The Azure Migrate business case enables customers to create a detailed comparison of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for their on-premises estate versus the TCO on Azure, along with a year-on-year cash flow analysis as they transition their workloads to Azure. With this new capability, customers can now visualize the added value of Azure Arc for their on-premises estates throughout their migration journey. Customers , in addition to getting the TCO of migrating all their resources to Azure, can now compare their estimated current on-premises TCO with the estimated TCO of their on-premises estate with Azure Arc, visualize the cost savings and other benefits of using Azure security (Microsoft Defender for Cloud) and management tools (Azure Monitor and Azure Update Manager) via Azure Arc for their on-premises servers, and see the licensing benefits of Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc, as well as SQL Pay-As-You-Go via Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server.
For those not planning to migrate their entire estate or on a long migration journey, they can compare their current on-premises TCO with the combined Azure and Azure Arc TCO in the final planned state to help plan better. Customers can edit the assumptions for Azure and on-premises costs and download the business case report using the export option to share with other stakeholders. Customer can also identify machines not Arc onboarded already from Azure Migrate to start the onboarding process.
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