Precision migration planning powered by FOCUS data & AWS pricing intelligence

Accurately predicting migration cost can be difficult and time-consuming—most assessments rely on estimated discounts, manual service mapping, and assumptions about your environment. This leads to budget overruns, delayed migrations, and weak business cases.

The Azure to AWS Cost Assessment uses actual Azure usage and real AWS pricing to deliver accurate, service-level cost projections—so you can identify savings and plan migrations with confidence.

What’s New

Now available in the nOps platform, Azure to AWS Cost Assessment leverages FOCUS data to automatically extract technical specifications from your Azure environment and map them to AWS services—eliminating cost uncertainty and accelerating planning.

Real AWS Pricing Intelligence

Unlike tools that apply discount estimations to Azure costs, we calculate actual AWS costs using all relevant data, including:

  • Region-specific pricing (us-west-2 vs us-east-1 rates)
  • OS-specific adjustments (Windows vs Linux Reserved Instance rates)
  • Exact instance type matching (Azure D16 v3 → AWS m5.4xlarge)
  • Commitment-based pricing (takes existing commitments into account)

Let’s take a look at a quick real-world example saving 18.8%.

Azure Environment

AWS Like-for-Like

  • D16 v3 Windows VM (16 vCPU, 64GB RAM
  • West US 2 region
  • 720 hours/month
  • Current cost: $1,021.11/month
  • m5.4xlarge (Windows)
  • us-west-2 region
  • 720 hours/month
  • Current cost: 720 x $1.152/hour = $829.44/month

Complete Service Coverage

The assessment analyzes of your Azure services and maps each to its AWS equivalent.

Azure Service

AWS Equivalent

Typical Savings

Virtual Machines

EC2

17.3%

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

62.9%

SQL Database

RDS

9.2%

Application Gateway

ALB

40.5%

Storage Accounts

S3 + EBS

8.4%

Business Case Generation

Each assessment generates a detailed business case with:

  • 3-year total cost of ownership (TCO) projection
  • Monthly cash flow breakdown
  • Per-service savings analysis
  • Commitment strategy recommendations (e.g., No Upfront RIs)

Each business case includes both BilledCost (actual Azure charges) and ListCost (retail AWS pricing) for a complete financial picture.

How It Works

The full process takes less than 45 minutes. To get started:

  1. Integrate your Azure FOCUS export. Follow this step-by-step guide to configure Azure Focus Export in nOps

  2. Extract technical specifications. nOps parses the FOCUS data to extract key details for each resource, including vCPU, memory, OS type, region, usage hours, and metered consumption (e.g., compute, storage, network)

  3. Map to AWS equivalents. Each Azure resource is mapped to the closest AWS service using our intelligent mapping engine:

    • High Confidence (90%): Exact spec match (e.g., D16 v3 → m5.4xlarge)
    • Medium Confidence (8%): Near equivalent with validated assumptions
    • Low Confidence (2%): Flagged for manual validation

  1. Apply real AWS pricing. Region-specific public pricing, OS-based adjustments, and commitment pricing (if applicable) are applied.

  1. Generate a detailed migration report & cost assessment.

    • Executive Summary with key metrics and ROI 
    • Detailed Service Analysis with AWS mappings & risk assessment
    • Business Case Documentation with 3-year projections
    • Technical Migration Plan

How To Get Started

If You’re Already on nOps…

Have questions or need help getting started? Simply reach out to your Customer Success Manager, visit our Help Center, or send our Support Team an email.

If You’re New to nOps…

Want to see Azure to AWS Cost Assessment in action? Book a demo with one of our AWS experts to get started.

nOps was recently ranked #1 in G2’s Cloud Cost Management category, and we optimize $2B+ in cloud spend.