Cloud migration projects are very common these days. But not every Cloud migration project is a success story. Unfortunately, we can't specify a single approach to govern them all as every such project is unique.
Lack of proper strategy, planning, and execution results in low performing cloud workloads and will not achieve promised ROI to the business.
That's where the Cloud Adoption Framework can assist you!!
Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is a collection of documentation, best practices, and tools to guide cloud adoption for any organization.
Following are the core pillars of CAF where it has its content categorized
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Let's see what we can expect from each pillar
- CAF provides us with ample resources to define the cloud migration strategy. It assists us to pick relevant patterns and antipatterns
- Next, it provides us guidance on how to properly plan the exercise. One example is the skills readiness plan which allows us to assess our organizations on the current skill levels and gaps
- Next, we can dive into the planning section, which allows architects to properly design the desired cloud environment by defining relevant landing zones
- Finally, CAF assists us in iteratively migrating workloads into the cloud. It provides best practices guidelines and scenarios to comfort us
- After the migration, CAF assists us with content on how to govern the cloud and properly operate our cloud workloads
You can access all from this location
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Apart from cool documentation, It provides some actionable resources like
You can see the complete list of actionable tools and templates from this location.
I hope this helps in your cloud migration!!