Building a migration roadmap

Microsoft defines building a complete road map and strategy for migrating your applications to Azure with the following four steps:

• Assess
• Migrate
• Optimize
• Secure and manage

These are described in more detail in the upcoming sections.

Assess

This is the first phase of the migration journey. In this first step, you take a view of your current environment; you get an overview of all of the virtual machines, applications, and on-premises servers that are deployed inside the environment, and what the migration of all of these different components and features will look like.

This first step—assessing your current environment—consists of the following four steps.

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