Over the years, many businesses have structured their IT infrastructure around VMware. Now, shifts in licensing models and cloud partner contracts threaten cost stability. Many organizations may face sudden cost increases or more complex billing models especially if licensing terms or vendor programs change.
With Azure VMware Solution (AVS), organizations can take the VMware environments they know and trust and extend them seamlessly into Azure. The result? Greater agility, predictable costs, and a faster path to innovation, all without the disruption of rebuilding applications. It’s the simplest way to modernize your IT infrastructure while staying in control of your operations and spending.
As organizations modernize their infrastructure, managing the cost of transformation becomes increasingly complex. Many VMware customers face new pricing pressures and program shifts creating uncertainty for long-term IT planning.
At the same time, cloud adoption brings its own challenges: retraining teams, re-architecting workloads, and managing unexpected costs. These combined factors make balancing innovation with fiscal control more critical than ever.
AVS presents a way to smooth that transition: it blends familiarity with innovation and places cost risk with Microsoft allowing organizations to breathe easier about license changes.
One of AVS’s core advantages is that VMware licensing is bundled into the offering. Thus, Microsoft absorbs the licensing and pricing risk, insulating your organization from sudden licensing model shifts.
AVS supports Reserved Instances for one, three, or five-year terms, offering fixed, predictable pricing. That financial certainty empowers planners and CFOs to budget long-term with confidence.
Moving VMware workloads to Azure need not be disruptive. Through a tested migrate-manage-modernize approach, the transition becomes structured and manageable:
By adopting AVS, organizations gain:
Your workloads run on VMware-validated infrastructure in Azure, backed by Microsoft’s management. On top of this, you gain full access to Azure services and capabilities such as:
Limited-time offers may allow fixed pricing for up to 5 years, giving financial security during change. Meanwhile, you gain the agility to modernize apps, exit data centers, or refresh infrastructure more easily.
The move toward Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is more than just a defensive response to rising costs it’s a proactive strategy for achieving cloud-led growth.
AVS delivers cost predictability through bundled licensing and reserved pricing, ensures operational continuity by preserving existing VMware skills and architecture, and unlocks innovation through seamless access to Azure’s vast cloud services.
Every organization’s cloud journey is unique. But if parity, predictability, and innovation matter to you, AVS is an excellent bridge. With expert partners like Zones, the journey is smoother, cheaper, and more strategic.
With deep expertise and a strong track record, Zones is well positioned to help organizations make a successful AVS transition. Here’s why:
By combining Microsoft, VMware, and Zones expertise, organizations enjoy a migration experience that is fast, low-risk, and aligned to strategic goals.
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