Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

Azure Storage Mover–A managed migration service for Azure Storage

File storage is a critical part of any organization’s on-premises IT infrastructure. As organizations migrate more of their applications and user shares to the cloud, they often face challenges in migrating the associated file data. Having the right tools and services is essential to successful migrations.

Illustrating a migration's path by showing two arrows. The first arrow for data traveling to a storage account from the source/agent and a second arrow for only the management/control info to the storage mover resource/service.

Across workloads, there can be a wide range of file sizes, counts, types, and access patterns. In addition to supporting a variety of file data, migration services must minimize downtime, especially on mission-critical file shares.

Source: Azure Storage Mover–A managed migration service for Azure Storage