Cloud Adoption Framework
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is designed to aid each area of an organisation so that all stakeholders understand how cloud adoption will change the way they work and how to take advantage of everything that cloud computing offers. The AWS CAF is organised into six perspectives; Business, People and Governance perspectives relate to business capabilities while Platform, Security and Operations perspectives relate to technical capabilities.
Business Perspective
This perspective is concerned with optimising business value as operations are transitioned to the cloud. This involves a shift from separate strategies for IT and business to an integrated and agile strategy. The business perspective can be used to prioritise cloud adoption initiatives and to ensure that there is a strong alignment between business goals and IT goals.
People Perspective
The people perspective is used to give guidance to those responsible for training and communications. This can help teams learn how to prepare for cloud adoption by updating their staff skills and organisational processes and ensure that competencies are in place at the appropriate time. The people perspective can also be used to help leadership communicate cloud changes to the organisation.
Governance Perspective
The governance perspective is used to give guidance to the stakeholders responsible for supporting business processes with technology. This focuses on how to maximise the business value and minimise the risks of cloud investment by aligning IT strategy with the organisation’s business strategy and goals.
Platform Perspective
This perspective is concerned with the architecture of AWS technology and how it can be designed and optimised. This helps design, implement and optimise the architecture of AWS technology based on business goals and objectives. The platform perspective can also be utilised to communicate the structure and design of cloud architectures to stakeholders.
Security Perspective
The security perspective is used to help decide on and implement security controls for cloud architecture. It can ease the process of identifying areas of non-compliance and planning security initiatives.
Operations Perspective
The operations perspective involves how IT workload are managed, run and recovered in a way that meets the requirements of business stakeholders. This perspective also helps stakeholders understand the move towards operating using agile cloud computing practices as well as defining new process changes and training needed for successful cloud adoption.
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