Create an action plan using the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

A translation of the article was prepared specifically for students of the Cloud Solution Architecture course.


Source: aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF
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AWS CAF action plans help you get ready for your transition to the cloud technology stack. The journey begins with your leadership team looking at six aspects of CAF. Each of the aspects is used to create workflows that find gaps in existing skills and processes, and they are already recorded as input. This input is the foundation for creating an AWS CAF action plan that will drive change when your organization moves to the cloud technology stack.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Action Plan Overview

The action plan is a key part of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF). The process of developing an action plan helps identify the challenges and challenges posed by the adoption of cloud technology. Once created, an action plan will provide your organization with proactive solutions and help avoid mistakes when moving to a cloud infrastructure.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and its aspects

Successful transitions to cloud infrastructure determine which organizational skills need to be pulled up and which ones to learn. AWS CAF supports and guides your organization, provided you create an effective cloud adoption plan to address your gaps. It provides guidance on six key areas common to organizations: the business component, people, management, platform, security, and operations. Each aspect is organized according to a specific audience and roles:

General Business Aspects: business managers, financial managers, budget managers, strategic stakeholders.

General roles of the personnel aspect: HR management, service managers, HR managers.

General roles of the management aspect: Managing Director, Heads of Departments, Project Managers, System Architects, Business Intelligence, Investment Managers.

Common platform aspect roles: Chief Technical Officer, IT Managers, Solution Architects.

Common Security Aspect Roles: Director of Information Security, Information Security Managers, Information Security Analysts.

Common Operational Roles: executive IT managers, IT support managers.

For example, the business aspect helps business managers, financial managers, budget managers, and strategic stakeholders understand how certain aspects of their roles in the organization will change as a result of the adoption of cloud technologies.

The action plan you create is based on six aspects.

Each aspect of AWS CAF contains capabilities that belong to one or more functionally involved stakeholders. As you consider each aspect, you begin to determine how stakeholders will improve skills and processes for the successful implementation of cloud infrastructure. This happens in four stages:

  • Determine who in your organization is critical to the adoption of cloud technology;
  • Identify issues and problems that may slow down or hinder the implementation of cloud technologies for stakeholders;
  • Identify skills or processes that need to be improved to address these issues and problems;
  • Create an action plan to address identified gaps in skills or processes.

Here is an example of a completed action plan:

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