Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping enterprises reduce technical debt and accelerate large-scale application modernization through its agentic AI-based service, AWS Transform.
AWS announced Thursday that since the official launch of AWS Transform in May last year, customers have analyzed more than 1.8 billion lines of code, saving 1.009 million hours of manual work. This is equivalent to approximately 483 years of work for a single developer.
AWS Transform is an agentic AI-powered migration and modernization platform designed to automate the entire process from application analysis to code conversion, testing, and deployment.
The service supports full-stack Windows modernization, including .NET application modernization, SQL Server database migration to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and legacy UI framework and deployment process improvements. This enables customers to achieve up to five times faster migration speeds while reducing operational costs by up to 70%.
AWS offers AWS Transform Custom to automate repetitive code upgrades and runtime transitions. The service also provides ready-to-use transformation capabilities for common scenarios such as Java, Node.js, and Python upgrades. For mainframe environments, AWS Transform shortens modernization timelines through automated analysis and testing. For VMware environments, it automates application dependency analysis and migration planning to support large-scale transitions.
AWS views AWS Transform as instrumental in helping enterprises reduce technical debt—the practice of choosing quick-fix solutions for faster releases, which leads to greater code modifications and maintenance costs down the road. Global consulting firm Accenture estimates that technical debt costs approximately $2.41 trillion annually in the United States alone.
Global data services company Experian used AWS Transform to modernize seven legacy .NET applications, saving approximately 300 days of engineering work. Identity technology firm IDEMIA completed its modernization four times faster than before.
AWS is offering "Composable Transformation" tailored to industry-specific requirements. The company plans to support regulated industries such as finance and healthcare by incorporating industry-specific knowledge into the modernization process.