Azure offers you the ability to run your SQL Server workloads with optimized costs, greater flexibility, scalability, and availability along with a strong security and compliance posture all the while simplifying management and monitoring.
That being said, moving databases to cloud can be a very significant decision for any business. Comparing different migration strategies, associated costs and estimating cashflow changes is crucial to making an informed decision. This can be daunting if you have a significant estate size requiring a lot of person-hours to evaluate, especially in the current economic situation.
Azure Migrate Business Case, a new feature in Azure Migrate that is now in public preview (see announcement here), can help you plan this journey with confidence.
Automate analysis of the SQL Server deployments running in your VMware environments (Hyper-V and physical servers will be added soon) to generate a business case including:
Based on your business priorities, you can choose between the following migration strategies:
The business case report presents both an overview and detailed estimate reports for On-Premises Vs Azure costs, Azure IaaS and Azure PaaS costs. You can easily validate different what-if scenarios by editing the assumptions and recalculating the business case or compare different scenarios by creating multiple business cases with different assumptions.
The Azure Migrate Business Case feature is in public preview. Head on over to the Azure Portal to try it out.
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