Azure Migrate
Simplify and accelerate cloud transformation with the new Azure Copilot migration agent built on the Azure Migrate platform.
OVERVIEW
Streamline your path to the cloud
Get insights, plan and modernize with confidence
- Automatically discover infrastructure, applications, and data. Understand dependencies and readiness.
- Use assessments and 6R options to align workloads with the right treatment (rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, replace, and retire).
- Orchestrate across agents and tools with less manual intervention, full transparency, and control.
- Transform cloud operations from reactive management to continuous value creation with Azure Copilot agents, intelligently optimizing cost, performance, and reliability while guiding teams to operate in Azure with confidence.
FEATURES
Experience the end-to-end agentic journey to the cloud
Subscribe
Begin with an Azure account
Start
Launch your agentic journey
Get insights
Generate readiness and cost insights–then ask the agent about what’s next
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 with right-sizing insights and use AI assistance to compare options and build a decision-ready story for stakeholders.
Azure Accelerate
Move faster by pairing agentic experience with trusted guidance across migration, modernization, and beyond.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are using Azure Migrate
Resources
Azure Migrate resources and documentation
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure Copilot delivers a full‑lifecycle, agentic cloud migration and modernization experience by bringing together specialized agents for migration, deployment, observability, optimization, resiliency and troubleshooting while seamlessly invoking GitHub Copilot for deep application modernization to connect infrastructure transformation with developer‑led innovation.
- The Azure Copilot migration agent brings Azure Migrate to life through an intuitive, AI‑guided experience that orchestrates the end‑to‑end migration journey, guiding customers step by step, securely coordinating with first and third‑party tools for tailored treatments and maintaining unified visibility and tracking from discovery through execution.
- 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.
- 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.
Next steps
Choose the Azure account that’s right for you
Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.
Azure solutions
Azure cloud solutions
Solve your business problems with proven combinations of Azure cloud services, as well as sample architectures and documentation.
Agentic documentation
Learn about the agentic experience
Bring Azure Migrate to life with the Azure Copilot migration agent, an AI-guided experience that orchestrates the end-to-end migration journey.
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