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

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.