Azure Migration Guide

Azure is trusted for its security, reliability, and scalability

Millions of organizations around the world rely on cloud services on Azure—more than 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies trust their business on Azure. You can bring your infrastructure to Azure, no matter what size your business is, with solutions for any starting point. Whether you use Windows Server, SQL Server, Linux, VMware, or SAP, Azure provides flexible migration paths to help you extend your technology and skills to the cloud. This migration guide is based on customer best practices, resources, and tools to help move your on-premises resources to Azure. We’ll share the lessons gathered from migrating millions of applications and server workloads into Azure. You’ll learn how to assess your existing environment to plan and prioritize migration to Azure, then how to break down migration into actionable steps.

Cost-saving migration benefits The Cloud Adoption Framework illustrates some of the many ways organizations can stay on top of optimizing costs: Extended security updates. These allow up to three years of security updates for Windows and SQL Server 2012/R2 workloads, from the end date of support, at no additional cost when hosted on Azure in Azure Virtual Machines. Reserved capacity. You can reduce your costs by up to 33 percent by reserving capacity at a discount. When combined with Azure Hybrid Benefit, you can save up to 80 percent. Dev/test pricing. Save up to 55 percent versus list prices, eligible with an active Visual Studio subscription