May, 2026 : Grid Dynamics Brings AI Modernization Playbook to Azure

📅 May 24, 2026 - Grid Dynamics is taking its AI-heavy legacy modernization playbook to Microsoft Azure, aiming at large enterprises still running high-volume systems on aging databases and costly software licenses. The company says the new service combines Azure migration support with its GAIN platform, as AI work becomes a larger slice of its revenue mix in 2026 for the company.

The target is not the easy part of cloud migration. It is the ugly part: transaction-heavy legacy estates, old data warehouses, brittle integration layers, and application portfolios where nobody wants to be the executive who broke billing, payments, manufacturing planning, or customer operations.

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