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Azure Migration Services
Azure migration budgets overrun because dependencies are discovered after the move starts, not before. Crunch-IS plans the full scope upfront — so your cloud migration lands on time and on budget, without surprises.
Challenges We Solve
Cutover Risk Stalling Projects
Fear of downtime and failure often delays cutover. Teams hesitate to go live, and without a tested plan that caution is justified.
Unplanned Cloud Costs
After migrating, organizations often face unplanned bills from idle or over-provisioned resources when cost controls weren’t established early.
Hidden Scope Complexity
Many applications contain dependencies and integrations that were never fully documented. Changing one component can affect several others in ways that aren’t obvious until something breaks.
Engineering Capacity Lost to Infrastructure
Development teams spend significant time patching and maintaining on-premises infrastructure. That burden belongs on the cloud provider — not on your engineers.
Benefits of Azure Migration Services
Elastic cloud scaling replaces hardware provisioned for peak load. You pay for what you use, and the savings scale with your usage patterns.
Scaling on-premises requires lead time, procurement, and installation. On Azure, capacity adjusts in minutes. Growth stops being blocked by a procurement cycle.
Security capabilities that would have taken months to build on-premises — Defender for Cloud, identity management, and compliance tooling — are available from day one in the migrated environment.
Development teams running production infrastructure can redirect that time to product work. The operational gains from cloud migration often matter as much as the cost savings.
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What We Do
Migration Strategy Design
We evaluate your current environment, application dependencies, and compliance requirements before moving anything. The Azure migration strategy is shaped by your business priorities, governance model, and operational timelines.
Server Migration
We assess application dependencies, securely replicate workloads, and validate system performance before cutover. Configuration is confirmed to meet Azure best practices, so servers will run reliably after the transition.
Data Migration
We migrate databases, warehouses, and pipelines with validation checkpoints at every stage. Nothing reaches the other side without being confirmed intact — covering Azure SQL, Synapse Analytics, and other targets based on your architecture.
Application Migration to Azure
We review system integrations, workload behavior, and growth requirements before moving applications. Some move with minimal changes. Others need targeted refinements for performance, scalability, and long-term stability in Azure. The path depends on the workload.
Post-Migration Stabilization
Once the environment is live, we run a structured hypercare period — monitoring performance, validating security configuration, and resolving anything that surfaces under real production conditions. The engagement doesn’t close at go-live.
Our Capabilities
Infrastructure and Networking
Virtual machine migration, virtual network design, and hybrid connectivity for production workloads. Architecture decisions are grounded in how your environment actually runs.
Application and Container Services
AKS and Azure App Service migrations are handled by practitioners who work in these environments daily.
Data Platform Migration
Database migration to Azure SQL and Synapse Analytics, including warehouse and pipeline migration with full validation at every stage. Our Azure Migration solutions cover the complete data layer from source to target.
Identity, Security, and Observability
Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics are configured as part of every migration. You arrive in a secure, observable environment from the start.
FinOps and Cost Governance
Resource tagging, governance policies, and cost management frameworks are configured before the first workload moves.
Cutover Planning and Validation
Parallel environments, production-condition validation, and rollback options are maintained at every stage. Cutover planning is built around what your business can tolerate.
What You Get
Engineers Who Validate in Production
The team that scopes and builds your migration validates it under real production conditions before you go live. There’s no hand-off to a separate testing layer, and no one learning your environment for the first time at go-live.
Environment You Can Own
Your team gets full environment documentation and governance controls, designed so you can manage and evolve without needing us. Handover is complete by design.
FinOps From Day One
Cost governance is configured before anything moves. You see where spending is going and have the controls to adjust it early — before costs have a chance to compound.
Hypercare as Standard
Every engagement includes a post-migration hypercare period: performance monitoring, optimization, and rapid response to issues that surface in the live environment.
What Our Clients Say About Us
They come up with lots of scalable and best-practice ideas that enable us to achieve what we have right now.
Crunch-IS was great at leading us on what good should look like and bringing our ideas to life for evaluation and review.
Crunch-IS impressed me with is the quality of developers. It is simply much better than in any other company we’ve tried working with.
We are impressed with their performance, how they are engaged with product development, and how they care about the product.
It’s been a very enjoyable experience. All has been fantastic about communicating, and working.
Our partnership with Crunch-IS has been an invaluable resource as we’ve scaled.
What I found in Crunch-IS was the technical competency, ability to think outside the box, and very good English.
They have a large impact on the whole architecture we ended up with. Overall, I’ve been pleased and impressed with everything Crunch-IS did for us.
Crunch-IS impressed us with their technical excellence and the sheer ‘meeting of minds and cultures’ and open, honest exchanges. This was not a decision we took lightly, and 5 months into the engagement we continue to be really impressed with how Crunch-IS approach the collaboration, and we’re delighted with the calibre of the team we have working with us.
