Blu Age is pleased to announce support for running functions written in COBOL on AWS Lambda

This solution allows customers with existing mainframe systems to migrate or extend components of their business applications to a serverless architecture without having to rewrite all of the business logic in a new language. Using AWS Lambda to run compute jobs provides significant infrastructure and operational cost savings over legacy deployment models.

The Blu Age Serverless Cobol solution leverages the recently released AWS Lambda Layers feature to provide a set of runtime libraries for running COBOL functions on top of the native Lambda Java 8 runtime. The solution uses Blu Age’s custom compiler to build a Lambda function deployment package from the provided COBOL source code. This package can then be deployed to Lambda in a customer’s AWS account using the provided layer.

This approach significantly reduces the cost required to migrate legacy application code to AWS Lambda allowing customers to take advantage of the features and benefits of the Lambda platform including: