This white paper argues that successful Azure migration requires a thorough readiness assessment to prevent misaligned outcomes, cost overruns, delays, and underperforming systems. It explains how an Azure Cloud Readiness Assessment builds an inventory of applications and infrastructure, maps dependencies, estimates cloud economics, and surfaces risks across security, compliance, governance, skills, and hidden costs. It provides a practical checklist covering business goals, application readiness, dependency mapping, staging tests, staff readiness, and migration planning with timelines, cost, scalability, and flexibility considerations. It also outlines an adoption roadmap aligned to the “7 Rs” migration options, from refactor and replatform to rehost, relocate, retain, retire, and repurch

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