Document history for the AWS Transform User Guide
The following table describes the document history for the AWS Transform User Guide.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Brownfield network: existing VPCs visibility | Added existing VPC detection during network migration review. AWS Transform automatically detects VPCs already deployed in your target account and flags CIDR conflicts with your mapped VPCs. See Existing VPCs in your target account. | May 18, 2026 |
Added skills format, client-side skills, and subagent logs for AWS Transform custom | Transformation definitions now use the skills format ( | May 11, 2026 |
Added source code containerization | AWS Transform can now containerize your applications using generative AI. Provide your source code from Git repositories or zip uploads, and AWS Transform analyzes it, generates Docker artifacts, publishes container images to Amazon ECR, generates infrastructure as code, and deploys to Amazon Elastic Container Service or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. See Source code containerization. | May 7, 2026 |
Added network optimization operations and guided recommendations | Added Step 5: Review and optimize network, with VPC and subnet operations (delete, exclude, merge, split, resize, rename, change IP address) and guided recommendations for naming standardization, scope review, capacity right-sizing, security review, and VPC consolidation. See Review and optimize network. | April 27, 2026 |
AWS Transform custom available in 6 new regions | Added support for ca-central-1, eu-west-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-2, and ap-south-1 in AWS Transform custom. | April 21, 2026 |
Updated connector permissions documentation | Added detailed permissions breakdown for the target AWS account connector, covering S3, MGN, Migration Hub permissions, workload migration, and landing zone infrastructure provisioning. See Connect target AWS accounts. | April 19, 2026 |
Updated VMware migration job types | Added Discovery and migration planning, Landing zone, and Landing zone, network, and server migration job types. Renamed Network migration only to Network migration and Migration planning to Build migration plan. See VMware migration job types. | April 19, 2026 |
Restructured Connect target AWS accounts | Restructured the connector setup into three steps: Migration type selection, MAP agreement, and Connector configuration, including supported target regions, account roles, delegated administrator guidance, and IAM roles. See Connect target AWS accounts. | April 19, 2026 |
Added additional server-migration-only target regions | Documented 14 additional commercial regions available for server migration jobs without network migration, with allow-list requirement until Q3 2026. See Supported target regions. | April 19, 2026 |
Added Migrate servers chapter | Added new Migrate servers chapter covering the full rehost workflow including account structure, IAM roles, delegated administrator setup, replication agent deployment, testing, and cutover. | April 19, 2026 |
Added Build landing zone chapter | Added new Build landing zone chapter with connector permissions details for landing zone provisioning. | April 19, 2026 |
Security groups mapping and referencing | Added security groups mapping strategies (MAP, MAP_DHCP, SKIP) and security group referencing documentation to Migrate network. | April 13, 2026 |
Auto-conversion for unsupported network file types | Added support for automatic conversion of unsupported network configuration file types in Migrate network. | April 6, 2026 |
Added KMS key policy for database migration | Added Encryption for database migration section. | March 26, 2026 |
Documented new AWS managed policy | Added DBModProvisioningAndMigration section. | March 24, 2026 |
Documented new AWS managed policy | Added DBModDiscoveryAndAssessment section. | March 24, 2026 |
Network diagram generation | Added optional network diagram generation (Mermaid and PNG formats) to Migrate network. | March 18, 2026 |
Firewall and SDN configuration file support | Added support for Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate, and Cisco ACI configuration files for network migration in Migrate network. | February 11, 2026 |
Custom tagging for network resources | Added job-level and VPC-level custom tagging support for network migration in Migrate network. | January 28, 2026 |
Added support documentation | Added AWS support for section. | December 23, 2025 |
Documented new AWS managed policies | Added AWSTransformCustomFullAccess, AWSTransformCustomExecuteTransformations, and AWSTransformCustomManageTransformations sections. | December 7, 2025 |
VMware migration | Updated the VMware migration section. | December 1, 2025 |
Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the AWSServiceRoleForAWSTransform documentation to reflect added permissions. | December 1, 2025 |
Supported regions | Updated the Supported regions topic. | December 1, 2025 |
Mainframe modernization | Updated the Mainframe modernization section. | December 1, 2025 |
Getting Startedy | Updated the Getting Started topic. | December 1, 2025 |
Full-stack Windows modernization | Added the Full-stack Windows modernization topic, which includes the updated .NETsection and the new SQL Server modernization section. | December 1, 2025 |
Discovery tool | Added the Discovery tool section. | December 1, 2025 |
Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the AWSTransformApplicationECSDeploymentPolicy with expanded IAM role inspection permissions, ECS service-linked role creation, and KMS permissions for ECR encryption support. | November 22, 2025 |
Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the AWSTransformApplicationDeploymentPolicy with additional EC2 networking, IAM role inspection, S3 bucket management, and KMS encryption permissions. | November 22, 2025 |
Discovery collector | Added the AWS Transform discovery tool> documentation. | October 31, 2025 |
VMware migration architecture diagram added | Added a VMware migration architecture diagram in Migrate network. | October 23, 2025 |
VMware migration results update | Updated migration results information in Migrate network. | October 12, 2025 |
VMware migration results update | Updated migration results information in Migrate network. | October 12, 2025 |
S3 connector documentation | Added S3 connector documentation for .NET web app. | October 8, 2025 |
New user connectors topic | Added user connectors topic. | September 21, 2025 |
Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the AWSServiceRoleForAWSTransform documentation. | September 17, 2025 |
Storage assessment support | Added NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) file support for storage assessments. | September 2, 2025 |
Target regions update | Added three supported target regions. | August 31, 2025 |
Managed policy update | Added IAM Identity Center read-only permisions to be used by AWSServiceRoleForAWSTransform. | August 29, 2025 |
Documented new AWS managed policy | Added AWSTransformApplicationDeploymentPolicy section. | August 28, 2025 |
interface endpoints | Added interface endpoints topic. | July 9, 2025 |
Initial release | Initial release of the AWS Transform User Guide. | May 15, 2025 |
