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AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change

Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2026-06-25 · Documentation low

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/discovery-cast-imaging.md

Summary

Restructured product capabilities table for conciseness and updated product overview description.

Security assessment

The changes involve formatting improvements and content consolidation without introducing new security-related information. The 'structural flaws, security' mention in resource discovery existed previously and wasn't modified. No vulnerabilities, security updates, or new security features were documented.

Diff

diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/discovery-cast-imaging.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/discovery-cast-imaging.md
index 22b3afe4b..b3c94b7bc 100644
--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/discovery-cast-imaging.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/discovery-cast-imaging.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-Product overviewDiscovery capabilities
+Product overviewDiscovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities
@@ -13 +13 @@ Product overviewDiscovery capabilities
-###### Notice
+###### Note
@@ -21,16 +21,4 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Product website**
-    
-| [CAST Imaging](https://www.castsoftware.com/imaging/)  
-  
-**Product certifications**
-    [AWS Competency Program](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/offerings/) competencies and other certifications
-| AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation  
-  
-**AWS Marketplace**
-    Link to subscribe or download
-| [CAST Imaging on AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-nkeptky3gpjk2)  
-  
-**Tool deployment model**
-    Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed
-| 
+**Product website** | [CAST Imaging](https://www.castsoftware.com/imaging/)  
+**Product certifications**[ AWS Competency Program](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/offerings/) competencies and other certifications | AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation  
+**AWS Marketplace** Link to subscribe or download | [CAST Imaging on AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-nkeptky3gpjk2)  
+**Tool deployment model** Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed | 
@@ -42,4 +30 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Compliance**
-    
-| 
+**Compliance** | 
@@ -51,4 +36 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Service model**
-    
-| 
+**Service model** | 
@@ -61,4 +43 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Pricing model**
-    
-| Subscription  
+**Pricing model** | Subscription  
@@ -70,3 +49 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Discovery method**
-     The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods:
+**Discovery method** The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods:
@@ -80,23 +56,6 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Resources discoverable**
-    The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Operating systems discoverable**
-    
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Other resources discoverable**
-    
-| CAST Imaging scans source code, configuration files, database scripts and other artifacts constituting a system of applications and databases to discover its architecture with its components, dependencies, end-to-end transaction flows and datagraphs, structural flaws, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and maintainability. CAST Imaging also makes recommendations based on various modernization pathways.  
-  
-**Discovery of resource profiles**
-    The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Resource utilization data collection**
-    The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Application dependency level**
-     The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data:
+**Resources discoverable** The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes | Not available  
+**Operating systems discoverable** | Not available  
+**Other resources discoverable** | CAST Imaging scans source code, configuration files, database scripts and other artifacts constituting a system of applications and databases to discover its architecture with its components, dependencies, end-to-end transaction flows and datagraphs, structural flaws, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and maintainability. CAST Imaging also makes recommendations based on various modernization pathways.  
+**Discovery of resource profiles** The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth | Not available  
+**Resource utilization data collection** The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month | Not available  
+**Application dependency level** The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data:
@@ -110,3 +68 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Visualization level**
-     The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications:
+**Visualization level** The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications:
@@ -126,8 +81,2 @@ Category | Product capabilities
-  
-**Database details discovery, source database system**
-    
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Database details discovery, database type**
-    
-| 
+**Database details discovery, source database system** | Not available  
+**Database details discovery, database type** | 
@@ -139,43 +88,11 @@ CAST Imaging covers 12+ database types. See [Coverage overview](https://doc.cast
-  
-**Storage details discovery**
-    The ability to discover storage details, such as systems, types, capacity, configuration, utilization, and object metadata
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Storage systems discoverable**
-    The ability to discovery storage systems, such as EMC Isilon, EMC VMAX, Hitachi Vantara, HPE 3PAR, and Pure Storage
-|  Not available  
-  
-**File system details discovery**
-    
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Software details discovery, programming languages**
-    
-| CAST Imaging covers 50+ programming languages. See [Coverage overview](https://doc.castsoftware.com/technologies/coverage-overview/).  
-  
-**Software details discovery, frameworks or libraries**
-    
-| CAST Imaging covers hundreds of frameworks. See [Coverage overview](https://doc.castsoftware.com/technologies/coverage-overview/).  
-  
-**Software details discovery, ISV products**
-    The ability to discover independent software vendor (ISV) products, such as Splunk Enterprise or F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Container details discovery**
-    
-|  Not available  
-  
-**License discovery**
-    
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Data sovereignty support**
-    The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region
-|  Available  
-  
-**Data export ability**
-    The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON
-|  Available  
-  
-**Code analysis**
-     The ability to support static and dynamic code analysis, optionally identifying:
+**Storage details discovery** The ability to discover storage details, such as systems, types, capacity, configuration, utilization, and object metadata | Not available  
+**Storage systems discoverable** The ability to discovery storage systems, such as EMC Isilon, EMC VMAX, Hitachi Vantara, HPE 3PAR, and Pure Storage | Not available  
+**File system details discovery** | Not available  
+**Software details discovery, programming languages** | CAST Imaging covers 50+ programming languages. See [Coverage overview](https://doc.castsoftware.com/technologies/coverage-overview/).  
+**Software details discovery, frameworks or libraries** | CAST Imaging covers hundreds of frameworks. See [Coverage overview](https://doc.castsoftware.com/technologies/coverage-overview/).  
+**Software details discovery, ISV products** The ability to discover independent software vendor (ISV) products, such as Splunk Enterprise or F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition | Not available  
+**Container details discovery** | Not available  
+**License discovery** | Not available  
+**Data sovereignty support** The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region | Available  
+**Data export ability** The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON | Available  
+**Code analysis** The ability to support static and dynamic code analysis, optionally identifying:
@@ -195,60 +111,15 @@ CAST Imaging automatically discovers the architecture of a system of application
-  
-**Pipeline integration**
-    The ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines for continuous code analysis
-|  Available  
-  
-**Service discovery, mapping**
-    The ability to automate service discovery mapping, which identifies the underlying services, dependencies, and communication patterns (including to external resources, such as SaaS providers)
-|  Available  
-  
-**Service discovery, recommendations**
-    The ability to suggest optimizations for discovered services
-| Partial: to a certain level of detail (for example, only on API calls)  
-  
-**Monolith decomposition, identification**
-    The ability to identify candidate microservices, given classes, objects, functions, and stored procedures
-|  Available  
-  
-**Monolith decomposition, impact analysis**
-    The ability to analyze the impact of the decomposition process
-|  Available  
-  
-**Open source compliance analysis, identification**
-    The ability to identify non-compliant open source solutions within an application
-|  Available  
-  
-**Open source compliance analysis, recommendations**
-    The ability to suggest compliant alternatives or remediation steps
-|  Not available  
-  
-**Framework migration, standard**
-    The ability to support framework migrations, such as Spring to Spring Boot or .NET Framework to .NET 6+
-|  Available; can report on compatibility and necessary changes  
-  
-**Framework migration, legacy**
-    The ability to migrate legacy frameworks, databases, or data formats during framework migrations
-|  Available  
-  
-**Environmental impact analysis**
-    The ability to provide guidance about the sustainability of applications, such as before and after a migration
-|  Available  
-  
-**Cost of change analysis, effort**
-    The ability to estimate the effort required to modernize an application
-|  Available