Migrate from Azure to Google Cloud: Get started

Google Cloud provides tools, products, guidance, and professional services tohelp you migrate workloads, data, and processes from Azure to Google Cloud. Thisdocument introduces a discussion about how to design, implement, and validate aplan to migrate from Azure to Google Cloud.

The discussion is intended for cloud administrators who want details about howto plan and implement a migration process. It's also intended fordecision-makers who are evaluating the opportunity to migrate and who want toexplore what migration looks like.

Google Cloud offers robust capabilities and support for running Microsoftstack-based workloads, with potential cost savings, depending on your specificneeds. For example, Cloud Run provides a serverless environment that scalesautomatically based on demand for your .NET workloads, and Cloud SQL for SQL Serveroffers a fully managed, SQL Server-compatible database experience.

Migrating your workloads, data, and processes from Azure to Google Cloud can bea challenging task and can take days, weeks, or months to complete, depending onthe scope and size of the migration.

Azure and Google Cloud products that target similar use cases might seem similarin the way you provision, configure, and use the resources that they provide.However, despite similarities, these resources might differ significantly in theway they work and in their requirements. We therefore recommend that you assessthe ways in which similar Azure and Google Cloud resources work before you planyour migration.

This series provides guidance about the following migration journeys:

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Last updated 2025-09-18 UTC.