As well as in a local environment, you will need to authenticate users and manage access rights. In most cases we implement it using Azure Active Directory: in this case, the action of the local access rights management system simply extends to the cloud. When using a hybrid infrastructure for user convenience, you can implement end-to-end authorization technology.

When moving to the cloud, NAS and SAN systems are replaced with cloud storage that will meet the performance requirements of the migrated workloads. You have a choice of many types of warehouses: managed disks, file storage, object storage, archive data storage, big data storage, etc. We will configure the storage for each workload: performance and access levels, backup, geographic replication, and disaster recovery.

When you move to the cloud, you will no longer depend on the physical network topology, which makes it easier to connect to it. By migrating applications from your local environment to the cloud, you can easily maintain the same topology and even use the same IP address range. You can also optimize the configuration.

By creating a copy of the workload in the cloud using the dependency map, we can replicate and run the VMs in the correct order. For example, in a web application, the data source must be available before the application is launched. After creating replicas of the required hosts and configuring storage and network connections, you can start testing. When you are sure that all your systems are working as intended, it is time to make the final transition: start the system in the cloud and stop running the local applications.