Document history for the AWS Transform User Guide
The following table describes the document history for the AWS Transform User Guide.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Updated cross-region inference destinations for Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) | Updated the cross-region inference table to show that AWS Transform Chat routes inference requests originating in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) Regions to all commercial AWS Regions. For more information, see Cross-region processing. | October 27, 2026 |
Added discovery tool troubleshooting and update rollback steps | Added steps to increase the discovery tool VM memory and raise the service memory limit to the Disk and memory sizing page. Added troubleshooting for export memory errors and for the discovery tool VM running out of memory. Added troubleshooting for the | October 26, 2026 |
AWS Transform availability in AWS GovCloud (US-West) | Added AWS GovCloud (US-West) to the list of supported Regions as a migration-only Region, available when you use AWS Transform in the AWS GovCloud (US) partition. For more information, see Supported Regions. | October 18, 2026 |
Migration capabilities available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) | Added the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region (ap-southeast-1), which supports AWS Transform migration capabilities, to the supported Regions and cross-region inference tables. For more information, see Supported Regions and Cross-region processing. | October 16, 2026 |
Updated discovery tool documentation for this release | Added SQL Server direct database collection, self-update, and VM skip list documentation. SQL Server database credentials now enable collection of database count, Always On availability group, cluster role, and read-only replica information. Self-update lets you update the discovery tool in place without redeploying the appliance. The VM skip list lets you exclude specific virtual machines from VMware and Hyper-V inventory. For more information, see Set up the discovery tool and Data collection. | October 15, 2026 |
Added landing zone IaC-only flow documentation | Added a new Generate landing zone IaC without deployment page describing how to use the AWS Transform landing zone capability for organization analysis, recommendations, and Infrastructure as Code generation without direct deployment. The page covers when IaC-only mode applies (Delegated Administrator connector or Management Account with IaC-only preference), the workflow, required permissions, limitations, supported IaC formats (AWS CDK, Terraform, and Landing Zone Accelerator), and common use cases. | October 15, 2026 |
Added .NET cloud-native code conversion feature | Added the Convert cloud-native code to AWS services page to the .NET section. Also removed the preview designation for VB.NET, WinForms, WPF, and Xamarin projects which are now supported project types. | October 15, 2026 |
Added PowerShell Transcription logging note to the discovery tool setup guide | Added a note to the Windows prerequisites and WinRM setup sections describing how Windows PowerShell Transcription logging can cause rapid disk accumulation on target servers when agentless collection is enabled, and documenting the recommended GPO service account exemption as the mitigation. For more information, see Set up WinRM and WMI. | September 25, 2026 |
Cross-region inference for AWS Transform Chat in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) | Added a notice indicating that, beginning October 7, 2026, AWS Transform Chat processes inference requests originating in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) Regions across all commercial AWS Regions. Also updated the destination Regions in the cross-region inference table. For more information, see Cross-region processing. | September 16, 2026 |
Added Kerberos trace-logging aliases to the discovery tool release notes | Added a release note for release 1.0.2325 describing the | September 16, 2026 |
.NET ATX CLI and unit test generation | Updated the .NET section with a description of the ATX CLI experience. Added a unit test page describing unit test porting and automatic unit test generation features. | September 10, 2026 |
AWS GovCloud (US) Regions added as migration target Regions | Added AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) to the list of supported migration target Regions for VMware and other server migrations. These target Regions are available only when you use AWS Transform in the AWS GovCloud (US) partition. For more information, see Supported target Regions. | September 8, 2026 |
Run migrations with the AWS Transform MCP server | Added a topic describing how to plan and run AWS Transform migrations from an MCP-compatible AI assistant, such as Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, or Cline, by using the AWS Transform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The topic covers setup, authentication, the migration workflow, best practices, and example prompts. For more information, see Run migrations with the AWS Transform MCP server. | September 4, 2026 |
Updated discovery tool documentation for release 1.0.2325 | The discovery tool guide now covers disk monitoring and storage management. It also covers using Kerberos with IP addresses. The guide documents the new | September 3, 2026 |
Updated .NET agent web application experience | Restructured the .NET agent documentation to reflect an updated web application experience, connecting to repository by Personal Access Token, and transformation mode, checkpoints, and beaming features. Added guidance for choosing between the web application and IDE experiences. | September 3, 2026 |
Updated AWS managed policies for CloudFormation stack tagging | AWS Transform updated two existing AWS managed policies, | September 3, 2026 |
New AWS managed policies | AWS Transform added three new AWS managed policies: | September 3, 2026 |
Network migration adds security group modernization | While reviewing your target network, you can now create, configure, and delete security groups and rules. You can also associate a rule with a CIDR range or source VM, and enable security group referencing for a specific rule. See Review and optimize your network. | August 31, 2026 |
Migrations adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP support | AWS Transform for migrations now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a generally available block storage target, alongside Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). This capability is available in all AWS Transform supported target Regions and where Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is supported. See Configuring FSx for ONTAP as a target storage type. | August 30, 2026 |
Network migration adds security posture migration to existing VPCs | You can now apply your source security posture to VPCs you have already provisioned in AWS, instead of creating new VPCs. See Apply security posture to existing VPCs. | August 24, 2026 |
Guided network recommendations add application alignment | Guided network recommendations can now identify VPCs that host applications from multiple environments and suggest splitting them along subnet boundaries to isolate environments such as development and production. See Guided network recommendations. | August 17, 2026 |
Network migration adds stale security group rule removal | Guided network recommendations can now identify unused inbound firewall rules migrated from your on-premises environment and suggest removing them. See Guided network recommendations. | August 16, 2026 |
Connectors topic moved to Getting started | The Connectors topic has moved from the top-level navigation to the Getting started section. See Connectors. | August 8, 2026 |
Continuous modernization adds AWS Transform-managed remote execution | Continuous modernization can now run analyses on AWS Transform-managed infrastructure with nothing to provision in your account, using | August 7, 2026 |
Continuous modernization adds remote execution, scheduling, and tagging | Continuous modernization now includes | July 28, 2026 |
Continuous modernization portfolio analysis and remediation | Added new chapter documenting the AWS Transform continuous modernization feature ( | June 3, 2026 |
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 |
