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Explaining to Customers the move to Azure if they have already spent Capex on a new data center
Command0r thats all great. thank you both of you.
One thing I said was that they have to do a lot of work when moving to new On Prem servers (This is a move from 2012 to 2019)
I said that once you have migrated to Azure and done the work there, servers are simply updated and you don't have to have the pain of migrating to new SQL Servers any more.
Am I correct in that assumption?
That is correct. At the same time, please keep in mind two different deployment models related to SQL Server. 1st, you can use Managed SQL Server instance and support of the underlying infrastructure is on Microsoft (this does not include database maintenance, even with all that automation in place, this will be on you anyway). 2nd, you can deploy to SQL Server VMs (PaaS offering). In this case, architecting resiliency and scalability as well as updating those VMs will be entirely on you.
Command0r Thank you so much for your advice on this