Google launches AI-powered tools in Cloud Modernize portfolio

Google Cloud wants your company’s oldest software. On October 5, 2026, it launched a new Modernize portfolio built to drag mainframes, VMware setups, and other legacy systems into cloud-native territory. The pitch is that AI does much of the grunt work. That includes assessment, code analysis, and migration, which have historically been the slow, expensive, nobody-wants-this-project parts of enterprise IT. What Google actually shipped The announcement came via the Google Cloud Blog, written by Souvik Choudhury and Tom Nikl. It folds existing migration tools together with upgraded AI features under one umbrella. First is Migration Center, now equipped with a Gemini-powered tool called the Agentic Quick Estimator. Its job is sizing up existing infrastructure so companies know what they’re dealing with before they start moving anything. Second is the Modernization Hub. It performs source code analysis and dependency mapping, which means it reads old applications and charts which pieces rely on which. Third is EKS-to-GKE Agentic Migration, now available in public preview. EKS is Amazon Web Services’ managed Kubernetes offering, and GKE is Google Kubernetes Engine. Kubernetes is the sof...