Migration of on-prem databases into the Cloud
SQL Server on Azure VMs provides the exactly same functionality as an on-prem
SQL Server installation.
Thus migrating («lift and shift») an on-prem database into the
Cloud is as easy (or painful) as moving the database from one on-prem server to another.
With
Azure SQL Managed Instance, a migration is also touted to be easy. But because there are some functional differences between SQL Server and SQL Managed Instance, an application might need to be tweaked for the migration.