Azure Accelerate
Fuel transformation with experts and investments across the cloud and AI journey.
Overview
Get end-to-end expert guidance and investments
- Kick off or advance your cloud projects by tapping into the expertise of the Azure specialized partner ecosystem. Use their deep technical skills and industry-specific knowledge to help you design, implement, and optimize solutions tailored to your business needs.
Benefit from zero-cost deployment assistance from Cloud Accelerate Factory. Work directly with Microsoft experts who apply proven strategies to help you implement in weeks to drive faster time to value. - Minimize financial barriers and accelerate business outcomes with funding for all project types and phases by engaging with specialized Azure partners. Additionally, with Azure credits, you can offset project costs, laying the groundwork for innovation.
Strengthen your team’s capabilities and AI readiness with a robust library of free, on-demand technical content. Plus, get customized training resources tailored to your organization’s goals. - Simplify your cloud journey with AI-powered tools and assessments for streamlining planning and business case development.
Whether you're exploring new solutions or scaling up, get the resources you need to ensure a smooth, efficient implementation—and maximize value across your cloud environment.
Benefits
Fuel your cloud and AI transformation
Cloud Accelerate Factory
Get zero-cost deployment assistance for 30+ Azure services from Microsoft experts.
Offset costs with funding and credits
Reduce your financial impact with funding to work with specialized partners as well as Azure credits.
In-depth assessments
Get critical insights on your organization’s infrastructure, databases, and apps with Azure Migrate.
Access to a wide range of training
Build team expertise with learning paths and technical workshops on AI and Azure solutions.
Azure Essentials
Get access to proven methodologies and tools.
See how Azure partners can help
Support your cloud and AI transformation with funding and expert guidance from Azure’s specialized, industry-leading partners.
Customer stories
See how customers are successfully adopting Azure
Solutions
Explore supported solutions
E-book
Build an AI-Ready IT Estate
Learn how to prepare your infrastructure, databases, and applications for AI-powered innovation.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure Accelerate brings together Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate under one unified offering—with the same coverage and benefits.
- Azure Accelerate applies a methodical, two-phase approach to every project. During the planning phase, you’ll build a plan for your workloads in Azure by assessing your environment, creating a business case, or running a proof-of-value project. When your project is ready, you’ll work with a team of experts to create an Azure landing zone, then start migrating or building your new solution in Azure.
- Scenarios supported by Azure Accelerate include:
- Migrating Windows Server, SQL Server, Linux, and OSS database workloads to Azure (onboarding servers and databases to Azure Arc is also supported)
- Migrating VMware to Azure VMware Solution
- Migrating to SAP on Azure or SAP RISE
- Migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop
- Migrating Oracle databases and applications to Azure
- Migrating high-performance compute (HPC) workloads to Azure
- Modernizing mainframe and midrange workloads
- Securing Azure environments with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Building safer, more secure agents and AI experiences
- Developing intelligent applications with Microsoft’s AI platform
- Using scalable analytics and real-time machine learning
- Migrating and modernizing legacy data with Power BI Premium and Azure Databricks
- Enhancing developer workflows with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio
- Implementing integration solutions with Azure API Management and Logic Apps
- Azure Accelerate comes with a variety of benefits, including:
- Zero-cost assistance from Microsoft experts through Cloud Accelerate Factory to deploy 30+ Azure services
- Azure credits and partner engagement funding to lower your project costs from planning to deployment
- A funded migration and modernization assessment
- A free sandbox environment to explore the capabilities of Azure in a pilot
- AI and cloud skilling resources to help teams gain expertise and certifications
- Customized optimization recommendations from tools such as Azure Migrate and Azure Advisor
- Proven best practices such as Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Cloud Accelerate Factory, included with Azure Accelerate, jumpstarts your projects with zero-cost deployment assistance from Microsoft experts. Informed by best practices developed through thousands of engagements, Cloud Accelerate Factory can deploy 30+ Azure services alongside your Azure partner to ensure a timely, high-quality deployment—whether you’re migrating legacy databases and applications or modernizing your security, data analytics, and AI workloads.
- There are two ways to begin:
- Reach out to our Azure sales team for personalized guidance and insights on how to start with Azure Accelerate.
- Work with one of our specialized Azure partners to help you implement these solutions and ensure you get the most out of Azure's offerings.
Next steps
Take the next step
Tell us what you’re solving for. A Microsoft specialist will help you find the best mix of expert guidance, funding, and tools to accelerate your cloud and AI adoption.
Find a qualified partner
Work with a specialized Azure partner to help you implement your solutions—and ensure that you get the most out of Azure Accelerate.
Choose the Azure account that’s right for you
Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.