Azure Migration Prep: Assessing and Planning On-Premises Workloads

Moving your infrastructure to the cloud can feel overwhelming without a clear roadmap. Proper preparation is the single most important factor in a successful migration, saving costs and preventing downtime before you ever move a single workload. This course guides you through the essential foundational phases of preparing your on-premises environment for Azure. You will learn to analyze your current infrastructure, evaluate readiness, estimate costs, and establish a secure, modern landing zone in the cloud. What you'll learn: * Learn core migration terminology, strategies, and cloud adoption frameworks. * Assess on-premises servers, databases, and web applications for Azure readiness. * Analyze workload dependencies and estimate post-migration hosting costs. * Plan network connectivity, subnets, and hybrid identity integration. * Configure basic Infrastructure as Code templates for a secure landing zone. * Apply modern security and zero-trust principles to your migration strategy. We start with foundational cloud migration concepts and terminology before moving step-by-step through discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, and target architecture planning. You will read practical, real-world scenarios and review configuration examples to build a robust migration plan. This course is designed for IT administrators, system engineers, and technology beginners who want to understand the planning phase of cloud migration, with no prior Azure experience required. Start reading today to build a foolproof migration strategy for your organization.