The Azure cloud is moving fast in so many areas. Understandably, migration tools that can assist and automate the process of migrating applications to Azure are of great importance in order to encourage a move away from existing infrastructure.
Two such tools that I’ve discovered recently are the Web Apps Migration Assistant, which is detailed here, and the Data Migration Assistant, detailed here.
The Web Apps Migration Assistant will analyse your hosted IIS (and even Linux) web apps, and can migrate them (if compatible) to the Azure App Service as Web Apps.
The Data Migration Assistant targets SQL Servers and analyses them for migration to Azure SQL Database. This tool does not perform the migration, instead it highlights the incompatibilities that exist and suggests remedial action, this could include preparing fixes as Transact-SQL scripts. Tools such as SSMS or SQLPackage.exe can be used to migrate the database to Azure, a good overview of this process is here and a deeper discussion of the process is mentioned in this SQL CAT blog. Of course, you may want to determine if your database is even suitable for running in Azure and tools exist such as this one to help size the database prior to migration.
These two tools could help fast-track your move to the cloud, and whilst some effort will still be required, they remove much of the manual effort that was previously required in shifting your applications and databases to Azure.
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