Playbook
Our database estate is end-of-life and licensing costs are climbing
Legacy Oracle and SQL Server estates are approaching end-of-support and the renewal quote is unaffordable. Application teams want polyglot databases (relational, document, graph) but the platform team needs governance and a credible migration story per workload class.
Trigger — Database EOL + licensing cost shock.
Good outcome — Azure SQL Managed Instance and Cosmos DB baselines live, migration wave planned per workload, Defender for SQL in place.