Announcing Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate - offerings to accelerate your cloud journey

Cloud adoption has been crucial to the transformation of businesses of all sizes and industries over the past several years and continues to be a key pillar in business strategy. By adopting the cloud, customers unlock many benefits including scalability, cost savings, and flexibility. The recent advancements of AI offer organizations a further opportunity to innovate in new ways such as creating intelligent products and services, predictive & advanced data analytics, improving customer experience, and more.

Each organization’s cloud journey vary – some organizations need support migrating to the cloud, while others need help building new applications using cloud native architecture or leveraging AI.  Whether you are migrating to gain efficiency, improve security, create an AI-ready data estate; or to build your own AI infused solutions—now you have the curated resources you need in one place.

Announcing Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate

Today, Microsoft is announcing two new Azure offerings, Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate, to help you at every stage of your cloud journey from migration to innovating with AI. Our flagship program Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP) is now Azure Migrate and Modernize, an expanded offering taking ingredients from AMMP and adding increased capabilities including assessments, deeper partner incentives, as well as support for additional workloads like High performance computing (HPC), Oracle, Linux, SAP, and mainframe migrations.

Azure Innovate is a new offering designed to help you with your advanced innovation needs such as infusing AI into your apps and experiences, advanced analytics, and building custom cloud native applications. With the interest in analytics and momentum we are all seeing with AI, we’re creating additional partner skills to deal with the demand and investing in resources and capabilities within Azure Innovate to assist you. Azure Innovate will help at each stage from planning to deployment. You will receive guided assistance as you explore and design capabilities for your unique business workloads and be able to use pilots and POCs, assessments for application modernization, resources for analytics migration and modernization, and receive assistance deploying your own AI copilot using your data.

Both these offerings address your end-to-end cloud journey on Azure:

• Comprehensive resources in one place: extensive guidance with assessments, proof of concepts (PoCs), pilots, tooling, deployment assistance - ensuring a well-architected, and optimized approach from start to finish.
• Proven technical frameworks: Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF), will help you design optimized workloads from the start, with security and cost recommendations built throughout.
• Free automated tooling: Azure Migrate provides you with discovery, assessment, business case analysis, planning, migration, and modernization capabilities.
• Access to experts: Microsoft experts or specialized partners will help you at each step, from planning to deployment - with assessments, total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, cloud adoption approaches, workshops, pilots, and even deployment.
• Microsoft-led delivery: In addition to specialized partners being available for more complex workloads, with Azure Migrate & Modernize you can also benefit from Microsoft-led delivery for rapid rehost migrations increasing speed and lowering cost of migration even further.
• Partner funding for specialized partners: We’re deepening our investment in our partner ecosystem, increasing both capacity and capability across the Azure portfolio, to get you expert help when you need it. Read more about our expanded investments in our partner ecosystem here.
• Extensive coverage from migration to innovation – Our new offerings will help you across a wide range of your cloud adoption needs: including migrating or modernizing Windows Server & SQL Server, Linux, Oracle, SAP, HPC, analytics, AI and more. 

With their robust set of tools and resources, Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate will help enable a smooth transition to the cloud, providing you with flexibility, scalability, and cost savings on your own terms.

Get access to Azure Migrate and Modernize & Azure Innovate by talking to your Microsoft or partner representative. For partners, read about our latest announcements about product updates and these offerings in our blog and attend “Turn vision into impact with Azure” Inspire session.