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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

  • AWS CAF provides guidance and best practices to help organizations build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across the organization and throughout the IT lifecycle to accelerate successful cloud adoption.

  • It is divided into 6 perspectives:

    • Business
    • People
    • Governance
    • Platform
    • Security
    • Operations
  • Perspectives consists of sets of capabilities.


  1. Business Perspective:

    • IT Finance
    • IT strategy
    • Benefits realization
    • Business risk management
  2. Peoples Perspective:

    • Resource management
    • Incentive management
    • Career management
    • Training management
    • Organizational change management
  3. Governance Perspective:

    • Portfolio management
    • Program and project management
    • Business performance measurement
    • License management
  4. Platform Perspective:

    • Compute provisioning
    • Network provisioning
    • Storage provisioning
    • Database provisioning
    • Systems and solution architecture
    • Application development
  5. Security Perspective:

    • Identity and access management
    • Detective control
    • Infrastructure security
    • Data protection
    • Incident response
  6. Operations Perspective:

    • Service monitoring
    • Application performance monitoring
    • Resource inventory management
    • Release management/change management
    • Reporting and analytics
    • Business continuity/
    • Disaster recovery
    • IT service catalog