Azure to STACKIT Assessment

More organizations are evaluating STACKIT as a sovereign alternative to hyperscale cloud providers, driven by data residency requirements, compliance pressure or a wish to reduce dependency on a single vendor. This assessment provides a factual, engineering-led view of what such a move actually involves.

The outcome is a clear picture of which workloads can move to STACKIT with reasonable effort, which depend on Azure-specific services that have no direct equivalent, and a prioritized roadmap that balances sovereignty goals against migration cost and risk.

Making sovereignty requirements actionable

The assessment starts with the workloads, not the cloud brand. We catalogue application components, data classifications, integrations, operational requirements and Azure service dependencies. Participants then map these needs to STACKIT capabilities and identify gaps in managed services, identity, networking, observability, data platforms and automation. This produces an evidence-based view of the effort behind each candidate workload.

Data residency, contractual requirements and operational sovereignty are examined alongside technical fit. The workshop distinguishes mandatory controls from preferences and explores options such as a selective migration, a hybrid architecture or retaining specific workloads on Azure. We also cover the engineering consequences: landing-zone design, infrastructure as code, CI/CD adaptation, backup, incident response and team skills.

Instead of a generic cloud comparison, the team receives a decision-ready portfolio view. It shows quick wins, prerequisites, risks, expected migration waves and the cases in which staying on Azure remains the more responsible technical choice.