I was honored to be invited by the Microsoft Logic App product group to contribute to the BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services Architecture Guidance documentation alongside my fellow MVPs: Michael Stephenson and Stephen W Thomas.
📝 One-Minute Brief
An overview of the official architecture guidance for migrating BizTalk Server solutions to Azure Integration Services. This post highlights why organizations should consider migration, compares BizTalk Server with Azure Integration Services capabilities, and explains how the guidance helps teams choose the right Azure services, define migration strategies, and design hybrid or cloud‑native integration architectures.
This guideline is focused on clients considering or having already decided to move their entire BizTalk Server on-premises integration solution to Azure, or parts of the solution to Azure, thereby creating some hybrid solutions. Of course, in this process, many questions about best practices to use, what services to use, and others will be raised.
This guide provides an overview of the reasons and benefits, product comparisons, capabilities, and other information to help you start migrating from on-premises BizTalk Server solutions to Azure Cloud Integration Services. Following this guide, you’ll find more guides that cover how to choose the services that best fit your scenario, along with migration strategies, planning considerations, and best practices to help you deliver successful results:
- Benefits of Migration
- Azure Integration Services Introduction
- BizTalk Server vs. Azure Integration Services
- What Azure technology to use when
- BizTalk Migration Approach
- Best Practices when building Azure Integration Services solutions
- Road Map
This is a simple feature matchup diagram that you will find in the guide:
If you want to know more about it, the architecture guide is available here: BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services Architecture Guidance.
See the original Microsoft announcement here: Announcement: BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services Architecture Guidance.
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