How to Save Cost on Migrating .NET Web Applications to Azure Cloud?

Posted by narolasolutions on January 29th, 2021

You’re here which means you’re planning to be migrating your web applications to the cloud. Well, that’s undoubtedly a smart decision! Migrating your .NET application to the cloud comes with significant benefits for your business.

It helps to simplify your work while saving a huge amount on migration and maintenance.

Importance of Cloud Adoption

With the rising need for digital transformation, businesses are evolving every day. They’re completely changing the way their employees work to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. On the other hand, the technological transformation has also exceeded digital demands.

As result, companies get more online requests for goods, information, and services. It gets extremely difficult to keep track of all requests in legacy systems due to limited storage capacity.

As per a recent analysis of the costs and benefits of .NET application migration to the cloud, Microsoft Azure is the perfect cloud environment. It can seamlessly run ASP.NET web application workloads by saving a lot of costs, time, and effort.

With Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, companies can save more than 50% of their expenses when compared to on-premises systems. Moreover, the platform is 30% less expensive than AWS.

Be it, SQL Server, Windows Server, or .NET workloads, Azure App Service Migration Assistant is the best option with unparalleled performance and pricing. It works on almost all apps and database destinations either PaaS or IaaS.

Top Benefits of Choosing Azure Cloud Services to Manage Your ASP.NET Workloads

Power up your business operations with a more intelligent, secured, innovative, unique, faster, and cost-saving transition to Microsoft Azure. Switch your on-premises Windows and SQL Server workloads to Azure and experience the next-level digital transformation. 

Here are 5 quick benefits of implementing Azure -

·         Seamlessly integrate all the on-premises, cloud, and edge infrastructure in your hybrid environment.

·         Innovated app, data, and infrastructure with faster and fully managed services.

·         Simplify security management with unified, intelligent tools and more than 90 industry-leading compliance offerings.

·         Take advantage of unique pricing benefits for your existing Windows Server and SQL Server workloads.

Usage of Azure Hybrid Environment for Structured Query Language (SQL) Server

Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) lets users embrace their existing on-premises licenses, such as SQL Server and Windows Server, over to Azure.

With Microsoft Azure, companies can save up to 80-85% cost on acquiring the lowest ownership cost. They can choose to pay as they use any new feature.

By leveraging the Azure Hybrid Benefits, you can be covered with extended security updates, reservation savings, and much more.

Azure Hybrid Benefit works seamlessly for Structured Query Language (SQL) on Azure Dedicated Host and Azure. It offers 180 days of dual-use rights which means you can keep up with all on-premises operations, data, and information while migrating to Azure. Hence, no data loss.

Save Huge Cost on Microsoft Azure Consulting Services

Using Azure application service reserved instance pricing is the next most important way to minimize your investment. It helps you save up to 35% cost within one year and almost 55% cost for three years subscription.

However, if you opt for ‘pay-as-go prices’, costs might vary.

Azure Testing and Development Cost

By choosing Azure Test/Dev pricing, you can save up to 70% cost on your ongoing development and testing tasks. Serverless tools like Azure Logic Functions and Apps help you reduce unnecessary code that makes development even better and more streamlined.

The employee productivity and work quality are enhanced by 50%.

By leveraging Azure Dev/Test pricing discounts, you can make a smooth switch to Premium v3 and Premium v2. This is a very affordable approach for Visual Studio subscribers. They can test workloads by deploying to the virtual network (VNet) connectivity.

Reduce the Operational Costs

By switching to Microsoft Azure, you can manage your .NET web applications and databases more effectively. This end-to-end web hosting platform helps you automate crucial tasks so that the employees can focus on something more important and productive.

This also lets you add custom domains, SSO, SSL Certificates, and Identity Service Integration to your apps which results in strengthening security.

 Lower Compliance and Regulatory Cost

By simplifying or automating the monitoring work, you can reduce the compliance and regulatory cost by 30% when compared to the on-premises hosted applications.

Furthermore, optimizing Azure’s AI-powered SQL can automate the query optimization and tuning.

Enable Autoscaling

Like AWS, Microsoft Azure helps people to use the servers that they need. It helps them optimizing the applications and databases to enhance their performance and satisfy the varying needs of the market and customers.

If you’re ready to migrate your ASP.NET web app workloads to Microsoft Azure, hire a Microsoft Azure Consulting Partner to ensure seamless implementation. At Narola Solutions, we can help you experience a smooth transition without losing any data and information.

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