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Planning resources
Plan for your move
Discover and assess your apps, databases, and infrastructure
Get insights into your dependencies using automated cloud migration
tools. Inventory your infrastructure and assess your on-premises
environments. Get right-sizing guidance, workload-level cost estimates,
and performance metrics.
Make a business case for migration and modernization
Evaluate the potential cost savings of migrating to Azure by calculating
and comparing your total cost of ownership (TCO) for Azure with that of
a comparable on-premises deployment.
Build a holistic plan
Account for workload priorities, timelines, milestones, resources,
and funding. Then break up your overall plan into migration and
modernization projects, each with a group of related workloads. Get
buy-in from leadership and your new migration center of excellence.
Planning for cloud migration
and modernization continued
Cloud migration and modernization planning tools
Azure migration business case video
Cloud economics
Azure TCO calculator
Migrate to the Cloud with Azure Migrate e-book
App Migration Toolkit
Getting-ready tools
Self-guided skill-building courses on Microsoft Learn
Documentation: What is a landing zone?
Documentation: Landing zone implementation options
Innovation is why
we're going with
a cloud-specific
architecture.
Having on-demand
capabilities has
been helpful. Azure
Kubernetes Service,
security, and best-
in-cloud capabilities
to modernize our
business are key to
our success.
Jim Saber
Group Vice President of
Cloud IT and Operations
Albertsons Companies
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