Next steps and resources

After you've become familiar with the process described in this guide, we recommend that you contact your AWS account team and schedule a consultation with mainframe modernization experts.

To plan your first project:

1. Choose a candidate application.

2. Gather your source code.

3. Define clear success criteria.

To get started with AWS Transform:

1. Set up AWS Transform.

2. Try out AWS Transform by following the steps in the quick start.

3. Begin your first decomposition analysis.

Resources

• AWS Transform for mainframe (general information)

• Modernization of mainframe applications (AWS Transform documentation)

• Accelerate your mainframe modernization journey using AI agents with AWS Transform (AWS blog post)

• Modernize the CardDemo mainframe application by using AWS Transform (AWS Prescriptive Guidance)

• Modernize and deploy mainframe applications using AWS Transform and Terraform (AWS Prescriptive Guidance)

• CardDemo – Mainframe Credit Card Management Application (sample open source application)

• AWS Transform – Mainframe FAQs