Vision to value - SAS accelerates modernization at scale with Azure
summary
Scandinavian Airlines modernizes 100+ apps and migrates 25 applications and many databases from VMs to a serverless PaaS stack using Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service, running discovery and targeting with Azure Migrate, Database Migration Service, DMA, AppCat code assessment and a third‑party Cloudpilot. Claims: SQL on Azure can cost 80% less and run up to 5x faster than AWS; customers report ~30% operational savings, improved scaling (pause/resize), and successful production cutovers. New MI features include an IOPS slider, 500 databases per instance, and GA update‑policy plus private preview for mirroring to Fabric.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Modernization strategies
- 2:22SAS journey and cloud vision
- 5:16Modern database solutions
- 7:28Azure SQL management features
- 11:06Advanced migration features
- 19:04Azure migrate tool demo
- 23:35Code assessment techniques
- 27:46Database migration assessment
- 32:11SAS fireside chat
- 44:07Closing resources
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