Cloud migration resources
Find cloud migration videos, Microsoft webinars, scenario guides, and learning resources to help you simplify and accelerate your cloud migration journey.
Popular cloud migration tools and resources
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Explore a proven methodology and guidance to help cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers succeed in their cloud goals.
Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool
Get a customized assessment of your organization’s business, technical, and training readiness—and specific recommendations to resolve gaps.
Cloud migration checklist
Take a high-level walkthrough of the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, as well as the Azure tools and resources to use at each step of the way.
Get the latest cloud best practices and guidance on the Azure blog
Popular migration videos
Popular how-to videos
How to migrate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop
On-demand Microsoft webinars
Resources for workloads, frameworks, and cloud migration best practices
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Resources for cloud migration journey stages
Learn more about the six stages of cloud migrationDefine strategy
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Tools
- Estimate your cost savings with the Azure total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator
- Assess your organizational and technical cloud readiness with SMART, the Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool
- Start planning with the cloud migration checklist
- Assess your environment using Azure Migrate
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- Azure Database Migration Guide for common database management systems
- Azure Migrate implementation tools
- Deploy web apps and APIs with Azure App Service
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See how customers are thriving by moving to Azure
Sameer Agarwal: Manager-Enterprise Data Analytics | H&R Block"We have now been through one entire tax season with SQL Server 2017 for our operational data store and data warehouse, and migration worked with minimal issues."
Sarah Haywood, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology | Carlsberg Group"We're seeing a huge benefit in terms of scalability. We build out resources in the cloud as we need them, in a way that would have been impossible in a physical datacenter."
Murray Kristell, Vice President of Descartes MacroPoint Development | Descartes"We had less than two hours of downtime for our entire transfer and migration. When it was time to go live, all we did was change the connection strings and start everything back up—as simple as that."
Kennametal lowered its IT maintenance costs and boosted performance by moving its SAP enterprise resource planning system to Azure. After careful planning, the migration was implemented in a single weekend with minimal business impact.
