AI AWS MIGRATION Sep 03, 2026
AiThority coverage of NetApp expanding AWS Transform support to accelerate enterprise storage migrations: NetApp ONTAP integration with AWS Transform provides automated discovery, planning, and migration workflows for moving on-prem file/block workloads to AWS, a key enabler for AI-data-lake consolidation in the cloud. Frames the announcement alongside the Q1 FY27 beat as evidence that NetApp is winning the "data tier under AI workloads" position both on-prem (AIPod) and in AWS (FSx for ONTAP + Transform).
The admin lesson: if you are running AI inference or RAG pipelines in AWS and need a standardized way to migrate on-prem file shares into FSx for ONTAP, AWS Transform with NetApp integration removes one of the biggest blockers (manual data inventory + per-workload migration scripts). Use this when justifying an FSx for ONTAP footprint expansion in front of an AWS-architecture review board.