Azure cloud migration and modernization center
Accelerate AI innovation by securely migrating and modernizing your IT estate.
Overview
Transform your entire estate with agility and security
- Modernize your apps to quickly adapt to market changes and enhance decision-making efficiency.
- Unify your data to drive AI innovation and make smarter decisions across your organization.
- Unify security across the full cloud app lifecycle—from code to cloud—while reducing risk and simplifying compliance.
- Reduce expenses and boost efficiency with cost-effective solutions and strategic partnerships.
- Upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET Core—or to Core and upgrade Java versions and frameworks.
- Move SQL Server workloads to Azure with minimal code changes, automated assessments, and right-sizing recommendations to IaaS or PaaS.
- Modernize Oracle and Postgres to Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server using agentic tools in VS Code
- Save licensing costs by rapidly shifting to Azure native VMs with an agent to perform IaaS/PaaS recommendations and deploy automated Landing Zones.
- Improve scalability and operational efficiency by modernizing and unifying your Linux estate on Azure, spanning compute, containers, data, and managed services.
- Proactively monitor apps, automate app remediation, investigate real-time threat responses, and upgrade OS versions to avoid end of support costs.
Products
Migrate and modernize with Azure
Explore solutions to modernize and optimize your IT estate.
Windows Server virtual machines
Scale and reduce costs with secure, modern Windows workloads on Azure.
Linux virtual machines
Run modern Linux workloads with built-in security on Azure.
Azure VMware Solution
Migrate VMware workloads with minimal changes, keeping continuity and familiarity for your team.
Azure Arc
Manage across multicloud environments to boost productivity and enable consistent security and governance.
RISE with SAP
Improve performance and availability with the preferred cloud platform for SAP.
Azure SQL
Optimize performance and cut costs with a fully managed, mission-critical database solution.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Cut costs and boost performance with a fully managed PostgreSQL database.
Oracle Database@Azure
Migrate Oracle workloads fast with minimal code changes and get enterprise-grade performance and support.
Azure Kubernetes Services
Lower operational overhead with scalable, cloud-native app development.
Azure App Service
Speed up app deployment and boost developer productivity with integrated DevOps and CI/CD tools.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Lower breach risk with unified security across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Azure Migrate
Simplify Azure migration and modernization with a unified platform.
GitHub Copilot
Upgrade and modernize your apps in days, not months, with AI agents in GitHub Copilot.
Azure Copilot
The agentic cloud interface that gives IT and platform teams confidence in every cloud operation.
Announcement
Accelerate and simplify migration and modernization with agentic AI
Learn how agentic AI helps teams move faster, make smarter decisions, and collaborate seamlessly on migrating and modernizing their organization’s entire IT estate.
What the latest research is saying
- See how organizations optimize costs and improve IT infrastructure in The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Arc with Cloud-Based Management Services, a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting.
- Learn how organizations optimize IT infrastructure and reduce costs in The Business Value of Ubuntu on Microsoft Azure from IDC.
- Find out how organizations optimize IT infrastructure and improve performance in Migrating Windows Server Workloads to Azure.
- Learn how organizations improve database management and reduce costs in Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Customer stories
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Resources
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Next steps
Get started with a free account
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Offerings
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Fuel your transformation with expert help and investments from Azure.
Guidance
Discover Azure Essentials for success
Explore tools and methodologies to improve your IT strategy and support innovation.
Best practices
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