World leading enterprise organizations across every industry are driving towards a broader digital transformation agenda that is sponsored by their top leadership. Over the last decade, Cloud computing has been the driving technology that has delivered business value and competitive advantage to customers by leveraging key capabilities such as innovation, flexibility, productivity, agility, security, resiliency, cost optimizations, and risk mitigation. This article pinpoints the business and technology imperatives that are driving the need for legacy application migration and modernization from mainframe to AWS Cloud platform.