Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Rehost
Rehost is often referred to as lift-and-shift migration. When you rehost your applications to the cloud, each application is migrated as-is to the cloud. This technically means that you move the VMs or on-premises servers and put them into the cloud infrastructure. The applications that are installed on the on-premises VMs and servers are then moved in their original state, without any code changes or refactoring of the application.
You can use some of the managed services in the cloud as well. For instance, you can migrate your databases to Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, or MySQL on Azure.
In the following diagram, you can see an illustration of a lift-and-shift migration. On-premises VMs with applications and databases deployed on them are ...
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