MS CAF

This guide to help you to get started with CAF and to find the one that best aligns with your current challenges.

Customers often experience cloud adoption antipatterns. These missteps commonly occur in design, planning, or implementation when migrating to the cloud. So here is a list of antipatterns that you have to take care before starting your Cloud Journey.

These steps help you document your business strategy efficiently. This approach helps you drive adoption efforts that capture targeted business value in a cross-functional model. Then, you can map your cloud adoption strategy to specific cloud capabilities. You can also map business strategies to reach your expected state of transformation.

Cloud adoption plans convert the aspirational goals of a cloud adoption strategy into an actionable plan. use the cloud adoption plan to guide your teams technical efforts and align them with your organization’s business strategy.

Before adoption can begin, you create a landing zone to host the workloads that you plan to build in or migrate to the cloud. This section of the framework guides you through environment preparation and landing zone creation.

The Adopt methodology shows you how to migrate, modernize, innovate, and relocate workloads in Azure.

People often follow similar steps when starting to use the cloud. Learning from others and knowing which tasks to move to the cloud first can make the process easier.

Deciding whether to first migrate (“rehost”) or update (“replatform”) an on-premises application can be challenging and depends on your goals. A short assessment has been developed to assist in determining the suitable path for your migration journey.

The Migrate methodology and its steps

Here’s an overview and starting point guidance for each phase of your modernization journey. Microsoft created a framework that guides you through the most efficient modernization processes.

The Innovate methodology in the Cloud Adoption Framework prioritizes swiftly creating customer-focused innovations. This guide presents a strategy for realizing the value of a minimum viable product (MVP).

The relocate guidance shows you how to set up a relocation project and relocate one or more workloads , where Relocation is the process of moving a workload or workload component in Azure to a different Azure region

The Secure methodology in the Cloud Adoption Framework provides a roadmap for evolving your security program, offering guidance and best practices derived from real-world experiences and collaborations with organizations like NIST and CIS. It presents a clear vision of the desired end state, informed by practical insights and partnerships.

This helps you develop the business and technical approaches needed to provide cloud management that powers ongoing operations.

The governance guide provides actionable Azure-specific and cloud-agnostic governance examples and helps formulate personalized governance solutions by offering detailed guidance on developing corporate policies and tools to manage various business needs across multiple public clouds.