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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

Accelerating your cloud-powered digital business transformation

Overview

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations. These capabilities provide best practice guidance that helps you improve your cloud readiness. AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. Each perspective comprises a set of capabilities that functionally related stakeholders own or manage in the cloud transformation journey. Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap.

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Capabilities and perspectives

AWS cloud readiness assessment

Assess your organization’s readiness for cloud-powered digital business transformation. Use this assessment to evaluate your cloud readiness and identify gaps and opportunities against 47 AWS CAF capabilities, across six perspectives.

Assess your cloud readiness

Benefits

Envision

Identify and prioritize transformation opportunities in line with your strategic objectives. Associating your transformation initiatives with key stakeholders and measurable business outcomes will help you demonstrate value as you progress through your transformation journey.

Align

Identify capability gaps and cross-organizational dependencies. Doing so will help you create strategies for improving your cloud readiness, ensure stakeholder alignment, and facilitate relevant organizational change management activities.

Launch

Deliver pilots in production and demonstrate incremental business value. Pilots should be highly impactful and when successful they will influence future direction. Learning from pilots will help you adjust your approach before scaling to full production.

Scale

Expand pilots and business value to desired scale and ensure that the business benefits associated with your cloud investments are realized and sustained.

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