Azure Migrate also helps Colyer determine what workloads and VMs are suited for Azure and whether to use IaaS or get out of OS and infrastructure management going directly to PaaS services.

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Customers could be looking to move data to Azure because they ... will add support for Azure's VMSS, or Virtual Machine Scale Sets, to auto-scale virtual machines as needed, he said.