Working with Crunch-IS was easy. They were patient with us as we worked through the contract questions and patient again as we were getting our billing set up. The design work was elegant and the developer delivered the app we had contracted for on time and good quality.
The team at Crunch-IS was very nice to work with. They worked diligently and were very professional. When questions or technical problems arose, they answered them quickly and were always ready and kind about helping us.
Crunch-IS developer helped us deliver an important feature for our project much faster than expected.
Crunch-IS facilitated a seamless, collaborative effort throughout the project. The team maintained open lines of communication, kept detailed records of task assignments, and adhered to project timelines. Their expertise regarding both design and development sets the company apart.
Crunch-IS provides ongoing development support that meets project requirements as needed. Despite their offshore location, they are easy to work with and accessible through communication channels
The best vendor we could possibly find. Crunch-IS blends practical development with innovative design principals. Internal and external feedback to app development has been positive. They complete project milestones by the planned schedule and deliver within budget. The team’s responsive and willing to engage in productive dialogue.
Crunch-IS exceeded my expectations. I appreciated the developers’ resourcefulness in the face of constraints and complex requirements. The company able to deliver and complete the project successfully.
The project has gone smoothly so far. Crunch-IS has an exceptional work ethic. Consequentially, they’ve been able to tackle every challenge that comes their way. They manage day-to-day work on their own well but also communicate with us regularly to make sure we’re on the same page.
The app Crunch-IS worked on is clean, streamlined, and functions as intended. Crunch-IS goes above and beyond to ensure that both teams are in tune. The passionate team crafts an enjoyable experience through their positive demeanor and effective project management skills. The team was very friendly, and working with them was a pleasure.
Why Crunch-IS
Certified Azure Architects
Our architects hold Microsoft Azure certifications and bring pattern recognition from migrations across diverse industries. They’ve seen where these engagements go wrong — and built that knowledge into how we scope and plan every one.
Single Lead, Full Accountability
Clients work with a dedicated migration lead for the entire engagement. You’re not passed between teams or handed off at each phase. One person owns the outcome and is accountable to you from the first assessment through go-live.
Failure Points Built In
Dependency mapping, cutover validation, cost governance, and post-migration benchmarking are standard for every engagement. We don’t offer them as add-ons because we know what happens when they’re skipped.
FAQs
What is Azure migration?
Azure migration is the process of moving your on-premises workloads, applications, databases, and infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. It involves dependency mapping, workload sequencing, and governance configuration, so the environment you land in is production-ready.
What is an Azure cloud strategy?
An Azure migration strategy is a structured plan that determines when and in what order your workloads move to Azure. It accounts for risk tolerance, compliance requirements, and business priorities. Without one, organizations tend to migrate reactively — and pay for it later through unexpected costs, re-architecture work, and operational gaps.
What are the main Azure migration scenarios?
Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework defines five primary approaches:
- Rehost (lift-and-shift) moves workloads to Azure with minimal changes — fast and low-risk, but limited optimization.
- Replatform makes targeted adjustments without changing core architecture, improving performance and scalability for workloads that need it.
- Refactor re-architects applications to use cloud-native Azure services: auto-scaling, serverless, PaaS.
- Replace retires a workload with a SaaS alternative where one exists.
- Retire decommissions systems that no longer carry business value.
Most migrations use all five — applied per workload based on its business driver. A migration strategy defines how each workload transitions to Azure based on its specific business driver, which is why assessment comes before sequencing. Choosing rehost for everything reduces risk upfront but leaves optimization work for later. Choosing to refactor across the board extends timelines and costs without proportional return.
The right Azure migration solutions match each workload to the approach it actually needs.
How long does an Azure migration take?
It depends on the scope and the migration approach chosen for each workload. Small migrations often complete in 10 weeks. Mid-sized environments typically take 3–6 months. Enterprise-scale migrations run 9–18 months or longer. These ranges cover planning, execution, validation, and stabilization.
How much does Azure migration typically cost?
Three things determine the number: environment size, migration strategy per workload, and how you handle governance before anything moves.
For SMBs, the total project cost typically ranges from $5,000 to $40,000. Mid-market migrations commonly land in the $50,000–$150,000 range. Enterprise-scale projects vary significantly beyond that, depending on workload count, data volume, and the extent of re-architecture.
Our Azure migration services include FinOps controls as standard. You’re not discovering spending problems after the fact. For a deeper look at how cloud migration affects total IT cost, see How Cloud Migration Reduces IT Costs and Operational Overhead.
Will migration cause downtime for our business?
Not if it’s planned properly. We run parallel environments, validate against real production conditions, and keep rollback options open at every stage. Cutover planning is built around what your business can tolerate.
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