The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
AWS CAF provides guidance and best practices to help organizations build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across the organization and throughout the IT lifecycle to accelerate successful cloud adoption.
AWS CAF is organized into six perspectives and perspectives consist of sets of capabilities.
Focused on Business Capabilities
- Business - IT is aligned with business needs
- IT Finance
- IT Strategy
- Benefits Realization
- Business Risk Management
- People - training, staffing, and organizational changes
- Resource Management
- Incentive Management
- Career Management
- Training Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Governance - skills and processes align IT and business strategies and goals
- Portfolio Management
- Program Project Management
- Business Performance Measurement
- License Management
Focused on Technical Capabilities
- Platform - describe the architecture of the target state environment in detail
- Compute Provisioning
- Network Provisioning
- Storage Provisioning
- Database Provisioning
- Systems and Solution Architechture
- Application Development
- Security - the organization meets its security objectives
- Identity and Access Management
- Detective Control
- Infrastructure Security
- Data Protection
- Incident Response
- Operations - define how daily, quarterly, and yearly business will be conducted
- Service Monitoring
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Resource Inventory Management
- Release Management / Change Management
- Reporting and Analytics
- Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
- IT Service Catalog