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Migrate to Azure Availability Zones
Azure Migrate Server Migration now offers additional options to help you meet the resiliency requirements for business critical workloads that you are migrating to Azure by taking advantage of platform native capabilities like Availability Zones.
August 2020
Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.
June 2020
Azure Migrate now supports multiple credentials for discovery of physical servers
Support for adding multiple credentials for discovery and assessment of physical servers and a scale of 1000 physical servers per Azure Migrate appliance
Azure Migrate—Assessment of imported servers is now generally available
Assessment of imported servers in Azure Migrate is now generally available.
April 2020
Azure Migrate is now available in Azure Government
All Azure Migrate features, including agentless discovery and assessment, application inventory, and migration, are now available in Azure Government.
December 2019
Application discovery with Server Assessment in Azure Migrate is now in preview
Discover installed applications, roles, and features with server assessment in Azure Migrate.
November 2019
Azure Migrate—Assessment of imported servers is now supported in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Migrate now supports the assessment of server inventories imported using a CSV file.
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It’s a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.
Web apps migration experience now available in Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate now provides a dedicated experience for migrating .NET web applications to Azure App Service
August 2019
Azure Migrate is now available in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan
Azure Migrate now supports the creation of migration projects in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan geographies.
July 2019
Announcing Azure Migration Program
Azure Migration Program, which allows customers and partners to apply to work directly with Microsoft to plan and implement Azure migration projects, is now available. Using proven Microsoft cloud adoption methodologies, tools, resources, and best practices, you’ll simplify and accelerate your Azure cloud migration with an approach that’s tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
Azure Migrate is now a central hub to start, execute and track your migration journey
Azure Migrate is now enhanced and can help you discover, assess, and migrate applications, infrastructure, and data from your on-premises environments to Azure. You can centrally track progress of your migration journey across multiple Microsoft and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) tools in Azure Migrate.
May 2019
Azure NetApp Files is now generally available
Azure NetApp Files, an Azure first-party service, is a powerful file-storage service to run your most demanding file workloads in Azure, without the need for any code modification.
Azure VMware Solutions is now generally available
Run your VMware workloads natively on Azure with Azure VMware Solutions. This new category of Azure services, now available to the public, allows you to deploy your VMware-based applications on a dedicated and bare metal infrastructure in Azure.
January 2019
Azure Migrate is now available in Asia and Europe
Azure Migrate now supports the creation of migration projects in Asia and Europe geographies.
Azure Migrate is now available in Azure Government
Azure Migrate now supports the creation of migration projects in the Azure Government region.
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