Announcing refactor environment automation for Application Migration Service

Today, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched an SSM automation document for use as an AWS Application Migration Service post launch action. Refactor Spaces provides the AWS infrastructure for incrementally refactoring to microservices that reduces risk when evolving applications, accelerates team agility, and ensures deployment independence. Refactor Spaces’ SSM document automates the creation of a refactor environment and routing traffic to your application running on EC2, so you can continue modernizing as soon as you’ve migrated an application. Using the Refactor Spaces SSM document as a custom post-migration action removes the guesswork of deciding the next steps for modernization. Once an application is migrated to EC2 with Application Migration Service, the app is automatically placed in a Refactor Spaces environment and is ready to modernize using the strangler-fig pattern. You can quickly launch new features in Lambda, ECS, or EKS or safely and incrementally move traffic to new services without touching the existing app. This new predefined post-launch action is available in [all Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/migrationhub-refactor-spaces.html) Refactor Spaces is available. To get started automating the setup of your refactor environment, navigate to the Application Migration Service’s [Post-launch template page](https://console.aws.amazon.com/mgn/home?postLaunchTemplate#/postLaunchTemplate), and search for the “Enable Refactor Spaces” card in the Actions section. See the following resources to learn more: * [Tutorial: Using Refactor Spaces with AWS Application Migration Service](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub-refactor-spaces/latest/userguide/mgn-tutorial.html) * [Predefined post-launch actions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mgn/latest/ug/predefined-post-launch-actions.html) * [Refactor Spaces CloudFormation samples](https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-migration-hub-refactor-spaces-samples/)