This pattern shows you how to migrate and replicate Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files from a mainframe to a target environment in the AWS Cloud by using Connect from Precisely. The target environments covered in this pattern include Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Connect uses change data capture (CDC) to continuously monitor updates to your source VSAM files and then transfer these updates to one or more of your AWS target environments. You can use this pattern to meet your application modernization or data analytics goals. For example, you can use Connect to migrate your VSAM application files to the AWS Cloud with low latency, or migrate your VSAM data to an AWS data warehouse or data lake for analytics that can tolerate synchronization latencies that are higher than required for application modernization.