| author | stevenmatthew |
|---|---|
| ms.author | shaas |
| ms.topic | include |
| ms.date | 09/16/2022 |
| ms.service | azure-storage-mover |
Azure Storage Mover is a hybrid cloud service. Hybrid services have both a cloud service component and an infrastructure component. The service administrator runs the infrastructure component in their corporate environment. For Storage Mover, that hybrid component consists of a migration agent. Agents are virtual machines, deployed to and run on a host near the source storage. To learn more about the agent and how it's deployed, read the Storage Mover agent deployment article.
Except for the agent registration process, all aspects of a migration are managed from the cloud service. Details about the agent registration process are available within the agent registration article.