What is Cloud “Replatforming”?
An Information Technology Specialist & Advisor at Magnitune Technology Services, Sreedhar Maley , certified in AWS solutions architecture, and has extensive experience modernizing and transforming legacy mainframe applications to run on modern Linux and Windows based operating environment explains "Replatforming" as another term for Transforming the applications which are normally based on traditional design conforming/limiting to on-premise, to a cloud-based application environment like AWS, Azure, or Google in the present day context.
In such initiatives, various components of the existing application are often transformed to make the application compatible, for example, with a container based architecture and/or “PaaS” architecture. Implemented with proper planning, these initiatives will result in higher availability, performance-scalability, and lower-cost of your application to your customers.
In this strategy, application code is analyzed and reports are generated which present technologies and related dependencies, and based on these findings appropriate options are chosen for replatforming the application. Often, these initiatives result in moving from traditional on-premises databases solutions like Oracle to managed database services in the cloud, for example AWS RDS Oracle, or AWS Aurora, or Google Cloud Spanner.
Cloud providers like AWS offer a number of services like DMS (Database Migration Service) to transform your data assets for use by your new cloud-ready applications. New services and solutions are added to the market-place by the cloud infrastructure vendors on a daily basis to reduce the complexity of Replatforming.