AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Flashcards
AWS CAF
• Helps you build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation through innovative use of AWS
• Created by AWS Professionals by taking advantage of AWS Best Practices and lessons learned from 1000s of customers
• AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities
that underpin successful cloud transformations
• AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives:
Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations
CAF Perspectives and Foundational Capabilities
Business Capabilities
- Business Perspective helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.
- People Perspective serves as a bridge between technology and business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations more rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth, learning, and where change becomes business-as-normal, with focus on culture, organizational structure, leadership, and workforce.
- Governance Perspective helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.
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* Business: Strategy Management, Portfolio Management, Innovation Management, Product Management, Strategic Partership, Data monetization, Business Insight, Data Science
* People: Culture Evolution, Trasnformational Leadership, Cloud Fluency, Workforce Transformation, Change Acceleration, Organization Design, Organizational Alignment
* Governance: Program and Project Management, Benefits Management, Risk Management, Cloud Financial Management, Application Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Data Curation
CAF Perspectives and Foundational Capabilities
Technical Capabilities
- Platform Perspective helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform; modernize existing workloads; and implement new cloud-native solutions.
- Security Perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your data and cloud workloads.
- Operations Perspective helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.
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* Platform: Platform Arhitecture, Data Arhitecture, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Provisioning and Orchestration, Modern Application Development, Continuos Integration and Continuos Delivery
* Security: Security Governance, Security Assurance, Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection, Vulnerability Management, InfrastructuIre Protection, Data Protection, Application Security, Incident Response
* Operations: Observability, Event Management (AIOps), Incident and Problem Management, Change and Release Management, Performance and Capacity Management, Configuration Management, Patch Management, Availability and Continuity Management, Application Management
AWS CAF –Transformation Domains
- Technology - using the cloud to migrate and modernize legacy infrastructure, applications, data and analytics platforms…
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Process - digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
* leveraging new data and analytics platforms to create actionable insights
* using machine learning (ML) to improve your customer service experience… -
Organization - Reimagining your operating model
* Organizing your teams around products and value streams
* Leveraging agile methods to rapidly iterate and evolve - Product – reimagining your business model by creating new value propositions (products & services) and revenue models
AWS CAF –Transformation Phases
- Envision – demonstrate how the Cloud will accelerate business outcomes by identifying transformation opportunities and create a foundation for your digital transformation
- Align – identify capability gaps across the 6 AWS CAF Perspectives which results in an Action Plan
- Launch – build and deliver pilot initiatives in production and demonstrate incremental business value
- Scale – expand pilot initiatives to the desired scale while realizing the desired business benefits
AWS Right Sizing
- EC2 has many instance types, but choosing the most powerful instance type isn’t the best choice, because the cloud is elastic
- Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
- Scaling up is easy so always start small
- It’s also the process of looking at deployed instances and identifying opportunities to eliminate or downsize without compromising capacity or other requirements, which results in lower costs
- It’s important to Right Size…
* before a Cloud Migration
* continuously after the cloud onboarding process (requirements change over time) - CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, 3rd party tools can help
AWS Marketplace
- Digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (3rd party)
- Example:
* Custom AMI (custom OS, firewalls, technical solutions…)
* CloudFormation templates
* Software as a Service
* Containers - If you buy through the AWS Marketplace, it goes into your AWS bill
- You can sell your own solutions on the AWS Marketplace
AWS Professional Services & Partner Network
- The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts
- They work alongside your team and a chosen member of the APN
- APN = AWS Partner Network
- APN Technology Partners: providing hardware, connectivity, and software
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APN Consulting Partners: professional services firm to help build on AWS
*APN Training Partners: find who can help you learn AWS - AWS Competency Program: AWS Competencies are granted to APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas.
- AWS Navigate Program: help Partners become better Partner
AWS Knowledge Center
- Contains the most frequent & common questions and requests
AWS IQ
- Quickly find professional help for your AWS projects
- Engage and pay AWS Certified 3rd party experts for on-demand project work
- Video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, integrated billing
- For Customers:
Submit Request - describe your project
Review Responses -Connect to experts (requirements & timelines)
Select Expert - Based on rates,experience, …
Work Securely - Give experts appropriate access to your AWS account
Pay per Milestone - Charges added into your AWS Bill - For Experts:
Create Profile - Photo, bio, certs, …
Connect with Customers
Start a Proposal - work description, price, milestones, …
Work Securely - Get appropriate access to customers AWS account
Get Paid - Request payment after milestones are met
AWS re:Post
- AWS-managed Q&A service offering crowd-sourced, expert-reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS Forums
- Part of the AWS Free Tier
- Community members can earn reputation points to build up their community expert status by providing accepted answers and reviewing answers from other users
- Questions from AWS Premium Support customers that do not receive a response from the community are passed on to AWS Support engineers
- AWS re:Post is not intended to be used for questions that are time-sensitive or involve any proprietary information
AWS Managed Services (AMS)
- Provides infrastructure and application support on AWS.
- AMS offers a team of AWS experts who manage and operate your infrastructure for security, reliability, and availability
- Helps organizations offload routine management tasks and focus on their business objectives.
- Fully managed service, so AWS handles common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services
- Implements best practices and maintains your AWS infrastructure to reduce your operational overhead and risk
- AMS business hours are 24/365
