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If you're interested in backing up services (Sharepoint, Exchange, etc), there are products out there like Veeam but the new Microsoft 365 Backup does a lot of that too and is built-in. I've been batting this issue around with our IdM team for a while now around making EntraID backups. Azure says ...

If you have to migrate anyway, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID now, I guess) has gotten to the point where you may be able to use just that. It ties in to almost everything and you can run local DCs running weird protocols to support legacy apps if you need. All the Microsoft security stuff comes tied ...

If your concern is about the underutilization of all these separate RDS instances, it might be worth the hassle to try out the serverless tiers for Amazon Aurora and Azure SQL on new deployments (doesn't help you with Oracle, but something). They're not a great fit for super heavy workloads but it does ...