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

Business Capabilities

• Business Perspective helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.

• People Perspective 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.

• Governance Perspective helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.

Technical Capabilities

• Platform Perspective helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform; modernize existing workloads; and implement new cloud-native solutions.

• Security Perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.

• Operations Perspective helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.

Cloud transformation value chain

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