Six months after migration, your cloud bill runs 40% higher than projected. On top of that, three legacy applications are running on workarounds your team built at 2 a.m. Meanwhile, the engineer who sold the project internally is now defending it in a budget review with a slide deck that no longer reflects reality. This is not a horror story. In fact, this is Tuesday for a significant number of enterprise teams that migrate to Azure every year. Azure is a mature platform. And the failures you read about, the blown budgets, the performance regressions, the identity nightmares, almost none of them are Azure's fault. They are plan failures wearing the costume of platform failures. Your migration is only as good as the plan that preceded it, and most enterprise migration plans get built around vendor timelines and licensing incentives rather than your actual workload reality. What Azure Migration Actually Involves Most vendors present migration as a single motion, but it is not.…