Migrating an Amazon AWS EC2 Instance to Microsoft Azure

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I performed a migration of my EC2 instance (Windows 2012 R2 server called PRODSVR) from AWS to Azure today using Azure Site Recovery.  This is how I did it…

Prepared Azure Infrastructure

Before performing any migrations, I prepped my Azure environment.  To do so, I logged into my Azure Resource Manager portal and created a Resource Group called AWSMigrationLab and deployed the following resources into it:

• Virtual Network
• Storage Account

I deployed the Virtual Network with an address space of 172.31.0.0/16 and a default subnet of 172.31.0.0/24.

Although I own several storage accounts, I created a separate account called myawsmigrationstorage and placed it into my AWSMigrationLab resource group so I could easily kill it off when I was done with the lab.   I specified GRS replication for the storage and selected General Purpose.  I used the cheapest disk I could find – this is a lab after all.

Prepared my AWS Environment

Once I had my storage account and virtual network configured in Azure, I switched over to my AWS dashboard and completed the following tasks:

• Deployed an EC2 Instance to function as my Azure Site Replication Configuration Server and named it CONFIGSVR
• Opened firewall for my PRODSVR EC2 Instance

When deploying my Azure Site Replication Configuration Server, I chose a t2.medium instance type, running Windows 2012 R2 and gave it 650GB of disk space (600GB of FREE space is recommended for the Configuration Server).  I deployed the server to the same VPC (virtual network) as my PRODSVR – 172.31.0.0 and gave it a static IP address.