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Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Accelerate your cloud adoption journey with proven guidance from Microsoft
Overview

Guidance and tools to help you get started

Get started with Azure landing zones and assess your cloud environment
  • The Cloud Adoption Framework is proven guidance that’s designed to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for your organization to succeed in the cloud. It provides best practices, documentation, and tools that cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers need to successfully achieve their short- and long-term objectives. By following Cloud Adoption Framework best practices, organizations more effectively align their business and technical strategies to ensure success.
  • Address the deployment and operations needs of your cloud portfolio through scalable, modular implementation options to build out your cloud environment.
    Diagram outlining the components of Azure landing zones, including IAM, management, monitoring, applications
  • Begin the cloud adoption process by reviewing your Azure platform readiness. Assess your plan to create a landing zone that will host the workloads that you build in the cloud or migrate to the cloud.
  • Get help constructing and operating Azure landing zones at scale with a proven architectural approach and implementation guidance.
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Features

Adopt the cloud with confidence

Achieve your business goals

Get expert guidance as you plan and execute organizational and technical changes while mitigating risks.

Manage organizational changes

Find sustainable ways for your organization to embrace cloud technology.

Adopt technologies for business growth

Discover and learn to implement secure cloud technologies that scale to grow with your business.

Enhance security

Capture risks, plan controls, set your security baseline, and operate safely with proven guidance.

Establish governance and optimize costs

Establish budgets, monitor cost allocation patterns, set policies, and implement controls to optimize your cloud spending and deployment.

FAQ

  • Although the cloud isn’t new, the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure creates new business management and technology opportunities. It provides tools and guidance for implementing cloud technologies and business and processes changes that empower organizations to adopt Azure with confidence and control. Based on best practices and successful customer and partner experiences, the framework is regularly updated to stay current.
  • The Cloud Adoption Framework is available worldwide.
  • Cloud adoption is a companywide decision, so the Cloud Adoption Framework is designed to support IT administrators, cloud architects, and business decision makers across your organization.
  • Each organization’s cloud adoption journey is unique, with no one-size-fits-all approach. However, most journeys share common steps, which the Cloud Adoption Framework addresses in a modular format, allowing you to begin wherever you are in the process. Use the Cloud Journey Tracker assessment to pinpoint your organization’s path or connect with a partner to help you get started.
  • Assessments let you quickly identify the best approach to cloud adoption for your organization. They provide recommendations based on your needs and anyone in your organization can review them at their convenience. In addition to pinpointing your cloud adoption needs, these assessments help you define your governance benchmark and evaluate your workloads.
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Next steps

Accelerate your cloud adoption journey

Evaluate your business strategies and receive curated guidance from Microsoft Assessments.
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