Systems integrator (SI) Caylent announced new migration paths for VMware and hyperscaler customers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.

The Caylent Accelerate for Cloud Migration is touted as a purpose-built migration from VMware, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure to AWS. Through an automating of dependency mapping, code conversion, and migration planning, the company is claiming to tackle migratory bottlenecks, with McKinsey reporting nearly 40% of companies experience delays of more than a quarter during cloud migration.

Built on Amazon’s Bedrock AI builder, the migration tool is claimed to automate AWS Application Migration Service, while changing virtual machine (VM) metadata into optimized AWS launch templates.

The Accelerate offering is also said to produce Terraform code that defines the AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring the resulting environment is repeatable and ready for future changes. In addition, Caylent touted AI-powered health checks and dependency validations to minimize downtime and lessen errors, including a disaster recovery strategy aligning with client recovery time/point objective (RTO/RPO) needs.

With the company announcement underlining its leveraging of AWS Transform for VMware while claiming to cut operating expenses “from escalating VMware costs,” Caylent is making a clear play for the increasingly disgruntled VMware community as Broadcom pivots its subsidiary to a subscription-based model.

Broadcom’s recent licensing changes put a stop to cloud providers from reselling VMware subscriptions, meaning clients must now buy licenses directly from VMware’s parent and bring them to their cloud provider.

Gartner recently warned that VMware will lose 35% of workloads by 2028, with hyperscalers such as AWS proving an attractive proposition for current clientele.

AWS currently hosts VMware Cloud, but is no longer able to distribute the service at Broadcom’s insistence.

More harmony can be found between Broadcom and Microsoft, allowing users of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to use their licenses on the Azure VMware Solution platform.

Broadcom also tapped Google Cloud last year as its first hyperscale cloud partner for VCF licensing.