Migration Guide
Migrate from GCP to Azure
Full cloud migration: map Compute Engine to Azure VMs, Cloud Storage to Blob Storage, Cloud SQL to Azure Database, Cloud Functions to Azure Functions, and IAM reconfiguration.
What you get
Risk assessment
Blockers, warnings, and unknowns ranked by severity
Effort estimate
Hours, t-shirt size, and role breakdown
Cost estimate
Labor, infrastructure, and tooling cost range
Migration steps
Ordered execution plan with durations
Open questions
What still needs to be answered before you start
Draft config or code
Starter configs when the migration path supports it
Why teams migrate from GCP to Azure
Good fit when
- +Organizations with Microsoft enterprise agreements looking to consolidate cloud spend.
- +Teams that need deep Active Directory and Office 365 integration.
- +Workloads that benefit from Azure's hybrid cloud capabilities (Arc, Stack).
Strengths
- Native integration with Microsoft enterprise tools (Teams, Office 365, Entra ID).
- Strong hybrid and multi-cloud management via Azure Arc.
- Broad compliance certifications for regulated industries.
Tradeoffs
- GCP's data and ML services (BigQuery, Vertex AI) are harder to replicate on Azure.
- Azure's networking and IAM models differ from GCP's flat service account approach.
- Some GCP-native patterns (Cloud Run, Spanner) have less direct Azure equivalents.
Migration notes
- Map GCP service accounts and IAM bindings to Entra ID roles and managed identities.
- Migrate data: Cloud Storage to Blob Storage, Cloud SQL to Azure Database, BigQuery to Synapse or Fabric.
- Translate networking: GCP VPCs and firewall rules to Azure VNets and NSGs.
- Plan compute: Compute Engine to Azure VMs, GKE to AKS, Cloud Run to Container Apps, Cloud Functions to Azure Functions.
- Rebuild CI/CD pipelines for Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with Azure deploy targets.
How it works
Describe your migration
Select GCP as source and Azure as target. Add context about your setup — configs, docs, architecture notes.
Keshro runs the analysis
Keshro researches the path, finds similar past migrations, and generates a structured assessment with risks, effort, cost, and steps.
Get your plan
Review the migration plan, refine it with your team, and use it as a living document during execution.
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