Cloud migration resources
Find cloud migration videos, Microsoft webinars, scenario guides, and migration learning resources to help you simplify and accelerate your cloud migration journey.
Popular cloud migration tools and resources
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Explore a proven methodology and guidance to help cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers succeed in their cloud migration process.
Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool
Get a customized assessment of your organization’s business, technical, and training readiness—and specific recommendations to resolve gaps.
Cloud migration checklist
Take a high-level walkthrough of the steps to plan, assess, and begin your Azure cloud migration, as well as the Azure tools and migration resources to use at each step of the way.
Popular migration videos
Popular how-to videos
Cloud Migration or Build Apps with an Architectural Foundation | Azure Landing Zones
How to migrate VMware VMs to Azure IaaS
How to migrate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop
Database migration to Azure
How to migrate web apps to Azure App Service
How to extend your VMware environment to Azure VMware Solution
Popular sessions from Microsoft Ignite
The economic and financial considerations for Azure migration
Migrate your datacenter with Azure tools
Be prepared for what’s next - Kick start your cloud migration
Migrate and modernize .NET applications on Azure
Accelerate cloud migration and innovation with Linux on Azure
Accelerate your cloud journey with Azure VMware Solution
On-demand Microsoft webinars
Resources for workloads, frameworks, and cloud migration best practices
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Resources for cloud migration journey stages
Learn more about the six stages of cloud migrationDefine strategy
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Cloud migration tools
- Estimate your cost savings with the Azure total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator
- Assess your organizational and technical cloud readiness with SMART, the Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool
- Start planning with the cloud migration checklist
- Assess your environment using Azure Migrate
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- Azure Database Migration Guide for common database management systems
- Azure Migrate implementation tools
- Deploy web apps and APIs with Azure App Service
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See how customers are thriving by moving to Azure
Sameer Agarwal: Manager-Enterprise Data Analytics | H&R Block"We have now been through one entire tax season with SQL Server 2017 for our operational data store and data warehouse, and migration worked with minimal issues."
Sarah Haywood, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology | Carlsberg Group"We're seeing a huge benefit in terms of scalability. We build out resources in the cloud as we need them, in a way that would have been impossible in a physical datacenter."
Kennametal lowered its IT maintenance costs and boosted performance by moving its SAP enterprise resource planning system to Azure. After careful planning, the migration was implemented in a single weekend with minimal business impact.
Additiv needed a trusted provider with the highest standards of security and compliance to meet the needs of their financial industry clients. FastTrack for Azure was there to help.
The American Cancer Society is on a mission to free the world from cancer. Due to the global health crisis, this non-profit needed to exit their datacenter and save money. Azure Migration Program was there to help execute this migration at a rapid pace and mitigate risk.
Dan Regalado, Vice President of Global Technology Transformation and Strategic Partnerships"One of the benefits of going to Microsoft is that we can just focus on our business and trust Azure to give us a solid infrastructure to run on."
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January 23, 2019
Be prepared for what’s next: Accelerate cloud migration