Resources
Find cloud migration best practices, scenario guides, training, and tools to make your project a success. Get the resources you need and connect with Azure experts to stay on track.
Get cloud migration best practices
Explore three focus areas to help prepare your organization, ensure your project is well executed, and provide technology that’s ready for the cloud.
People
Decide on your organization's goals and develop the skills needed to run workloads on Azure.
Planning
Execute on your migration vision by building a business case, deciding on your migration strategies, and tracking success.
Technology
Prepare your cloud infrastructure and manage workloads after migration.
Find guidance on migration scenarios
Walk through the Azure migration experience for a sample company in these detailed scenario guides. Explore a wide range of considerations and migration strategies for managing subscriptions, networking, identity, and app migration.
Explore Azure migration resources for getting started:
Dive deeper into your migration:
- Rehost an app on Azure VMs and Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Rehost an app on Azure VMs
- Rehost an app on Azure VMs and SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group
- Rehost a Linux app to Azure VMs
- Rehost a Linux app to Azure VMs and Azure MySQL
- Refactor an app to an Azure Web App and Azure SQL database
- Refactor a Linux app to multiple regions with Azure App Service, Traffic Manager, and Azure MySQL
- Refactor a Team Foundation Server deployment to Azure DevOps Services
- Rebuild an app in Azure
- Scale migrations to Azure
Train for your cloud migration
We’ve got you covered with training to prepare you for migrating to Azure. Gain confidence through this set of articles and free online video courses.
Pre Migration
Prepare your business environment
Plan your migration strategy
Prepare your technical environment
During Migration
Understanding Azure's capabilities
Watch migration sessions from Microsoft Ignite
Check out the migration highlights from Microsoft Ignite to quickly get up to speed for your own cloud migration.
Explore cloud migration tools
Accelerate and automate your cloud migration with these Azure migration tools.
Assess
Estimate your cost savings when you move your workloads to Azure.
Easily discover, assess, and migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure.
Database workloads
Azure Database Migration Guide
Create a plan for your database migration.
Detect compatibility issues, get performance recommendations, and migrate database schemas.
SQL Server Migration Assistant
Automate database migration to SQL Server from Microsoft Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and SAP ASE.
Web apps
Azure App Service migration assessment
Assess your application's readiness to migrate to App Service.
Migrate
Datacenter migration
Migrate infrastructure, applications, and data to Azure.
Database migration
Azure Database Migration Service
Accelerate your database transition to the cloud.
Optimize
Optimize what you spend on the cloud while maximizing cloud potential.
Enable the quick, repeatable creation of fully governed environments.
Secure and manage
Get unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads.
Gain full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network.
Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware.