CAREER PATH

Cloud Migration Specialist

A genuinely project-based title — lift-and-shift, replatforming, and everything that goes wrong along the way.

7 clusters 5 domains ~60 hours AZ-305 aligned

Drag to rotate · click a node to jump straight into that domain

Who this is for

Basic Azure compute and networking familiarity assumed.

How this path works
Each cluster below links to its real lesson page. Go in order the first time through — later clusters assume the ones before them. Once you've done a full pass, use it as reference.

The path — in order

Compute

01
What most migrations are actually moving.
Domain 1 · Compute

Storage & Data

02
Data migration is usually the hardest part.
Domain 2 · Storage & Data

Networking

03
Recreating the source network topology correctly.
Domain 3 · Networking
04
Hybrid connectivity during the migration window itself.
Domain 3 · Networking

IaC & DevOps

05
Defining the target environment as code before migrating into it.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps

Resilience

06
Azure Site Recovery — often literally the migration tool itself.
Domain 7 · Resilience
07
Making sure the migrated environment is actually more resilient, not less.
Domain 7 · Resilience

Certification this path maps to

AZ-305: Solutions Architect Expert

No single Microsoft certification targets migration specifically — AZ-305 covers the architectural design skills migrations require most.

Where this leads

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer covers what you're usually migrating workloads onto. Solutions Architect is the natural senior progression.

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