Cloud Governance Flashcards
What are the stages of the Cloud Adoption Framework?
Define your strategy.
Make a plan.
Ready your organization.
Adopt the cloud.
Govern and manage your cloud environments.
Within the Cloud Adoption Framework, what is needed to define your strategy?
Define and document your motivations: Meeting with stakeholders and leadership can help you answer why you’re moving to the cloud.
Document business outcomes: Meet with leadership from your finance, marketing, sales, and human resource groups to help you document your goals.
Evaluate financial considerations: Measure objectives and identify the return expected from a specific investment.
Understand technical considerations: Evaluate those technical considerations through the selection and completion of your first technical project.
Within the Cloud Adoption Framework, what is needed to make a plan?
Digital estate: Create an inventory of the existing digital assets and workloads that you plan to migrate to the cloud.
Initial organizational alignment: Ensure that the right people are involved in your migration efforts, both from a technical standpoint as well as from a cloud governance standpoint.
Skills readiness plan: Build a plan that helps individuals build the skills they need to operate in the cloud.
Cloud adoption plan: Build a comprehensive plan that brings together the development, operations, and business teams toward a shared cloud adoption goal.
Within the Cloud Adoption Framework, what is needed to Ready your Organization?
Azure setup guide: Review the Azure setup guide to become familiar with the tools and approaches you need to use to create a landing zone.
Azure landing zone: Begin to build out the Azure subscriptions that support each of the major areas of your business. A landing zone includes cloud infrastructure as well as governance, accounting, and security capabilities.
Expand the landing zone: Refine your landing zone to ensure that it meets your operations, governance, and security needs.
Best practices: Start with recommended and proven practices to help ensure that your cloud migration efforts are scalable and maintainable.
Within the Cloud Adoption Framework, what is needed to adopt the cloud?
The Cloud Adoption Framework breaks this stage into two parts: migrate and innovate.
Migrate: Here are the steps in the migrate part of this stage.
Migrate your first workload: Use the Azure migration guide to deploy your first project to the cloud.
Migration scenarios: Use additional in-depth guides to explore more complex migration scenarios.
Best practices: Check in with the Azure cloud migration best practices checklist to verify that you’re following recommended practices.
Process improvements: Identify ways to make the migration process scale while requiring less effort.
Innovate: Here are the steps in the innovate part of this stage.
Business value consensus: Verify that investments in new innovations add value to the business and meet customer needs.
Azure innovation guide: Use this guide to accelerate development and build a minimum viable product (MVP) for your idea.
Best practices: Verify that your progress maps to recommended practices before you move forward.
Feedback loops: Check in frequently with your customers to verify that you’re building what they need.
Within the Cloud Adoption Framework, what is needed to Govern and Manage?
Govern: Here are the steps in the govern part of this stage.
Methodology: Consider your end state solution. Then define a methodology that incrementally takes you from your first steps all the way to full cloud governance.
Benchmark: Use the governance benchmark tool to assess your current state and future state to establish a vision for applying the framework.
Initial governance foundation: Create an MVP that captures the first steps of your governance plan.
Improve the initial governance foundation: Iteratively add governance controls that address tangible risks as you progress toward your end state solution.
Manage: Here are the steps in the manage part of this stage.
Establish a management baseline: Define your minimum commitment to operations management. A management baseline is the minimum set of tools and processes that should be applied to every asset in an environment.
Define business commitments: Document supported workloads to establish operational commitments with the business and agree on cloud management investments for each workload.
Expand the management baseline: Apply recommended best practices to iterate on your initial management baseline.
Advanced operations and design principles: For workloads that require a higher level of business commitment, perform a deeper architecture review to deliver on your resiliency and reliability commitments.
