Transferring from on-premises to Azure

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A research estimates that the global cloud computing market will be worth $623.3 billion by 2023. In 2019, 10.9% of Microsoft's total revenue came from the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.

Transferring from on-premises to Azure is a significant process that typically involves migrating various components of your IT infrastructure—such as servers, databases, applications, and data—into Microsoft Azure's cloud environment. Here's a high-level overview of the steps involved:

1. Planning and Assessment

• Assess Current Environment: Analyze your existing on-premises infrastructure, applications, and workloads to understand their requirements, dependencies, and performance metrics.
• Define Objectives: Determine the goals of your migration, such as cost savings, scalability, improved disaster recovery, or enhanced security.
• Choose a Migration Strategy:
  • Rehost (Lift and Shift): Moving applications without significant changes.
  • Refactor: Modifying applications to take advantage of cloud features.
  • Rearchitect: Rebuilding applications from scratch using cloud-native services.
  • Rebuild: Completely redesigning an application using cloud services.
  • Replace: Replacing on-premises applications with SaaS solutions.

2. Choosing the Right Tools

• Azure Migrate: A central hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating workloads to Azure.
• Azure Site Recovery (ASR): For disaster recovery and migration of virtual machines.
• Database Migration Service (DMS): For migrating databases to Azure.
• Azure Data Box: For large data migrations using physical devices.

3. Migration Process

• Discovery and Assessment:
  • Use Azure Migrate to discover on-premises servers and workloads.
  • Assess readiness for migration using the assessment tools.
• Migration Strategy Implementation:
  • Rehosting: Use ASR to replicate and failover VMs to Azure.
  • Refactoring/Rearchitecting: Modify applications and databases to use Azure PaaS services.
  • Rebuilding/Replacing: Develop new applications or replace existing ones with Azure-native solutions or SaaS.
• Data Migration:
  • Use Azure DMS for databases.
  • Use Azure Data Box or other methods for large-scale data transfers.
• Testing: Perform thorough testing of applications, databases, and network configurations in the Azure environment.
• Cutover: Once testing is successful, cut over from the on-premises environment to Azure.

4. Post-Migration

• Optimization: Review and optimize resource usage, performance, and costs in Azure.
• Monitoring and Management: Use Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and other tools to manage and secure your Azure environment.
• Training and Documentation: Ensure your team is trained on Azure services and update your documentation.

5. Security and Compliance

• Ensure Compliance: Validate that your Azure deployment meets all regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Security Best Practices: Implement Azure's security features such as role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and network security groups.

6. Backup and Disaster Recovery

• Azure Backup: Set up backup solutions for data protection.
• Azure Site Recovery: Configure disaster recovery solutions for critical applications.

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