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# How can I move my Business Central-related Azure resources to a new Azure region?

[Read the post](https://demiliani.com/2026/08/10/how-can-i-move-my-business-central-related-azure-resources-to-a-new-azure-region/) · Stefano Demiliani (Stefano Demiliani, MVP) · 2026-08-10 · 3849 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> Guide for migrating Business Central-related Azure and Power Platform resources from West Europe or North Europe to the new Italy North region. Covers strategic reasons for migration, detailed step-by-step procedures for Azure services (Application Insights, Storage, Function Apps, Logic Apps, SQL Database, Azure OpenAI) and Power Platform environments, migration strategies to minimize downtime, cost considerations, and post-migration reconfiguration tasks.

## Key points

- Moving Azure services to Italy North is optional; average latency is about 22 ms from Italy North to West Europe, so most services are barely affected.
- Most Azure resources (Application Insights, Storage, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Azure OpenAI) are recreated in the new region and their data and settings copied over; Azure SQL can also use Resource Mover.
- Power Platform geo-to-geo migration requires a Microsoft Support request at least 10 days ahead, involves downtime and cannot run in parallel with the old environment.
- Canvas apps and flows outside solutions, enterprise policies, DLP rules and environment groups do not migrate and must be recreated.
- Business Central needs updated connection strings and endpoints afterward, such as the telemetry connection string and the Power Platform environment references.

## AL objects mentioned

As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

- other "Application Insights"
- other "Azure Storage Account"
- other "Azure Function Apps"
- other "Azure Logic Apps"
- other "Azure SQL Database"
- other "Azure OpenAI"
- other "Power Platform Dataverse"
- other "Power Automate"
- other "Power Apps"

## Context

- Features: Geo-to-Geo migration for Power Platform, Azure Resource Mover for SQL Database, Parallel-run migration strategy, Scheduled maintenance window migration, Connection string management, Data backup and restore procedures, Post-migration reconfiguration, Cost estimation for dual-region operation

Source: Stefano Demiliani, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.