Azure Migrate provides a centralized hub to assess and migrate to Azure on-premises servers, infrastructure, applications, and data. It provides the following: Unified migration platform: A single portal to start, run, and track your migration to Azure

VMware environment runs natively on Azure Bare Metal infrastructure, on Azure cloud locations. ... You can seamlessly move VMware workloads to Azure and integrate with your VMware management environment, using the same and existing management tools.

Azure reduces the cost of infrastructure. In the past, physical servers needed to be kept in a climate controlled room, with dedicated IT staff to maintain, update and rebuild when necessary. Microsoft Azure eliminates the need for physical infrastructure and all the challenges and expenses that go along with that.

As a quick overview and definition of terms, a “lift and shift” is where existing resources are migrated from the on-prem environment into Azure. A close cousin of this is a Greenfield deployment where new VMs are provisioned in Azure and only the data is moved from on-premises.