Azure Migrate for Government

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We are excited to announce that Azure Migrate, Microsoft’s service for datacenter migration, is now available in Azure Government.

 

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Accessing Azure Migrate for Government

As always, Azure Migrate is included in your Azure subscription without any additional licensing costs. To get started with Azure Government, request an Azure Government trial. If you already have an Azure Government subscription, go ahead and start using Azure Migrate to discover, assess and migrate your mission critical workloads to Azure.

 

Azure Migrate provides a central hub of Microsoft and ISV migration tools. The hub helps identify the right tools for your migration scenario and features end-to-end progress tracking to help with largescale datacenter migrations and cloud transformation projects.

 

Azure Migrate provides comprehensive coverage for a variety of migration scenarios, including:

  • Windows and Linux servers: Largescale discovery, assessment, and migration for VMware, Hyper-V, and bare metal servers. Customers can perform agentless discovery, application inventory mapping, dependency mapping, and cost analysis. Customers can also migrate VMware VMs (now generally available) to Azure with zero data loss and minimal downtime using an agentless migration, in addition to the agent-based migration capability
  • SQL and other databases: Assessment and migration for a variety of on-premises databases to Azure SQL database and SQL Managed Instance
  • Web-apps: Assessment and migration of .NET and PHP web-apps to Azure App Service
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) migration: Migration of virtual desktop infrastructure to Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure
  • Data migration: Migration of block data to Azure using Data Box

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Geographic and Regional availability

Azure Migrate is currently available in Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States for public cloud. Now, Azure Migrate capabilities will be extended to US Gov Arizona, US Gov Virginia and US Gov Texas. Note that the individual SKUs supported in the assessment and migration tools will depend on availability in these regions. Comparison of Gov SKUs with respect to public cloud SKUs can be found here.

 

 

See the latest and greatest Azure Migrate in action in the videos below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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