An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework | AWS White Paper Summary

Migrating to the cloud is a process. You don't just snap your fingers and have everything magically hosted in AWS. It takes a lot of effort to get applications migrated to AWS and having a successful cloud migration is something that requires expertise.

Luckily, many people have had successful cloud migrations in the past, so a lot of the knowledge around how to go about hosting on AWS has been captured and shared.

AWS CAF organizes guidance into six focus areas. We describe these focus areas as Perspectives.

Each AWS CAF Perspective is made up of a set of CAF Capabilities, which is a composite of responsibilities. Each Capability describes what a stakeholder owns or manages in the cloud adoption journey. Each Capability consists of a set of CAF Skills and Processes that provide structure to identify gaps in your existing skills and processes.

In General, Business, People, and Governance Perspectives focus on business capabilities, and the Platform, Security, and Operations Perspectives focus on technical capabilities.

___________ AWS CAF Perspectives: ___________

1-Business Perspective: [Value Realization]

Focuses on ensuring that IT is aligned with business needs and that IT investments can be traced to demonstrable business results.
Engage stakeholders within the Business Perspective to create a strong business case for cloud adoption and ensure that there is a strong alignment between your organizations business strategies and goals and IT strategies and goals.

Common roles: Business Managers, Finance Managers, Budget Owners, and Strategy Stakeholders.

Capability Descriptions:

2-People Perspective: [Roles and Readiness]

Provides guidance for stakeholders responsible for people development, training, and communications. Helps stakeholders understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes they will use to optimize and maintain their workforce, and ensure competencies are in place at the appropriate time.

Common roles: Human Resources, Staffing, and People Managers.

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3-Governance Perspective: [Prioritization and Control

Provides guidance for stakeholders responsible for supporting business processes with technology. Helps stakeholders understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud and manage and measure cloud investments to evaluate their business outcomes.

Common roles:CIO, Program Managers, Project Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, and Portfolio Managers.

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4-Platform Perspective: [Applications and Infrastructure

Helps stakeholders understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to deliver and optimize cloud solutions and services

Common roles: CTO, IT Managers, and Solution Architects

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5-Security Perspective: [Risk and Compliance]

Helps stakeholders understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure that the architecture deployed in the cloud aligns to the organizations security control requirements, resiliency, and compliance requirements.

Common roles: CISO, IT Security Managers, and IT Security Analysts.

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6-Operations Perspective: [Manage and Scale]

Helps stakeholders understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure system health and reliability during the move of operations to the cloud and then to operate using agile, ongoing, cloud computing best practices.

Common roles: IT Operations Managers and IT Support Managers.

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