What Belongs in Azure and What Does Not
Not every workload improves in the cloud. Being honest about that upfront is the difference between a migration that pays for itself and one that quietly doubles your IT spend.
- 01Good fits: file servers, domain controllers, backup targets, test environments, anything with spiky demand
- 02Poor fits: workloads that need constant high-bandwidth access to on-premise hardware, and legacy apps whose vendor will not support them in the cloud
- 03The middle ground: a hybrid setup where identity and backup live in Azure while a local server keeps latency-sensitive work fast
- 04The real driver is usually resilience, not cost. A dead server in your office is a week of downtime; a dead VM in Azure is a redeploy