During re:Invent, AWS today announced updates for AWS Transform. This is a service it has built to tackle so-called tech debt within organizations. AWS claims that the new (agentic) additions make it even faster and easier to modernize and migrate outdated environments.
AWS Transform is not new. The company announced the service earlier this year. The idea is simple: many organizations are stuck with outdated applications and stacks. These need to be brought up to date. However, that is easier said than done. In practice, it takes a lot of time and human effort, for example because the documentation is very limited or non-existent, but also because transferring code from one framework to another is not a straightforward process.
According to AWS, the first version of AWS Transform (made generally available earlier this year) has already yielded considerable results. AWS claims that it has already analyzed some 1.1 billion lines of code. That is the…
