shashban explores the capabilities of the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, detailing its AI-powered approach to streamlining migration and modernization for enterprises.

Accelerate Cloud Migration with Azure Copilot Migration Agent

Cloud migration projects for enterprises frequently face hurdles like fragmented tooling, lengthy assessments, and unclear ROI. The Azure Copilot Migration Agent introduces AI-driven intelligence to every stage of migration, helping organizations move workloads and modernize applications with speed and confidence.

Key Features

AI-powered Discovery and Assessment: Automatically map on-premises infrastructure, databases, and applications. The agent delivers a tailored business case, including migration costs and ROI projections based on actual usage.
Automated Landing Zone Configuration: Build secure, compliant Azure environments in hours rather than weeks. It utilizes Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework to set up networking, identity, policies, and resource organization, reducing manual configuration and minimizing risk.
OSS Database and Linux Modernization: Supports the latest Linux distributions (RHEL 9.5, Rocky Linux 9.5, Ubuntu 24.04, Alma Linux 9.5). Consolidates assessment and migration for PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, offering actionable upgrade and tuning recommendations for seamless modernization.

Workflow Overview

Migration Agent operates from within Azure Copilot—an AI-powered assistant for cloud operations. Users are guided through:

Discovery & Assessment: Leveraging AI models for estate mapping and readiness evaluation.
Business Case Generation: ROI analysis tailored to organizational environments.
Landing Zone Deployment: Governance-aligned setup validated against best practices.
Modernization: Streamlined database/application upgrades in a unified experience.

Integration Benefits

Eliminate manual steps and fragmented tooling.
Receive intelligent, goal-adaptive recommendations based on real environment data.
Gain faster outcomes while improving compliance and governance.

Getting Started

Sign up for early access to Migration Agent in Azure Copilot.
Learn more at Azure Migrate.
Get expert help via Azure Accelerate.

Updated Nov 19, 2025, by shashban (Microsoft)

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