Today every organization whether it is big or small is migrating to cloud-based service to instant transformation of the required information. But the problem which is faced by every organization is to search for the best cloud option. Among various options Migration to Azure Cloud Services is one of the best options because of its versatility. Developed by Microsoft Azure has emerged as one of the multifarious cloud platforms offering a wide range of services. For Example Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Simple steps to migrate to Azure cloud-based services which are as follows:
Assessing:
Assessing means understanding the type of cloud-based services that will be good for your organization. This includes discovery, map and evaluation.
- Discover
There are different types of cloud migration assessment tools to compile and make a list of your physical and virtual servers being used by your organization. It should also contain information about various applications used by you and their performance. This will help you in making every small piece of information regarding your servers and their metadata. Therefore, it helps in selecting the best cloud migration plan for your organization. - Map
Make an outline of your servers assessing their relevance to the applications used by you and then classify them according to their segment. This is helpful in getting a complete idea about various applications and their dependence on each other. - Evaluation
Once you have classified the applications, it is now time to evaluate which migration strategy will be good for them. This is done with the help of cloud migration assessment tools to understand the recommendations and migration strategies determined by Azure. After this, it is time to evaluate the cost of each possible option and select the one according to your needs.
Migration:
As the second step you need to follow these four steps:
- Rehost
In this step just shift your application without any change in their code to Azure. Therefore,the process is called ‘lift-shift’ migration. While doing this make sure that there is no need to change the code of applications you are moving, and they will directly move for orchestration on the Azure. - Refactor
Here you will need to make subtle changes in the design of the application but not to its code. The applications will use the benefits offered by IaaS and PaaS from Azure. - Rearchitect
This is the step where you will need to change the codebase of the applications to make them suitable for adjusting in the cloud. This change can be modifying or modernizing or making it deployable by itself. - Rebuild
It relates to rebuilding all applications with cloud-native applications, offered by Azure PaaS.
Optimization:
To optimize your migration to the cloud there are three steps. These are:
- Analyze
For this, you need to use the Azure Cost Management and Analyze tool to analyze the time you spend on the cloud without any error. This helps in taking decisions regarding the investment in the type of plan you need to use for your organization. - Save
With the help of Azure Hybrid Benefit and Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances you can work effectively with the migration plan according to your workload. - Re-Invest
Azure offers you the feature to modify and secure your migrated and current workloads into savings.
Securing and Managing:
As the final step, you need to secure and manage your migrated data. For this there are some steps which are:
- Secure
Use Azure Security Centre to ensure the security and proper management of your cloud database. In addition,The Azure Security Centre offers extra protection with full transparency and control over cloud applications. - Protect Data
The feature facilitates you to take the backup of applications offered in Azure and protects your data from threats without any extra financial burden on your wallet. - Monitor
This helps you in monitoring the working of your cloud data, applications, and various other things along with appropriate analysis.
Summing-Up:
Because of its versatile and cost-effective plans, the Azure cloud is gaining huge popularity across the world. According to an estimate, the market share of Azure in the cloud market accounts for up to 30% whereas 17% of the market is owned by IaaS and PaaS.
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