NOVA modernizes and selectively refactors legacy applications for AWS. We assess your existing systems, redesign application architecture, and rehost or rebuild key components using AWS-native services. The result is software built for operational simplicity, maintainability, and long-term adaptability without shutting down live environments.
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, NOVA works across cloud engineering, DevOps, integrations, and managed services to support modernization programs end-to-end. Our teams design, build, and support AWS environments using proven patterns, with clear ownership from assessment through production and ongoing operation.
Phased Delivery with Minimal Downtime: Modernization done in stages to avoid outages and reduce risk to production systems.
Evaluate current environments, workloads, and dependencies to determine readiness for modernization. Identify refactoring scope, risk areas, and sequencing.
Why NOVA
Comfort with Legacy and Constraints: We work inside existing limits like live traffic, old code, compliance rules, and internal processes, without asking teams to stop the business.
Our Services
Increase efficiency, scalability, and security with AWS cloud solutions tailored to your business.
Gain a competitive advantage and leverage emerging technology to transform your business.
Our DevOps experts help you stay agile and launch new products, optimizing delivery pipelines.
We monitor, optimize, and secure your tech stack while keeping costs in check and performance high.
Streamline your operations and drive innovation with new integrations and software capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get clear answers to common questions about cloud modernization and refactoring with NOVA. Whether you’re planning a migration or improving existing systems, we’re here to help.
Refactoring means changing application code so it operates more effectively in a modern cloud environment. This can include adjusting how components communicate, reducing tight coupling, or modernizing specific parts of an application to improve deployment, scaling, or maintainability.
Refactoring is one option within a broader application modernization strategy. It is used selectively when code changes provide clear operational or architectural benefit, rather than as a default step in every modernization effort.
Cloud modernization is the work of improving applications and infrastructure, so they align with the capabilities of cloud platforms. Modernization is the process of updating architecture, deployment, and operations to support change, growth, and automation.
A strong cloud modernization strategy connects technology changes to business value. It allows businesses to adapt systems to real usage patterns and changing demand.
A common example is when an application is moved from a legacy server to AWS and selected components are later refactored to improve how the system scales, deploys, or integrates with other services. For example, user interfaces, APIs, or background jobs may be adjusted independently instead of remaining tightly coupled.
This type of app modernization helps teams leverage cloud services effectively and supports safer, incremental improvements after migration.
Cloud migration is about relocating workloads from one place to another. Migration involves moving applications, data, or infrastructure from a data center or on-premises infrastructure into a cloud environment, typically without changing how those systems work.
Modernization is different. Modernization efforts focus on improving how systems are built, deployed, and operated after they are moved to the cloud. This includes changes to architecture, deployment models, and how teams manage software over time. Migration involves moving, but modernization involves improving.
Many organizations begin with migration but later realize they need modernization to get real value from cloud services.
Yes. NOVA uses a phased modernization approach that allows systems to stay live while changes are introduced over time. This is especially important for businesses running revenue-critical platforms.
Instead of replacing everything at once, NOVA plans coordinated modernization work where components are updated in controlled steps. Traffic is shifted gradually, dependencies are mapped early, and rollback paths are defined before changes go live. This approach supports successful cloud modernization without long outages.
This method is common in modernization projects that involve production workloads with strict uptime requirements.
NOVA supports VMware only as a transitional step. We help stabilize VMware environments while customers plan and execute migrations to the cloud. The goal is not to expand VMware usage but to reduce long-term reliance on it.
Many customers operate in a hybrid cloud state during transition, where VMware runs alongside AWS services. NOVA supports this phase while guiding teams toward infrastructure modernization that removes unnecessary dependencies and improves operational control.
NOVA selects AWS services based on workload needs. Common services include AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch, along with other cloud systems depending on performance, security, and scaling requirements.
These services support public cloud computing models that reduce manual infrastructure management and improve reliability. NOVA designs cloud architecture so customers can take full advantage of the features instead of recreating legacy patterns in a new cloud environment.
Monitoring is built into the modernization process, not added later. NOVA implements observability using AWS CloudWatch and Datadog to track application health, logs, and performance across cloud and infrastructure layers.
This setup supports cloud security, faster issue detection, and operational visibility across modernized applications. Monitoring also helps control infrastructure costs and supports teams running systems as part of managed services.
