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 end-to-end process of discovering, assessing, planning, and executing the movement of on-premises or multi-cloud workloads — including servers, databases, applications, and data — to Microsoft Azure with minimal risk and downtime. Standard scope across the delivery lifecycle includes workload discovery and dependency mapping, readiness assessment and right-sizing, landing zone design aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, phased execution covering lift-and-shift and re-platforming, post-migration validation and performance tuning, and cost governance using Azure Hybrid Benefit for existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences. Core tooling draws on Azure Migrate as the centralised assessment and orchestration hub, Azure Database Migration Service for high-availability migrations of SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, Azure Site Recovery for near-zero-downtime virtual machine migrations, and Azure Data Box where limited bandwidth makes online transfer impractical. Infrastructure-as-code provisioning typically uses Terraform or Bicep to ensure repeatable, auditable landing zone deployments, while Azure Cost Management and Microsoft Defender for Cloud underpin spending control and security posture from day one. Leading vendors active in this space include Microsoft, Accenture, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Technologies, each offering managed migration programmes for enterprise workloads. Pricing varies considerably by workload volume and complexity; Microsoft's own migration programme provides Azure credits and FastTrack for Azure engineering support for qualifying mid-market engagements. Opsio, a certified Microsoft Partner with 50-plus certified engineers and a 24/7 NOC, delivers Azure migration services from its Sweden headquarters and ISO 27001-certified Bangalore delivery centre, combining Nordic enterprise governance expectations with cost-effective offshore execution under a 99.9 percent uptime SLA.
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. Related Opsio services: AWS Cloud Migration Consulting — Plan & Execute, Cloud Migration Service Provider, AWS Migration Services in India — AWS MAP & 2-Hour Cutover, and Cloud Migration Services in India — AWS MAP & Zero Downtime.
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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