A company wants to migrate a legacy ASP.NET web application to Azure. The application currently runs on Windows Server 2012 R2. The business wants to reduce OS maintenance overhead and leverage auto-scaling, but they do not have the budget to rewrite the application code. Which TWO migration strategies represent a 'Replatform' approach for this application? (Select TWO)

Answer options:

Migrate the application to an Azure Virtual Machine.

Migrate the application to Azure App Service.

Rewrite the application as microservices using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Containerize the application and run it on Azure Container Instances.

Replace the application with a SaaS product.

How to approach this question

Identify PaaS or Container solutions that don't require code rewrites.

Full Answer

Replatforming involves moving an application to a cloud-managed platform (like App Service or Containers) to gain cloud benefits without rewriting the core architecture. Rehosting is moving to VMs. Refactoring is rewriting code.

Common mistakes

Selecting Azure VM (Rehost) or AKS rewrite (Refactor).

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