Cloud adoption framework Flashcards
What are the 6 areas of focus in the Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) called?
Perspectives
Name the 2 categories perspectives defined by the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) focus on?
Business capabilities
Technical capabilities
Name the 6 categories in the Cloud Adoption Framework
Business
People
Governance
Platform
Security
Operations
Ensures IT aligns with business needs.
Creates a strong business case for cloud adoption & prioritize cloud adoption initiatives.
. Which perspective is this?
Business
Example roles in the business perspective
Business/Finance managers
Budget owners
Strategy stakeholders
Develop organization-wide change management for successful cloud adoption.
Evaluate organizational structures and roles, new skill and process requirements, and identify gaps.
This helps prioritize training, staffing, and organizational changes.
Which perspective is this?
People
Example of people roles
HR / Staffing / people related roles
Maximise business value and MINIMIZE RISK
Ensure skills & processes align IT strategy with Business strategy
Understand how to update staff skills & processes to ensure business governance in the cloud.
Manage and measure cloud investments to evaluate business outcomes.
Which perspective is this?
Governance
Examples of governance perspective roles?
Chief Information Officer
Program managers
Enterprise architects
BAs
Portfolio managers
Principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.
Use a variety of architectural models to understand and communicate the structure of IT systems and their relationships. Describe the architecture of the target state environment in detail.
Which perspective is this?
Platform
Example of roles for platform perspective?
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
IT managers
Solutions architects
ensures that the organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility.
Use the AWS CAF to structure the selection and implementation of security controls that meet the organization’s needs.
Which perspective is this an example of?
Security perspective
Example roles Security perspective
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
IT security managers
IT security analysts
helps you to enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business STAKEHOLDERS
Which perspective is this?
Operations perspective
Example operations perspective roles?
IT operations managers
IT support managers
Name 6 migration strategies
Rehosting
Replatforming
Refactoring/re-architecting
Repurchasing
Retaining
Retiring
You want to move an app without any changes.
Which migration strategy would you adopt?
Rehosting
Example of when rehosting is used as migration strategy?
Large legacy migration that needs to scale quickly
You want to make a few small optimizations, but not change the core architecture.
Which migration strategy would you adopt?
Replatforming
You want to use cloud-native features to reimagine how an appl is architected and developed
Which migration strategy would you adopt?
Refactoring/re-architecting
When would you use refactoring/re-architecting migration strategy
to implement a business requirement that would be too difficult to implement in apps existing environment
You want to remove an app that is no longer needed?
What mirgation strategy is this?
Retiring
You want to keep an app that is critical for the business in the source environment.
What migration strategy should you adopt?
Retaining
Give an example of when you would use the retaining migration strategy?
An app needs major refactoring before it can be migrated,
Work that can be postponed until a later time
