AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) 2 – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation
Transformation domains are enabled by a set of foundational capabilities which provide best practice guidance that helps customers improve their cloud readiness (their ability to leverage the cloud to transform effectively digitally). 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 their cloud transformation journey.
- Business perspective helps ensure that customers’ cloud investments accelerate their digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.
- People’s perspective serves as a bridge between technology and business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations evolve to a culture of continuous growth, learning, and where change becomes business-as-normal, focusing on culture and organizational structure leadership, and workforce.
- The governance perspective helps customers orchestrate their cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.
- Platform perspective helps customers build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads, and implement new cloud-native solutions.
- Security perspective helps customers achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data and cloud workloads.
- The operations perspective helps ensure that cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of the business.
To help on the digital transformation journey through CAF, AWS facilitates envision workshop to produce an Envisioning visual scenario that connects business goals and outcomes to enabling technologies, identifies key measures, and helps you prioritize your cloud initiatives. Further, they conduct an alignment workshop within two weeks of the Envisioning workshop to produce an executable action plan that helps you mature your foundational capabilities and improve your cloud readiness. You can learn more about the AWS CAF framework by visiting their page – https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/. Each organization’s cloud journey is unique. To succeed in their transformations, customers must envision their desired target state, understand their cloud readiness, and adopt an agile approach to closing the gaps. However, now driving digital transformation through cloud adoption is not new, and it’s already been implemented by several organizations. So you don’t need to reinvent the when and take advantage of the learning offered by AWS.
Summary
In this chapter, you learned about various clouds computing models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. You dove deep into each model to understand their value proposition and how they can fit into your IT workload need. You then pivoted to understand how you can use to implement a digital transformation program and how to migrate to the cloud. You learned that not all cloud migration programs are created equal and that some companies use their migration to the cloud to implement further change in their organization. You also learned about cloud migration strategy and how AWS 7 R’s migration strategy helped you build a migration and modernization plan.Since processes will have to be retested anyway, why not take advantage of this change and implement ways to improve the company’s processes and business workflows?You also covered the drivers for a digital transformation and visited some examples of successful digital transformation. You saw some useful tips to ensure the success of your digital transformation and some pitfalls that should be avoided so that your transformation does not fail. You further learned how AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) could help you to accelerate and succussed in your digital transformation journey. In the next chapter, you will learn how you can use AWS global infrastructure to create business solutions that can help you with your digital transformation initiatives. You will go more into technology and learn about networking in AWS, a foundational pillar to starting your AWS technical journey.
