Both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are considered top cloud computing companies. However, there are certain aspects unique to each vendor, and many significant advantages that are driving organizations from AWS to Azure migration.
This article examines the key factors organizations should consider when leaving AWS and migrating to Azure, including vendor lock-in, data portability, and differences in availability models.
Finally, the article looks at some of these advantages and explains the steps required to migrate AWS EC2 instances to Azure. Including explanations about setting up Azure site recovery and preparing a process server on AWS.
AWS vs. Azure: Why Make the Move?
Here are some key advantages that may drive organizations to make the move from AWS to the Azure cloud:
Hybrid cloud capabilities—Azure provides proven, robust tools to connect on-premise data centers to the cloud. For example, Azure File Storage is highly useful for lift and shift migrations because it works with the SMB protocol.
Easier onboarding—Azure is considered easier to use than AWS, especially for existing Microsoft users, and offers many services using a PaaS model to make adoption and migration easier for customers. Although AWS provides very powerful options and over 100 cloud services, it can take time to learn the environment and to become productive.
Azure Site Recovery (ASR)—provides fully automated migration of workloads to Azure. In addition, your organization can easily back up data from any Windows device, on-premise or on Azure, to cloud storage using Microsoft Azure backup services.
Strong native support for Microsoft products—if you or your clients make extensive use of Microsoft products like Windows or Office, Azure is a natural choice.
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