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We are continuously enhancing our offerings to help you in your digital transformation journey to the cloud. You can read more about these offerings in the blog, \u201cThree reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers continue to choose Azure<\/a>.\u201d In this blog, we will go over some of the new features added to Microsoft Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery that will help you in your lift and shift migration journey to Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Migrate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Azure Migrate allows you to discover your on-premises environment and plan your migration to Azure. Based on popular demand, we have now enabled Azure Migrate in three new geographies, Asia, Europe, and Azure Government. Support for other Azure geographies will be enabled in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the list of regions within the Azure geographies where the discovery and assessment metadata is stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geography<\/strong><\/td>Region for metadata storage<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
United States<\/td>West Central US, East US<\/td><\/tr>
Europe<\/td>North Europe, West Europe<\/td><\/tr>
Asia<\/td>East Asia, Southeast Asia<\/td><\/tr>
Azure Government<\/td>U.S. Gov Virginia<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When you create a migration project in the Azure portal, the region for metadata storage is randomly selected. For example, if you create a project in the United States, we will automatically select the region as West Central US or East US. If you are specific about storing the metadata in a certain region in the geography, you can use our REST APIs<\/a> to create the migration project and can specify the region accordingly in the API request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note, the geography selection does not restrict you from planning your migration for other Azure target regions. Azure Migrate allows you to specify more than 30 Azure target regions for migration planning. You can learn more by visiting our documentation, \u201cCustomize an assessment<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure Site Recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) helps you migrate your on-premises virtual machines (VMs) to IaaS VMs in Azure, this is the lift and shift migration. We are listening to your feedback and have recently made enhancements in ASR to make your migration journey even more smooth. Below is the list of enhancements recently done in ASR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n