The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

The CAF is a collection of proven tools and documentation, including best practices, reference architectures, and implementation guidance. This allows business and technology strategies to be aligned so that they accelerate cloud adoption in a controlled and governed manner. The focus for this content is the cloud architect, who is the conduit for discussions and activity between the business and operations teams, and acts as the thought leader for the organization.

The CAF provides various methodologies, as per the following diagram:

Figure 9.6 – Azure CAF methodologies

Let's look at these in more detail:

• Strategy: Define justification and outcomes.
• Plan: Align business outcomes to actionable adoption plans.
• Ready: Preparation of the cloud environment.
• Migrate: Existing workloads move and are modernized.
• Innovate: New workload development using cloud-native or hybrid solutions.
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