[FIXED] How to migrate azure data factory to another data center

Issue

We have a Azure Data Factory, hosted in EastUS data center. We want to move that to WestUS data center, as our VMs reside in the WestUS datacenter. Moving VMs to EastUS data center is tougher option, as VMs hold databases of size > 4 Tera Bytes. Creating another data factory in WestUS data center will be difficult, as we will lose all our previous pipeline execution logs.

There are options available for move to different resource group, different subscription. But, not sure on how to move a data factory to new data center location.

Please help.

Solution

Notice how Azure Data Factory (under the Analytics category) is not available in West US but that Data Movement is. So don't stress about which region Azure Data Factory lives in. The small API calls it makes to execute a stored proc in your database will cross region and incur a tiny amount of egress charge but so little it is not worth worrying about. If Azure Data Factory does any Copy Activities they will occur using Data Movement resources in West US if data is being copied from West US to West US.

If the egress charges on your Azure bill prove otherwise then please clarify what ADF is doing exactly.

Answered By - GregGalloway

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (PHPFixing Volunteer)