Cloud Architecture Center missing Azure to GCP migration

[dheerajpanyam]

The Cloud Architecture Center portion of GCP documentation has detailed documentation on migrating AWS workloads to GCP. However I do not find anything for Azure to GCP migration. It would be nice to have this included also, thank you.

[reinc · Accepted solution]

Hi @dheerajpanyam,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community! 

You're correct, Google's Cloud Architecture Center doesn't offer a dedicated "Azure to GCP" migration guide equivalent to the AWS documentation. However, here are the resources and strategies you can use to gather information and plan your Azure to GCP migration:

• Migrate to Virtual Machines: This is Google's primary tool for migrating VMs from various sources, including Azure, to Compute Engine. 
• Database Migration Service (DMS): For migrating databases from Azure to GCP (ex: SQL Server on Azure VMs to Cloud SQL).
• Storage Transfer Service (STS): For migrating data from Azure Blob Storage to Google Cloud Storage.

Start your Azure to GCP migration by understanding how services map between the two platforms. Here's a service mapping to get you started:

Compute

• Azure VMs -> Compute Engine
• Azure Machine -> Managed Instance Group
• Azure Container Instances (ACI) -> Cloud Run
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) -> Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Storage

• Azure Blob Storage -> Cloud Storage
• Azure Files -> Cloud Filestore
• Azure Disks -> Persistent Disk
• Azure NetApp Files -> Cloud Volumes Services

Networking

• Azure Virtual Network -> Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Azure Load Balancer -> Cloud Load Balancing
• Azure VPN Gateway -> Cloud VPN
• Azure DNS -> Cloud DNS

Databases

• Azure SQL Database -> Cloud SQL for SQL Server 
• Azure Cosmos DB -> Cloud Spanner 
• Azure Cache for Redis -> Memorystore for Redis

For reference, check here the Medium Blog about A Deep Dive into Service Mappings — Azure to GCP Migration written by RahulRaghav. It provides a comprehensive mapping of equivalent services between Azure and GCP.

If you need urgent assistance and detailed guidance, please reach out to Google Cloud Support directly.


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[dheerajpanyam]

Thanks so much @reinc