Is this the new SOA?

small office administrator is getting a bit long in the tooth atm. with browsers shutting down silverlight support etc and the client versions stuck on version 8.

is this avast for business cloud taking over SOA’s role? we really need to move away from SOA asap

In short, yes.

Can i move my licence from SOA to “Avast for Business”?

Info & FAQ: https://support.business.avast.com

No official word on SOA’s fate but I’m assuming there will eventually be only one on-premise console.

Currently Avast is supporting the on-premise for AEA, SOA and the ones for AVG. I would expect SOA and AEA to stay as they are until whatever the on-premise replacement ends up being is ready