Four waves, no business-hours downtime
Azure, AWS or hybrid: certified on both, selling neither by default
The right answer usually follows your existing licensing, your regulator and where your team already has skills.
Microsoft 365, backup and disaster recovery
Cloud migration questions from UAE businesses
Will our data stay in the UAE?+
It can. Azure operates UAE North and UAE Central, and AWS operates me-central-1 in Dubai. Where regulation, a contract or your own policy requires in-country residency, we design for it and evidence it.
How much downtime does a migration involve?+
For most SMB workloads, none during business hours. Data is seeded and synchronised in advance, and the final cutover happens overnight or at a weekend with a documented rollback.
Is cloud cheaper than our own server?+
Not automatically. Cloud wins on resilience, remote access and avoiding a capital purchase every five years. A stable, heavy workload can still be cheaper on hardware you own. We model both over three years.
What happens to our Microsoft licences?+
Existing Windows Server and SQL licences with Software Assurance usually transfer under Azure Hybrid Benefit, often the single biggest saving in a migration.
Do you manage the cloud after migration?+
Yes. Monitoring, patching, backup, cost review and security sit under the managed agreement, so the estate does not drift after go-live.