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
- 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-term 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.
- 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.
- The Cloud Adoption Strategy Evaluator will provide you with a framework to understand different areas needed when building your cloud strategy and business case and guide you to actionable next steps.
- Find the best apps and data modernization strategy for you. Accelerate time to market and deliver innovative customer experiences with an accurate assessment of your internal-facing and external-facing apps.
- Use the Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool to understand your organization’s preparedness to implement a cloud migration solution at scale.
- Use this assessment to help you identify gaps in your organization’s current state of governance. Get a personalized benchmark report and curated guidance on how to get started.
Features
Adoption scenarios based on the Cloud Adoption Framework
Get adoption guidance tailored for your chosen technology
Obtain expert guidance as you plan and execute organizational and technical changes while mitigating risks. Learn and benefit from a repository of successful cloud adoption scenarios and best practices.
Discover best practices for AI Adoption
Learn how to adopt and maintain AI with this roadmap for startups and enterprises.
Enable rapid innovation with a modern application platform
Prepare for Kubernetes and container integration into centralized operations and your broader cloud strategy.
Enhance security
Capture risks, plan controls, set your security baseline, and operate safely with proven guidance.
Establish governance and optimize costs
Determine budgets, monitor cost allocation patterns, set policies, and implement controls to optimize your cloud spending and deployment.
The cloud adoption journey
There's no single cloud adoption path that works for every organization, but the main implementation stages of a secure methodology are similar for all organizations and industries.
Maximize your cloud value with Azure Essentials
Improve the reliability, security, and performance of your cloud and AI investments.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are accelerating their cloud adoption journey
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
Next steps
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