AWS enlists partners to encourage mainframe-to-cloud migration
AWS has turned up the drumbeat to move workloads off of the mainframe and into its cloud. At its weeks-long re:Invent virtual event, Amazon Web Services said it would soon expand its AWS Competency Program to include even more services to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud. The services are an expansion of mainframe migration services AWS has had on its menu for the past few years.[Get regul
arly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] AWS says its Competency Program is designed to identify, validate, and promote AWS partners with demonstrated technical expertise in a given area. In this case users looking to migrate will have access to products and services from core AWS partners, the company wrote in a blog about the new service.To read this article in full, please click here
Author: Michael Cooney
Date: 2020-12-04
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