Architecture
Migration support platform
Design the Azure services used for orchestration, durable processing, status tracking, notifications, reporting, and validation.
Azure migration foundations
Build the Azure services that make the migration operable
Migration programs often need more than a copy tool. We design the Azure identity, automation, integration, storage, queueing, monitoring, and security services that support discovery, orchestration, validation, and ongoing operations.
What the engagement can cover
Technical work tied to the migration plan
- Managed identities, app registrations, workload identities, PIM, certificate and secret handling, and least-privilege access
- Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Automation Accounts, Storage, Queues, Service Bus, and scheduled processing
- Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, data handoffs, webhooks, integration patterns, and secure service principals
- Private endpoints, virtual networking, firewall rules, ingress controls, and zero-trust architecture decisions
- Application Insights, Log Analytics, dashboards, alerts, audit records, and operational runbooks
- Resource ownership, tagging, budgets, right-sizing, retention, and cleanup of temporary migration infrastructure
Engagement options
Azure work that commonly supports Microsoft migrations
Identity
Secure application access
Establish app registrations, managed identities, permissions, certificates, secrets, and approval records for migration utilities.
Operations
Observability and runbooks
Add logging, alerts, dashboards, failure handling, retry behavior, ownership, escalation, and support procedures.
Remediation
Existing Azure migration tooling
Review and stabilize unreliable functions, pipelines, queues, integrations, access, networking, or cost controls.
Define the workload
Document the process, throughput, data, integrations, security, failure modes, retention, and support expectations.
Select the minimum architecture
Choose services based on workload requirements rather than building a general platform before it is needed.
Implement security and telemetry
Add least-privilege access, configuration management, structured logs, alerts, dashboards, and audit evidence.
Test operations
Exercise retry, replay, failure recovery, scale, deployment, support, and cutover scenarios before production use.
Document ownership and cleanup
Define support responsibilities, costs, retention, post-migration use, and retirement of temporary resources.
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Frequently asked questions
Do all migrations need an Azure architecture?
No. Azure is useful when the workload requires custom orchestration, integration, durable processing, scale, reporting, or security controls that are not well served by the migration tool alone.
Can Horton Scientific work in an existing Azure landing zone?
Yes. We can follow your identity, networking, security, tagging, deployment, monitoring, and change-control standards.
What happens to temporary migration resources after cutover?
The design includes ownership and cleanup decisions. Resources can be retired, retained for validation and reporting, or transitioned into an ongoing operational service.
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