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Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization

Program Overview and Requirements

Program Overview

Partners who demonstrate deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success in migrating Windows Server and SQL Server-based production workloads, and production workloads running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE virtual machines (and/or MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL databases in Microsoft Azure) may seek the Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization.

Workload migration presents partners with a unique opportunity to secure long-term cloud relationships with customers, which can lead to high-value, innovative managed services that open up new and recurring revenue streams. The Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization allows partners with an active Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure) or Data & AI (Azure) designation to further differentiate their organizations, demonstrate their capabilities and expertise in migrating infrastructure & database workloads (including Linux VM's and open-source databases) to Azure, and build stronger connections with customers.

Partners who earn a specialization will have a customer-facing label displayed on their business profile, gain access to specific go-to-market programs, and be prioritized in customer searches in Microsoft AppSource. For these reasons, this opportunity is available only to partners who meet additional, stringent requirements.

Learn more about specializations.

How do I apply?

Only an MPN Account Administrator or a Global Administrator of an organization's Microsoft partner account can submit an application for the Infra and Database Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization on behalf of the organization. If you have the appropriate role and access, you can apply by signing into Partner Center and navigating to your Partner Center dashboard > Membership > Specializations.

What are the requirements?

Eligible partners must meet the highest standards for service delivery and support. All requirements will be verified by Microsoft and/or a third-party vendor, either automatically or by manual review, and are subject to change.

Details

Your organization must have an active Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) or Infrastructure (Azure) designation.

Details

Your organization must show customers migrating to Azure and meet the following requirements.

Your organization must show an average of at least $10,000 USD Windows Server Virtual Machine (VM) Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR)** in the previous three (3) months from at least three (3) customers (aggregated from across your customers), and your organization must also show an average of at least $5,000 USD Linux Virtual Machines (VM) Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR)** in the previous three (3) months from at least three customers* (aggregated from across your customers).

AND

Your organization must show an average of $3,000 USD from SQL Managed Instance (MI), SQL Database (DB), and SQL VM ACR** in the previous three (3) months from at least three customers (aggregated from across your customers). At least $1,000 USD of that average must be from SQL MI or SQL DB.

AND

Your organization must also show an average of $1,500 ACR** in the previous three (3) months from at least three (3) customers* (aggregated from across your customers) from any, or a combination of, these databases:

Azure Database (DB) for MariaDB
Azure DB for MySQL
Azure DB for PostgreSQL
Azure Cosmos DB

Learn more about Azure ACR.

Note: Your organization can have the same set of three (3) customers meeting the requirement for both Windows and SQL Server or they could be different.

**ACR can be achieved through Digital Partner of Record, Partner Admin Link, and Cloud Solution Provider.

Government subscriptions (i.e. Fairfax) are not eligible for ACR via PAL association.

Details

Your organization must have at least three (3) individuals who have passed the following certification (each certification listed below is held by at least one individual):

Details

Your organization must pass a third-party remote audit. Please see the audit checklist for more details.