Change log
The following table describes notable releases and updates for AWS Transform.
| Date | Title | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-04 | AWS Transform discovery tool now supported as network migration input source | You can now use the AWS Transform discovery tool as a source for network migration alongside modelizeIT, enabling hybrid network migrations for environments running both VMware and non-VMware workloads. | User Guide |
| 2026-05-27 | AWS Transform custom documentation adds client-side skill examples and best practices | The client-side skills documentation now includes practical examples for Dockerfile compliance, database migration safety, Terraform policy enforcement, and API deprecation helpers, along with best practices for building and sharing skills. | Documentation |
| 2026-05-22 | New agentic migration assessment capabilities now available with AWS Transform | AWS Transform now offers advanced migration assessment capabilities including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, flexible file format support, and multiple new total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment features. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-20 | AWS Transform detects existing VPCs during network migration review | AWS Transform now detects existing VPCs in your target account during network migration review. You can see existing VPCs alongside your mapped VPCs, identify CIDR conflicts, and resolve them before deployment. | Documentation |
| 2026-05-14 | AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex | AWS Transform agents are now accessible through a Kiro power, agent plugins, and the AWS Transform MCP server, letting developers consume transformation capabilities directly from their preferred development environment. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-14 | AWS Transform introduces the agent builder toolkit for building customized transformation agents | Partners and customers can now build, share, and register specialized transformation agents using the agent builder toolkit Kiro power, integrating custom tools and workflows with AWS Transform. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-14 | AWS Transform adds agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio | .NET developers can now modernize applications through a conversational, step-by-step guided experience directly in Visual Studio, with full context preserved across IDE and web console. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-14 | AWS Transform now supports customer-owned artifact stores | You can configure your own Amazon S3 bucket and optionally encrypt artifacts with your own AWS KMS key, giving full control over where transformation artifacts are stored. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-11 | AWS Transform adds containerization capability during migrations | AWS Transform now supports replatforming applications to containers during migration, automating Dockerfile generation, container image builds with CVE scanning, and deployment to Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS. | What's New post |
| 2026-05-01 | AWS Transform now offers BI migration agents for Power BI and Tableau to Quick | Partner-built agents from Wavicle Data Solutions convert Power BI and Tableau dashboards to Quick assets within the AWS Transform workflow. | What's New post |
| 2026-04-21 | AWS Transform custom is now available in six additional AWS Regions | AWS Transform custom expands to Asia Pacific, Canada, and Europe (London), reaching a total of eight AWS Regions. | What's New post |
| 2026-04-15 | AWS Transform adds landing zone creation within migration workflows | Added landing zone creation directly within migration workflows. AWS Transform checks for an existing foundation, recommends Organizational Unit (OU) structures and target accounts, and offers fully automated deployment or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) output (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) formats). | What's New post |
| 2026-04-14 | AWS Transform is now available in Kiro and VS Code | AWS Transform custom transformations are now accessible from Kiro and VS Code, with job state shared across IDE, CLI, and web console surfaces. | What's New post |
| 2026-04-10 | AWS Transform adds DHCP with security group mapping for network migration | Added support for DHCP with security group mapping during network migration. If you have DHCP-enabled migration workloads, you can now ensure your security rules remain valid after migration. This applies to both in-VPC security group referencing and cross-VPC and cross-account outbound rules via Transit Gateway. | Documentation |
| 2026-03-31 | AWS Transform custom announces general availability of automated codebase analysis | The comprehensive codebase analysis transformation reaches general availability, generating architecture docs, technical debt reports, and modernization recommendations across any language. | What's New post |
| 2026-03-31 | AWS Transform custom introduces new managed transformations to modernize code at scale | Seven new managed transformations added, including Node.js upgrades (general availability), Java optimization, Log4j migration, Angular-to-React, Angular upgrades, and Vue upgrades (early access). | What's New post |
| 2026-03-20 | AWS Transform adds public APIs for network migration | Added public APIs for network migration, enabling partner and programmatic access to network migration capabilities. | API Reference |
| 2026-01-14 | AWS Transform custom adds AWS PrivateLink support and expands to Europe (Frankfurt) | AWS Transform custom now supports private VPC access via AWS PrivateLink and is available in Europe (Frankfurt) in addition to US East (N. Virginia). | What's New post |
| 2025-12-23 | AWS Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations | AWS Transform for VMware automatically converts hybrid data center network configs (VLANs, IP ranges) to AWS VPCs, subnets, and security groups without manual mapping. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS launches AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide modernization | AWS Transform custom reaches general availability, enabling organizations to automate repeatable code transformations at scale via a single CLI command. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS Transform adds new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations | AWS Transform's VMware agent can now discover on-premises environments, map dependencies, generate migration wave plans, and migrate across HyperV, Nutanix, KVM, and bare-metal targets. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS Transform launches an AI agent for full-stack Windows modernization | A new full-stack Windows agent automates transformation of .NET apps and SQL Server databases to Aurora PostgreSQL, deploying to containers on Amazon ECS or EC2 Linux. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS Transform expands .NET transformation capabilities and enhances developer experience | AWS Transform adds .NET 10 support, ASP.NET Web Forms to Blazor porting, and an enhanced interactive IDE experience via AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new testing automation capabilities | AWS Transform for mainframe introduces automated test plan generation, test data collection scripts, and test case automation to accelerate mainframe modernization testing. | What's New post |
| 2025-12-01 | AWS Transform for mainframe now supports application reimagining | New data and activity analysis plus business logic extraction capabilities enable decomposition of legacy mainframe applications into cloud-native architectures. | What's New post |
| 2025-11-13 | AWS Transform automates Landing Zone Accelerator network configuration | AWS Transform for VMware auto-generates LZA-compatible network YAML files, streamlining multi-account cloud infrastructure setup from VMware environments. | What's New post |
| 2025-07-16 | AWS Transform for mainframe introduces enhanced code refactoring and business logic capabilities | AWS Transform for mainframe adds general availability of reforge (code restructuring) and expanded application-level business logic extraction to improve code quality. | What's New post |
| 2025-05-15 | AWS Transform for VMware is now generally available | AWS Transform for VMware, an agentic AI service automating the full VMware modernization lifecycle from discovery through deployment, reaches general availability. | What's New post |
| 2025-05-15 | AWS Transform for mainframe is now generally available | AWS Transform for mainframe, the first agentic AI service for modernizing IBM z/OS applications at scale, reaches general availability with new analysis, decomposition, and job management capabilities. | What's New post |
