Finally, our VM is migrated to the cloud and running in Azure. Migrating with ASR allows us to minimize the downtime of our services but isn't the only option. 

AzCopy allows us to copy data from on-premises to the cloud as well, and can be used as a migration tool for all sorts of files. Another option is to use PowerShell to upload VHDs to Azure and use them to deploy the Azure VM.

Azure import/export job is used to transfer a large amount of data to Azure. Imagine you have disks with 4 TB of data. Copying that over internet would take a lot of time. With Azure import/export job, you can create a job in Azure, copy that to physical disks and ship them to the Azure Datacenter. Disks will be then available to you in the Azure portal and you can use this data in the cloud. The process can go in the other direction as well and you can export data from Azure and ship it to yourself.