Moving to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud gives organizations access to speed, scalability, and compute power while also lowering costs. But to deliver the kind of services today’s customers want, they must also modernize their legacy applications.
For most companies, that’s a tall order. It requires not only time-consuming planning and testing but also expertise in cloud technology. Businesses that recently migrated to AWS often don’t have the in-house skills to modernize efficiently — or to select the services best suited to their needs from more than 200 AWS offerings. The more time they spend dithering around in the cloud, the more downtime and disruption they incur. And in the meantime, they are unable to develop competitive capabilities that led them to the cloud in the first place.
Working with an experienced cloud consultant such as Virtusa, a premier AWS partner, relieves companies of the burdens of modernization and enables them to jump-start their cloud operations. Virtusa is certified in AWS’s Modernization Acceleration (ModAX) methodology, which expedites modernization by efficiently analyzing a company’s needs and presenting teams with easy-to-understand options. ModAX also streamlines modernization processes to enable production at scale.
Virtusa benefits from extensive experience in working with legacy applications across industries, ranging from financial services to healthcare and life sciences, telecommunications, and media. That expertise enables it to reverse-engineer applications that may have been written 15 or 20 years ago and lack documentation. Virtusa creates diagrams explaining how these applications work and what’s needed to transform them to enable cloud capabilities.
In addition, Virtusa has proprietary cutting-edge tools, such as Virtusa Helio, that speed modernization. Powered by Amazon Q Developer, Helio uses generative artificial intelligence to analyze legacy code, generate a transformation plan, and complete the transformation tasks suggested by the plan. It also identifies inefficient code components and switches them into new language frameworks, strengthening security protocols along the way. Once this process is complete, companies can review the new code before accepting the changes.
Virtusa’s modernization expertise enables companies to deliver in-demand services to customers much faster than they could do on their own. For example, a bank whose applications were bogged down with legacy technology ran into stumbling blocks when it attempted to provide the “open banking” services customers wanted. Open banking enables account holders to securely share their financial information with other banks and third-party providers through application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling them to prove creditworthiness, speed funding, or use popular financial management applications.
Virtusa designed and implemented an AWS cloud-native architecture tailored to the bank’s specific needs and incorporated APIs that enable smooth third-party integrations. In addition to drawing more customers, the bank has become more agile, collaborating with a variety of fintechs and other partners. It has reduced the launch time for new services from three months to two weeks.
Virtusa’s modernization services also help keep businesses up and running. When the website of an online company supplying food and supplements for pets repeatedly failed — sometimes for up to 12 hours — Virtusa refactored mission-critical applications and created a robust, scalable, and secure environment with AWS Control Tower. The company now has a unified view of the entire cloud infrastructure, and its website availability is 99.999%.
Modernization doesn’t have to be a struggle. By working with Virtusa, you can save time, reduce disruption, and rapidly create the cloud-based products your customers are clamoring for.
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