Cloud adoption framework AWS enables companies to deploy, control and configure IT workloads and services on a high-end platform that provides pay-as-you go pricing. It also helps companies develop and implement a hybrid-cloud strategy. It also improves security by allowing organizations to control their applications and data in a highly secure environment that has high availability. It also reduces the risk to business by providing a secure, reliable and an scalable infrastructure for mission-critical information.
Each organization’s journey to the cloud is unique, but there are certain common elements that should be considered. This includes defining a goal state, understanding cloud readiness and identifying the opportunities for digital transformation and prioritizing them, and iteratively establishing your transformation plan. It is also important to use a tool that allows you to pinpoint the capabilities that will help you meet your business goals and objectives.
AWS CAF offers a complete set of perspectives based upon the best practices to assist you in digitally transforming and improve your business results. Each perspective offers best-practice advice and helps you create an action plan that meets your business’s specific requirements.
The People Perspective provides guidance to any stakeholder who is responsible for people development and communications. It is focused on ways that stakeholders can update organizational process and staffing skills to aid in cloud adoption. The Operations Perspective examines the ways that stakeholders can establish and maintain a cloud-based infrastructure that will meet your business governance needs.
The launch phase focuses on delivering pilot projects in production to demonstrate greater value for business and help determine future course of action. It also involves the creation of a detailed migration map, with realistic ROI estimates.