Azure Migration Services — Plan, Execute, Optimise
Migrating to Azure without a structured approach leads to budget overruns, extended timelines, and environments that cost more than the infrastructure they replaced. Opsio's Azure migration services provide end-to-end support — from assessment and landing zone design through execution and post-migration optimisation — ensuring your workloads arrive on Azure secure, performant, and cost-effective.
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200+
Workloads Migrated
35%
Avg Cost Savings
0
Downtime Events
99.9%
Post-Migration Uptime
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What is Azure Migration Services?
Azure migration services encompass the assessment, planning, architecture design, execution, and optimisation required to move on-premises or multi-cloud workloads to Microsoft Azure, covering compute, databases, applications, and data estates. Standard scope includes discovery and dependency mapping, business case and TCO analysis, landing zone design aligned to the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, workload migration execution, post-migration optimisation, and ongoing governance. Practitioners rely on Azure Migrate for agentless discovery and right-sizing recommendations, Azure Database Migration Service for structured and unstructured database cutovers, and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform and Bicep to enforce repeatable landing zone deployments. Security controls typically implemented during migration include Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and role-based access control aligned to CIS Benchmarks or NIS2 obligations for European organisations. Migration costs vary widely by workload volume and complexity; Microsoft and analyst guidance generally place professional services engagements for mid-market environments in the range of tens of thousands to several hundred thousand dollars, with cloud spend savings of 20 to 40 percent commonly cited as a post-migration outcome when right-sizing is applied. Leading vendors active in this space include Microsoft's own FastTrack for Azure program, Accenture, Cognizant, and Rackspace, alongside regional Microsoft Expert MSPs. Opsio delivers Azure migration services as a Microsoft Partner with AWS Migration Competency recognition, supported by 50-plus certified engineers across its Karlstad, Sweden headquarters and ISO 27001-certified Bangalore delivery centre, a 24/7 NOC, a 99.9 percent uptime SLA, and a primary focus on mid-market and Nordic enterprise clients.
Migrate to Azure With Zero Downtime
Azure migration projects fail for predictable reasons: incomplete discovery misses critical dependencies, landing zones are built without proper governance, databases are migrated without testing application compatibility, and post-migration optimisation is skipped because the team is exhausted from the migration itself. The result is an Azure environment that costs more than on-premises, performs worse, and requires constant firefighting. These failures are avoidable with proper methodology. Opsio follows a structured four-phase migration methodology: Assess, Design, Execute, Optimise. Assessment uses Azure Migrate and custom discovery tools to catalogue every workload, dependency, and data flow. Design builds the landing zone — management groups, subscriptions, networking, security policies, and identity integration — using Terraform for reproducibility. Execution migrates workloads in prioritised waves using Azure Migrate, Database Migration Service, and custom tooling with zero-downtime cutover strategies. Optimisation right-sizes resources, implements Reserved Instances, and configures monitoring for steady-state operations.
Our certified Azure architects have migrated hundreds of workloads across industries including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology. We handle every migration path: VMware to Azure, Hyper-V to Azure, physical servers to Azure VMs, SQL Server to Azure SQL, and application re-platforming to Azure App Service, AKS, or Azure Functions. Every migration includes security hardening, compliance validation, and performance testing before production cutover. Featured reading from our knowledge base: We Help You Execute On Premise to Azure Cloud Migration Strategy Effectively, and Cloud Migration Project Plan: Strategies for Seamless Transition and Growth. Related Opsio services: AWS Cloud Migration Consulting — Plan & Execute, AWS Migration Services — MAP Funded, Zero-Downtime, Azure Migration Services — Microsoft-Native, Zero-Downtime, and GCP Migration Services — Built for Data & AI Workloads.
Service Deliverables
Migration Assessment
Azure Migrate-driven discovery of servers, databases, applications, and dependencies. TCO analysis, migration complexity scoring, and wave planning for phased execution. Compliance gap analysis for regulated workloads.
Landing Zone Architecture
Enterprise-scale landing zones using management groups, subscriptions, and Azure Policy. Hub-and-spoke networking, Azure Firewall, Private Link, Azure AD integration, and compliance guardrails deployed via Terraform.
Server Migration
Azure Migrate for VMware, Hyper-V, and physical server migration with continuous replication and minimal cutover downtime. Re-platforming to Azure App Service or AKS for suitable workloads.
Database Migration
Azure Database Migration Service for SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle migrations. Schema assessment, compatibility testing, continuous replication, and validated cutover with near-zero downtime.
Post-Migration Optimisation
Right-sizing with Azure Advisor, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan implementation, monitoring configuration with Azure Monitor, and security posture validation with Defender for Cloud.
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