Distinguishing between the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework

As we saw in the previous chapter, Microsoft is famous for its frameworks and acronyms. The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is one of these frameworks and is a close relative of the WAF since they both are designed for Microsoft Azure. We have included this chapter in this book because people often get confused between the Cloud Adoption Framework and the WAF. Although they have different names, the connection between them and the appropriate usage often present a dilemma. Moving forward, we will use the acronym CAF for the Cloud Adoption Framework, just as we used WAF for Well-Architected Framework.

In Chapter 1, Planning Workloads with the Well-Architected Framework, we introduced the framework and then discussed its pillars and elements. We will take a similar approach for this chapter as well; we will start by introducing the CAF, followed by discussing its methodologies. In addition, we will compare...