Azure Migrate

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Azure Migrate is a free Microsoft service and hub that discovers on-premises servers, databases and web apps, assesses their readiness, sizing and cost for Azure, maps dependencies and helps carry out the migration.

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Key points about Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate is a free Microsoft service that helps you decide on, plan and run a move to Azure. · Azure Migrate - Simply Explained

Episodes about Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate - Simply Explained

2026-10-26 · Video on YouTube

Learn how Azure Migrate works for cloud migration. Discover server assessment, dependency analysis, agentless setup, and cost optimization. Azure Migrate is free, and it will tell you what your own servers are really costing you. That sounds simple, but the…

Articles about Azure Migrate (2)

Agentless vs. Agent-Based Dependency Analysis in Azure Migrate
2026-10-27 · Mirko Peters
Compare agentless vs agent-based dependency analysis in Azure Migrate. Learn how to map server relationships and prevent cloud migration outages.
Assessing Legacy Systems: The First Step to a Seamless Azure Migration
2026-08-28 · Mirko Peters
Welcome back to the blog! When your organization reaches the point where digital transformation is no longer optional, the conversation almost always turns to the c…

Frequently asked questions

What is Azure Migrate?

Azure Migrate is a free Microsoft service that discovers your workloads, checks whether they are ready for the cloud, estimates costs and helps run the move to Azure. · From the episode: Azure Migrate - Simply Explained

Is Azure Migrate free?

Yes. Azure Migrate is a free service from Microsoft that helps you decide on, plan and run a move to Azure, and the free discovery and assessment steps are the part you should not skip. · From the episode: Azure Migrate - Simply Explained

What does an Azure Migrate assessment cover?

An assessment covers readiness, sizing and cost: whether a workload is ready for the cloud, how it should be sized there and what it will cost. Dependency analysis, which maps what is connected to what, is a separate step. · From the episode: Azure Migrate - Simply Explained

Glossary

Latest update

2026-11-02 In preview Azure Updates

Public Preview: On-prem NAS share discovery and assessment are now available using Azure Migrate

Azure

Migrate now supports discovery and assessment for network-attached storage,

allowing customers and partners to plan migrations of Dell PowerScale (OneFS)

and NetApp ONTAP storage to Azure. The Azure Migrate appliance connects

directly to your NAS clusters using read-only credentials, inventories every

SMB, NFS, and S3 share, and evaluates each share against Azure Files, Azure

Blob Storage, and Azure NetApp Files.

Key benefits include:

Discover Dell PowerScale/Isilon and NetApp ONTAP/FAS clusters

and the shares they host

Group, tag, and filter NAS shares alongside your existing

server, application, and database inventory

Assess each…

Preview: October 2026

Summaries of official Microsoft release information, checked daily.

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