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# AWS CAF

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

* Helps you build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation through the innovative use of AWS
* Created by AWS Professionals by taking advantage of AWS Best Practices and lessons learned from 1000s of customers
* AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations
* AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations

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### Business Capabilities

• <mark style="color:yellow;">Business Perspective</mark> helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.

• <mark style="color:yellow;">People Perspective</mark> serves as a bridge between technology and business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations more rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth, and learning, and where change becomes business-as-normal, with a focus on culture, organizational structure, leadership, and workforce.

• <mark style="color:yellow;">Governance Perspective</mark> helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.

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### Technical Capabilities

• <mark style="color:yellow;">Platform Perspective</mark> helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform; modernize existing workloads; and implement new cloud-native solutions.

• <mark style="color:yellow;">Security Perspective</mark> helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.

• <mark style="color:yellow;">Operations Perspective</mark> helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.

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### Cloud transformation value chain

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### Transformation Domains

* **Technology** - using the cloud to migrate and modernize legacy infrastructure, applications, data, and analytics platforms...
* **Process** - digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
  * leveraging new data and analytics platforms to create actionable insights
  * using machine learning (ML) to improve your customer service experience...
* **Organization** - Reimagining your operating model
  * Organizing your teams around products and value streams
  * Leveraging agile methods to rapidly iterate and evolve
* **Product** – reimagining your business model by creating new value propositions (products & services) and revenue models

### Transformation Phases

* **Envision** – demonstrate how the Cloud will accelerate business outcomes by identifying transformation opportunities and create a foundation for your digital transformation
* **Align** – identify capability gaps across the 6 AWS CAF Perspectives which results in an Action Plan
* **Launch** – build and deliver pilot initiatives in production and demonstrate incremental business value
* **Scale** – expand pilot initiatives to the desired scale while realizing the desired business benefits