Azure Migrate
Simplify and accelerate your cloud transformation with AI assistance.
OVERVIEW
Streamline your path to the cloud
- Start by discovering and assessing your on-premises IT estate. Get insight to help you decide on a path to Azure for each resource and create a plan to move in phases, enabling faster innovation and a higher return on investment (ROI). Easily and securely track and manage your cloud transformations from a central dashboard.
- Easily identify and gather details on your infrastructure, databases, and applications. Map dependences and estimate costs and savings for various scenarios by generating a business proposal to advocate moving to Azure.
- Assess the readiness of your on-premises resources to move to Azure and right-size for optimal savings. Create an application-aware phased plan to help ensure collocation of all dependent application resources in Azure for best performance.
- Move to Azure in waves, monitoring progress through a unified approach across different types of workloads (including infrastructure as a service [IaaS] and platform as a service [PaaS] workloads), tools, and personas. Manage costs and innovation by testing resources in Azure prior to cutting-over.
FEATURES
Optimize your cloud journey with Azure Migrate
Get started
Begin by creating an Azure account.
Deploy and connect
Download and deploy the appropriate appliance and connect it with your management center and Azure account.
Discover and assess
Discover your IT estate to assess with insights before moving to Azure.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Optimize your Azure cost
Stay on budget and take advantage of Azure hybrid benefits, reserved instances, and saving plan incentives. AI-assisted Azure Migrate is free* with your Azure subscription and provides cost optimization features.
*Free with limits: AI assistance is offered to early access customers at no additional cost. Capacity constraints may affect AI service performance.
*Free with limits: AI assistance is offered to early access customers at no additional cost. Capacity constraints may affect AI service performance.
Azure Accelerate
One unified offering for all customers across IaaS, PaaS, and AI.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are using Azure Migrate
Resources
Azure Migrate resources and documentation
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Yes. Azure Migrate Application Awareness allows for the grouping of tagged resources that are dependent. This capability facilitates collocation of resources for optimal cost and performance.
- Azure Migrate has an intuitive chat-based user interface to automate and guide the customer journey. The agentic approach to moving to Azure is workload, persona, and treatment (6R) independent.
- Learn about the Azure SLA.
- Azure Migrate is a non-regional service, meaning there’s no dependency on a specific Azure region. Please go to the product availability per region page and use the region search tool for more information.
- Yes. Azure Migrate can be used to modernize your on-premises workloads in Azure after migration and to create a new modernized application in Azure. Learn more about application and database modernization.
- Azure Migrate features tools and services to support the entire cloud transformation of your on-premises IT estate starting with discovery and assessment followed by the move to Azure. Get more details to plan your migration to Azure, including the cloud migration checklist.
- Yes, Azure Migrate provides a way to move your legacy apps portfolio to the cloud. Learn more with this webinar: Migrate Your Legacy .NET Apps to the Cloud. If your organization uses a mainframe, find out about migrating your mainframe apps to the cloud.
- Classic Azure Migrate is the original version of Azure Migrate, which only supports VMware virtual machine assessments. Azure Migrate can now be used to assess your situation prior to migrating to and modernizing in Azure. Learn how to upgrade to the most recent version of Azure Migrate.
- Yes, Azure Migrate helps you assess VDI—select Lakeside, a VDI assessment tool, when you create a new project.
- For information about licensing for a specific partner tool, visit the partner's website or go to Azure Migrate pricing.
- Yes, Azure Migrate features support for physical server assessment and migration.
- See a list of supported databases.
- To begin your database migration, first use an Azure Migrate database assessment tool to discover and assess on-premises databases. To migrate your databases, go to the Azure Database Migration Service, select the subscription used in your Azure Migrate database assessment, and migrate groups and instances from your assessment.
- Azure Migrate supports discovery and assessment of on-premises resources and migration to and modernization in Azure. Azure Site Recovery is a disaster recovery solution.
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