Cloud migration acceleration through AI: IBM, in collaboration with AWS, has developed a generative AI-powered solution to streamline and automate cloud migration at scale, offering operational efficiencies and supporting enterprise growth.
The cloud migration landscape:
- IDC forecasts that 50% of global IT workloads will transition to the cloud within the next year.
- AWS cloud migration and modernization can lead to significant benefits, including:
- 31% average infrastructure cost savings
- 62% more efficient infrastructure management
- 3x more features delivered annually
- 69% reduction in unplanned downtime
- 43% fewer security incidents per year
Challenges in cloud adoption:
- Existing licensing costs, lack of AWS expertise, and limited resources and budgets are hindering cloud migration efforts for many companies.
- Many organizations require assistance to fully leverage the advantages of cloud and AWS native services efficiently.
IBM’s AI-powered approach:
- IBM Consulting has developed an AWS migration and modernization factory, built on the IBM Garage Methodology for app modernization.
- The approach utilizes:
- GenAI and accelerator tools
- Pre-built migration patterns
- Automation
- Squad-based, workstream-centric methods
Key components of IBM’s solution:
- GenAI-powered discovery as a service: Extracts key data elements from client repositories to expedite application discovery.
- GenAI-powered migration assist: Translates natural language questions to SQL queries for tracking migration status.
- GenAI-powered design assistant: Applies models to enhance efficiency in the design phase.
- IBM Consulting Delivery Curator (ICDC): An end-to-end delivery execution orchestration platform powered by GenAI.
AWS contributions:
- AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Migration Services complement IBM’s tools by providing additional visibility, tracking, and coordination capabilities.
Real-world application:
- Interpublic Group (IPG) successfully migrated legacy SAP workloads and applications to AWS Cloud using IBM’s Migration Factory.
- The project was completed within budget and on time, taking just four months.
- IPG also leveraged AWS native tool sets to redesign and rearchitect several key applications.
Broader implications: The collaboration between IBM and AWS demonstrates the potential for AI-powered solutions to address the complexities of cloud migration, potentially accelerating digital transformation across industries and enabling more businesses to harness the benefits of cloud computing.
IBM’s genAI-accelerated blueprint for AWS cloud migration
