Many enterprises still rely on mission-critical applications running on legacy mainframes—but rising operating costs, long release cycles, and limited scalability make modernization an urgent priority. AWS Mainframe Modernization provides a comprehensive, cloud-native set of managed tools to help organizations migrate, transform, and run mainframe workloads with confidence.

The service supports multiple modernization patterns, offering toolsets for refactoring and replatforming, integrated application testing, and fully managed runtime environments. With pay-as-you-go pricing, elastic infrastructure, and automation built into every stage of the journey, teams can accelerate time to value while reducing operational overhead.

By combining mature tooling, trusted expertise, and proven methodology, AWS enables organizations to boost agility, strengthen availability, and spark innovation—whether they’re augmenting existing mainframes or executing full migrations to the cloud.

Key points covered:

• How AWS helps reduce mainframe operating costs

• Increased agility through automated testing and faster release cycles

• Enhanced resilience with fully managed, high-availability cloud runtimes

• A unified toolset to assess, transform, test, and run mainframe applications