now showing its …

Originally published on the AWS Builder Center. Republished here with light formatting adjustments. TL;DR — Transformation isn’t new; AI just makes it faster. The same five-phase framework (Assessment → Target roadmap → Preparation → …