Kyndryl, the world’s leading IT infrastructure services provider, has announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Premier Tier Services Partner. The objective is to facilitate and expedite customers’ mainframe modernization endeavors. This alliance introduces new capabilities aimed at seamlessly integrating mainframe applications and data with AWS technologies, as well as transitioning mainframe workloads to AWS.

Key Highlights of the Collaboration:

Support for AWS Mainframe Modernization Service: Kyndryl now endorses the AWS Mainframe Modernization service, a unique platform enabling customers to migrate and modernize on-premises mainframe applications into a cloud-native, fully managed runtime environment on AWS. Leveraging their expertise, Kyndryl will assist customers in managing intricate transformation initiatives more efficiently.
New Capabilities Introduced by Kyndryl:
- Kyndryl Cloud Native Services (KCNS) for Mainframe Modernization: A platform designed to streamline lifecycle management across various platforms, ensuring consistent provisioning, compliance, backup, and monitoring for mainframe applications and infrastructure components.
- Application Replatforming/Refactoring via DevSecOps Integration: Enhancing developer agility on both mainframe and AWS platforms, accelerating the modernization process.
- Application Refactoring for Migration: Kyndryl migration experts will optimize mainframe applications as microservices within a cloud-native environment.
- Near Real-Time Data Replication: Facilitating data replication between the mainframe and AWS to enhance analytical insights from integrated data sources.
Integration with Kyndryl Bridge: Integration of AWS environments with Kyndryl Bridge open integration platform provides real-time visibility and actionable insights into operational data, aiding customers in better planning and leveraging mainframe applications and data in the cloud for improved business outcomes.

Mark Darmer, CIO of State of Arizona DES, praised AWS and Kyndryl for their assistance in the State of Arizona Department of Economic Security’s modernization journey, highlighting their innovative contributions.

Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Leader at the Futurum Group, commended Kyndryl’s collaboration with AWS, underscoring its significance in optimizing workloads across cloud and mainframe environments.

Petra Goude, Kyndryl Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud, expressed delight in expanding their alliance with AWS, highlighting the benefits of integrating mainframe applications and data with AWS or transitioning them, empowering businesses with cloud automation and enhanced IT environment insights.

Bill Platt, General Manager for Migration Services at AWS, emphasized the comprehensive approach offered by AWS Mainframe Modernization service in modernizing mainframe applications, showcasing how joint efforts with Kyndryl enable customers to accelerate business value.

The collaboration between Kyndryl and AWS aims to provide customers with a holistic approach to modernizing mainframe applications, offering the tools and expertise necessary to assess, modernize, and create migration plans for accelerated business outcomes.