Azure Copilot Migration Agent

Migration and modernization are complex, involving multiple decisions that determine cost, risk, and long‑term success. The timelines stretch and momentum is lost due to fragmented tools and manual planning. For most organizations, this is a continuous motion driven by shifting demands, security pressures, and the need to innovate faster without disrupting what already works.

With the release of Azure Copilot Migration Agent, this process is now guided and accelerated with insight‑driven decisions. The migration agent collaborates with GitHub Copilot to support faster and at-scale modernization.

Migration Agent delivers three core capabilities that simplify and accelerate migration planning.

Confidence before you move: Quick Insights without exposure

A successful transformation starts with clarity. Discovering a large enterprise environment is often challenging in the early stages of migration when traditional discovery tools require network changes or direct connectivity to Azure. These prerequisites can slow down projects before they begin.

The Migration Agent facilitates agentless discovery of VMware environment, delivering comprehensive insights without the need for intrusive appliances or exposure of sensitive networks. Azure Migrate Collector (also in public preview) supports inventory collection without requiring direct connectivity to Azure. Operating locally, the collector identifies servers, workloads, and performance metrics from the environment, and packages this data for import in Azure Migrate.

Conversational analysis and categorization of discovered infrastructure, databases, and web applications make it much easier to understand the overall estate and see how these elements function as business systems.

Within hours, business leaders receive 6R recommendations based on real environmental data, enabling confident decisions. Right-sizing ensures Azure solutions match performance and budget needs, while modernization recommendation identifies opportunities for cloud-native optimization.

Execution at scale: Speed with governance built in

Clear insights drive successful execution. Building a secure, compliant Azure foundation is often one of the biggest migration blockers. The Migration Agent accelerates setting up the foundation by automating platform landing zone creation, aligned with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework and other best practices. It configures networking, identity, policies, and resources. Using the Migration Agent, the generated templates can be understood for otherwise overwhelming concepts and edited for custom requirements.

Structured wave plans allow prioritized sequencing of workloads and applications, ensuring predictable execution with progress tracking and rollback. The agent coordinates handoffs between infrastructure, database, application, and security teams, keeping humans involved throughout the process.

Modernization without handoffs: Secure flow to developers

Through the Migration Agent, Azure Migrate securely invokes relevant tools at the right juncture, including GitHub Copilot for application modernization. Developers can plan upgrades conversationally, generate code and automate routine modernization tasks across .NET, Java and cloud-native workloads without breaking the flow between assessment and execution.

Integrations with tools like CAST Highlight provide deeper analytics to target the right refactors and reduce modernization risk. Instead of a one-time migration event, modernization becomes a continuous, developer-centered loop; compressing timelines while improving application quality.

Get started today

Azure Copilot migration agent and the Azure Migrate Collector are now publicly available. Start using it to simplify and guide your migration process.

Learn more about Azure Migrate and for expert migration help, please try Azure Accelerate.