What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)?
When you migrate to the AWS Cloud, there are critical planning tasks, many groups of stakeholders, and best practices to consider. The AWS CAF is a framework that brings AWS experience and best practices to companies preparing to migrate.
The framework provides tools to help accelerate the migration journey, organize resources, and align management during the transition.
Benefits
- Reduce business risk and improve sustainability
- Grow revenue by creating new products and services
- Reduce operational costs and increase productivity
- Improve customer experience
Use Cases
- Migrate technology like legacy infrastructure and applications
- Migrate and optimize business processes and operations
- Create new business models with the move to the cloud
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The Six Perspectives
AWS CAF has six focus areas, also called perspectives.
There are several groups of stakeholders and various parts of the business to consider in your migration planning and readiness.
Business Perspective
The Business perspective makes sure that IT aligns with business needs and that IT investments link to key business results.
Use the Business perspective to create a strong business case for cloud adoption and prioritize cloud adoption initiatives.
Common roles to consider: Business managers, Finance managers, Budget owners, Strategy stakeholders
People Perspective
The People perspective supports development of an organization-wide change management strategy for successful cloud adoption.
Use it to evaluate organizational structures and roles, assess new skill and process requirements, and identify gaps.
Common roles to consider: Human resources, Staffing, People managers
Governance Perspective
The Governance perspective focuses on skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy.
Use it to understand how to update the staff skills and processes necessary to maintain business governance in the cloud.
Common roles to consider: CIO, Program managers, Enterprise architects, Business analysts, Portfolio managers
Platform Perspective
The Platform perspective includes principles and patterns for implementing new solutions in the cloud and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.
Use a variety of architectural models to understand and communicate the structure of IT systems and their relationships.
Common roles to consider: CTO, IT managers, Solutions architects
Security Perspective
The Security perspective makes sure that the organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility.
Use AWS CAF to structure the selection and implementation of security controls that meet the organization's needs.
Common roles to consider: CISO, IT security managers, IT security analysts
Operations Perspective
The Operations perspective helps you to enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business stakeholders.
Define how day-to-day, quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year business is conducted.
Common roles to consider: IT operations managers, IT support managers
