BeijingJune 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Amazon Transform’s “Continuous Modernization” feature (preview). This is a new capability of Amazon Transform for continuous, autonomous technical debt analysis and remediation at scale. Amazon Transform already helps enterprises with data center migrations, mainframe and Windows application modernization, and handling undifferentiated software maintenance tasks: upgrading Java versions, replacing deprecated frameworks, and updating AWS Lambda runtimes before they reach end of life. This new experience builds on that foundation—customers can gain comprehensive visibility into the state of codebases spanning thousands of repositories, receive prioritized findings, and obtain pull requests that directly complete fixes.
Engineering teams typically consume up to 30% of IT budgets. Currently, enterprises often need to cobble together various single-purpose standalone tools: some for detecting dependency issues, others for flagging vulnerabilities, and still others for assessing code quality. However, none of the existing tools can continuously and at scale detect, prioritize, and fix technical debt. This forces enterprises into a manual, application-by-application cycle that significantly drains engineering R&D capacity. Management can only rely on self-reported status from teams to track progress, which often lags behind reality and may even mask regressions. AI-assisted development has worsened this situation: as coding agents accelerate the pace of code changes, technical debt accumulates faster than developers can keep up. Therefore, enterprises urgently need a capability that can continuously, autonomously, and at scale detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt.
Continuous Analysis
To address these challenges, this new feature in Amazon Transform automatically scans code repositories against configurable baselines, generating findings within hours (rather than weeks). Out of the box, Amazon Transform’s Continuous Modernization feature comes with built-in policies for detecting expired end-of-life dependencies, deprecated frameworks, and other common sources of technical debt. Enterprises can also extend these with organization-specific remediation patterns, such as approved libraries, internal coding standards, or technical debt policies already enforced by platform teams. For example, if a team deprecates an internal library or prefers a specific logging pattern, these requirements can be codified into policies and run continuously across all repositories.
Unlike periodic manual efforts, continuous analysis extracts the true state directly from the code. Once a repository falls behind the established baseline, the system immediately signals which components are lagging and by how much, without needing to sense how the development team ultimately chooses to resolve it. This eliminates the tedious process of periodic status checks and manual compliance tracking, providing platform teams with an always-up-to-date panoramic view of technical debt.
Autonomous Remediation at Scale
After identifying and prioritizing findings, autonomous remediation can be configured to automatically generate pull requests for affected repositories. This new Amazon Transform feature offers out-of-the-box remediation transformations for common scenarios such as Java version upgrades, SDK (Software Development Kit) migrations, and library updates. Developers can also create custom transformations for organization-specific code patterns.
When initiating a fix, the Continuous Modernization feature creates a pull request for each affected repository and sends a notification to the team responsible for that codebase, such as: “This repository has fallen behind the organization’s established baseline on this dependency. Here is a pull request to resolve the issue.” The team can then review and merge the pull request, or choose to implement their own fix. Regardless of the approach, the continuous analysis feature automatically detects changes when a fix is in place, providing reliable data without manual confirmation.
Amazon Transform’s Continuous Modernization feature is deeply integrated with Amazon Security Agent, enabling detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities at the source code level. As a result, security and compliance findings can be aggregated alongside other technical debt into the same prioritized list and pull request workflow.
Feature Experience
To get started with this feature, navigate to the Amazon Transform console. The dashboard provides an intuitive overview of all repositories within the organization and their current status relative to configured baselines.
Connect the source control system and initiate analysis against specified policies. Within hours, the analysis system returns findings across all repositories, clearly showing which repositories have fallen behind the baseline and by how much. The interface allows you to visually inspect severity levels, the number of affected files, and the specific technical debt patterns detected.
At this point, simply select a set of high-priority findings and launch a remediation activity. Amazon Transform’s Continuous Modernization feature will automatically generate pull requests for each affected repository. The progress of the entire remediation activity can be monitored in real time, including pull requests created, pull requests merged, and which repositories have been successfully restored to compliance.
A Faster Path to Modernization
The above feature supports two distinct approaches to code modernization. In continuous mode, you can leverage the Continuous Modernization feature to keep codebases up to date as technical baselines evolve. This primarily addresses routine maintenance tasks such as upgrading libraries, applying security patches, and enforcing coding standards within the enterprise.
For larger modernization projects, such as migrating from one development framework to another or upgrading major runtime versions across hundreds of applications, you can use activity mode for targeted, project-based modernization. Amazon Transform’s customization features will continue to provide highly flexible primitives for these larger-scale transformations; Amazon Transform’s Continuous Modernization feature is specifically tailored to solve the repetitive, high-volume daily tasks that platform teams face.
Now Available (Preview)
Amazon Transform Continuous Modernization (preview) is now available. Users can get started through the Amazon Transform web application, Amazon Transform Kiro Power, or by integrating with existing coding agents via MCP and Skills. For more information, please visit the Amazon Transform documentation.