Azure managed services Move to Azure with no surprises – at cutover or on the bill

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud platform, where you rent servers, databases, storage and security services and pay for what you use. Businesses most often use it instead of running their own servers in a server room. Your data can stay in EU regions such as Austria East (Vienna) or Germany West Central (Frankfurt). We move your servers there and then run them 24/7.

The cost of Microsoft Azure depends on the number and size of your servers, storage, network traffic and licensing. The baseline is pay-as-you-go; according to Microsoft, a one- or three-year reservation saves up to 72 % and a savings plan up to 65 %. Existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences with Software Assurance come along with Azure Hybrid Benefit. We estimate your monthly costs precisely in the assessment.

An on-premises to Azure migration runs in three steps: assessment, pilot and migration waves. First we measure utilisation and map dependencies over a few weeks and recommend for each server whether to rehost, modernise, keep on-premises or retire it. Then we move a less critical system, followed by the rest in waves with a rollback plan. After go-live we take Azure into 24/7 operation.

Rarely with zero downtime, but with no downtime during business hours, yes. We cut over outside business hours, test a pilot system first and prepare a rollback plan for every wave in case something does not behave as expected. How long a cutover takes depends on the application and the amount of data; we estimate it for each system in the assessment.

Yes, if it is configured properly. Microsoft secures its data centres and the platform, while settings, access and data are your responsibility or your partner's. That is why we build every environment with a landing zone, Defender for Cloud, Entra ID with multi-factor authentication, and backup with Azure Backup or Veeam against agreed RPO and RTO.

Good – they stay focused on your users and your business. We take on the migration, 24/7 monitoring and Azure costs, and they get a partner who covers nights and holidays.

It can, if nobody runs it. That is why we calculate costs before the move, right-size every VM and check every month where you can save. Whatever runs better on-premises stays there.

In the EU. There is no Azure region in Slovenia or Croatia; the closest are Austria East (Vienna), Italy North (Milan), Germany West Central (Frankfurt) and Poland Central (Warsaw), each with three availability zones.