Describing the cloud adoption framework
In this, we will learn and understand about cloud adoption framework.
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure consists of documentation, implementation guidance, best practices, and tools designed to help businesses to implement strategies necessary to succeed in the cloud. The Cloud Adoption Framework has been carefully designed based on cloud adoption best practices from Microsoft employees, customers, and partners. It provides a proven and consistent methodology for implementing cloud technologies.
Understand the lifecycle
Each of the following steps is part of the cloud adoption lifecycle.
- Firstly, Strategy: define business justification and expected outcomes of adoption.
- Secondly, Plan: align actionable adoption plans to business outcomes.
- Thirdly, Ready: Prepare the cloud environment for the planned changes.
- Adopt
- Firstly, Migrate: Migrate and modernize existing workloads.
- Then, Innovate: Develop new cloud-native or hybrid solutions.
- Next, Govern: Govern the environment and workloads.
- Lastly, Manage Operations management for cloud and hybrid solutions.
Intent
The cloud fundamentally changes how enterprises procure, use, and secure technology resources. Traditionally, enterprises assumed ownership of and responsibility for all aspects of technology, from infrastructure to software. By moving to the cloud, enterprises can provision and consume resources only when they’re needed. Although the cloud offers tremendous flexibility in design choices, enterprises need a proven and consistent methodology for adopting cloud technologies. The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure meets that need, helping guide decisions throughout cloud adoption.
Further, the Cloud Adoption Framework provides technical guidance for Microsoft Azure. Because enterprise customers might still be in the process of choosing a cloud vendor or might have an intentional multi-cloud strategy, the framework provides cloud-agnostic guidance for strategic decisions whenever possible.
Intended audience
This guidance affects the business, technology, and culture of enterprises. The affected roles include line-of-business leaders, business decision-makers, IT decision-makers, finance, enterprise administrators, IT operations, IT security and compliance, IT governance, workload development owners, and workload operations owners.
However, each section of the Cloud Adoption Framework represents a different specialization or variant of the cloud architect role. These sections also create opportunities to share cloud architecture responsibilities across a team of cloud architects. For example, the governance section is designed for cloud architects who have a passion for mitigating technical risks. Some cloud providers refer to these specialists as cloud custodians; we prefer the term cloud guardian or, collectively, the cloud governance team.
Reference: Microsoft Documentation