As organizations continue to modernize their data estates and migrate to Azure, regional availability plays a critical role in meeting data residency, compliance, and performance requirements. We’re excited to announce the expanded regional availability of Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), making it easier for customers to migrate their databases to Azure closer to where their applications and users reside. 

Newly Available Regions for DMS

Azure Database Migration Service is now generally available in the following Azure regions as part of our latest regional expansion: 

• Indonesia Central 

• Mexico Central 

• Poland Central 

• Spain Central 

With this expansion, customers can run their SQL Server migration from more geographies while continuing to benefit from Azure’s enterprise-grade security, reliability, and compliance offerings. 

Refer: Product Availability by Region

What This Means for Customers 

The expanded availability of Azure Database Migration Service enables customers to: 

• Accelerate cloud adoption for SQL Server and other supported database workloads 

• Standardize migrations at scale using a fully managed Azure-native service - DMS 

Whether you’re planning a lift-and-shift, modernization, or phased migration strategy, DMS helps simplify and automate database migrations to Azure with minimal downtime. 

 Supported Migration Scenarios 

In these newly available regions, Azure Database Migration Service supports key migration scenarios, including migrations: 

• To SQL Server on Azure VM (Online and offline) 

• To Azure SQL Managed Instance (Online and offline) 

• To Azure SQL Database (Offline) 

To learn more about supported scenarios and prerequisites, visit the official documentation: 👉 https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/dms 

What’s Next 

We continue to expand Azure Database Migration Service to additional regions as Azure platform dependencies become available, ensuring more customers worldwide can migrate with confidence. Stay tuned for future region announcements as part of our ongoing investment in global migration readiness.