[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cheat-sheet---en":3,"domain-info---en":3,"topic-info----en":3,"next-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-cloud-concepts-cloud-migration-cloud-adoption-framework-en":4,"lesson-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-cloud-concepts-cloud-migration-cloud-adoption-framework-en":18,"prev-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-cloud-concepts-cloud-migration-cloud-adoption-framework-en":358},null,{"locked":5,"reason":6,"meta":7,"item":3},true,"paywall",{"title":8,"description":9,"isFree":10,"estimatedMinutes":11,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":13},"The 7 Rs Migration Strategies","Learn the seven strategies AWS uses to move applications to the cloud, what each one means, and how to match a workload to the right approach.",false,16,"beginner",[14,15,16,17],"List the seven migration strategies known as the 7 Rs","Explain what each strategy means and when to use it","Match a migration scenario to the right strategy","Compare the strategies by how much application change each one requires",{"locked":10,"reason":3,"meta":19,"item":28},{"title":20,"description":21,"isFree":5,"estimatedMinutes":22,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":23},"The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)","Learn what the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework is, the six perspectives it organizes work into, and the phases that guide an organization's move to the cloud.",15,[24,25,26,27],"Explain the purpose of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework","Identify the six AWS CAF perspectives and what each one covers","Distinguish the business-focused perspectives from the technical perspectives","Describe the four phases of a cloud transformation",{"id":29,"title":20,"body":30,"description":21,"difficulty":12,"estimatedMinutes":22,"extension":289,"infographics":290,"isFree":5,"learningObjectives":312,"meta":313,"navigation":5,"path":314,"quiz":315,"seo":355,"stem":356,"__hash__":357},"courses/courses/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/en/domains/01-cloud-concepts/03-cloud-migration/01-cloud-adoption-framework.md",{"type":31,"value":32,"toc":278},"minimark",[33,38,42,45,48,52,55,60,149,152,156,159,162,165,168,172,175,191,194,198,201,205,251,254,258],[34,35,37],"h2",{"id":36},"why-a-framework-for-moving-to-the-cloud","Why a framework for moving to the cloud",[39,40,41],"p",{},"Moving to the cloud is more than a technical project. It touches your budget, your teams, your security posture, and the way your organization makes decisions. A move that focuses only on servers and ignores skills, governance, and cost usually stalls.",[39,43,44],{},"The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is AWS guidance for planning and managing that move. It is not a tool you install or a service you turn on. It is a set of best practices that breaks a large, messy transformation into clear areas of work, so different teams know what they own and in what order to tackle it.",[39,46,47],{},"CAF helps you measure your cloud readiness, find the gaps that would slow you down, and build a plan to close them. Think of it as a checklist for the whole organization, not just the IT department.",[34,49,51],{"id":50},"the-six-aws-caf-perspectives","The six AWS CAF perspectives",[39,53,54],{},"CAF groups its guidance into six perspectives. Each perspective is a set of related capabilities that a particular group of stakeholders owns during the move to the cloud.",[56,57],"infographic",{"alt":58,"slug":59},"A grid of the six AWS CAF perspectives, with Business, People, and Governance grouped as business-focused and Platform, Security, and Operations grouped as technical.","caf-six-perspectives",[61,62,63,79],"table",{},[64,65,66],"thead",{},[67,68,69,73,76],"tr",{},[70,71,72],"th",{},"Perspective",[70,74,75],{},"What it covers",[70,77,78],{},"Typical stakeholders",[80,81,82,94,105,116,127,138],"tbody",{},[67,83,84,88,91],{},[85,86,87],"td",{},"Business",[85,89,90],{},"Makes sure cloud spending supports real business outcomes",[85,92,93],{},"CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO",[67,95,96,99,102],{},[85,97,98],{},"People",[85,100,101],{},"Culture, skills, leadership, and workforce change",[85,103,104],{},"CIO, COO, HR and team leaders",[67,106,107,110,113],{},[85,108,109],{},"Governance",[85,111,112],{},"Managing cloud initiatives, benefits, and risk",[85,114,115],{},"CIO, CTO, CFO, chief risk officer",[67,117,118,121,124],{},[85,119,120],{},"Platform",[85,122,123],{},"Building a scalable cloud environment and modernizing workloads",[85,125,126],{},"CTO, architects, engineers",[67,128,129,132,135],{},[85,130,131],{},"Security",[85,133,134],{},"Confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and workloads",[85,136,137],{},"CISO, security architects",[67,139,140,143,146],{},[85,141,142],{},"Operations",[85,144,145],{},"Running cloud services at the level the business needs",[85,147,148],{},"Operations leaders, site reliability engineers",[39,150,151],{},"A simple way to remember them: think of the phrase \"the People of a Business need Governance, and they run on a Platform with Security and Operations.\"",[34,153,155],{"id":154},"business-focused-versus-technical-perspectives","Business-focused versus technical perspectives",[39,157,158],{},"The six perspectives split into two natural groups.",[39,160,161],{},"Business, People, and Governance are the business-focused perspectives. They deal with strategy, culture, and oversight. These are the areas that decide whether the cloud effort has the right goals, the right skills, and the right controls behind it.",[39,163,164],{},"Platform, Security, and Operations are the technical perspectives. They build and run the actual cloud environment, protect it, and keep it healthy. This is the hands-on engineering side of the move.",[39,166,167],{},"Knowing which group a perspective belongs to is often enough to answer an exam question. If a scenario is about budgets, culture, or risk, it points to the business group. If it is about building, securing, or operating systems, it points to the technical group.",[34,169,171],{"id":170},"the-four-transformation-domains","The four transformation domains",[39,173,174],{},"CAF also describes four domains that a successful transformation must involve. These are the parts of your organization that change as you adopt the cloud.",[176,177,178,182,185,188],"ul",{},[179,180,181],"li",{},"Technology: the systems, applications, and infrastructure you migrate or build.",[179,183,184],{},"Process: how work gets done, including the practices your teams follow.",[179,186,187],{},"Organization: how teams are structured and how they work together.",[179,189,190],{},"Product: the services and offerings you deliver to customers.",[39,192,193],{},"The point is that a real transformation changes more than technology. Your processes, your team structures, and even your products evolve as you take advantage of the cloud.",[34,195,197],{"id":196},"the-four-phases-of-cloud-transformation","The four phases of cloud transformation",[39,199,200],{},"CAF lays out the work as four phases that repeat as you learn. You move through them step by step rather than trying to do everything at once.",[56,202],{"alt":203,"slug":204},"A left-to-right timeline of the four AWS CAF cloud transformation phases in order: Envision, Align, Launch, and Scale.","caf-transformation-phases",[61,206,207,217],{},[64,208,209],{},[67,210,211,214],{},[70,212,213],{},"Phase",[70,215,216],{},"Focus",[80,218,219,227,235,243],{},[67,220,221,224],{},[85,222,223],{},"Envision",[85,225,226],{},"Identify and prioritize the cloud opportunities that match your business goals",[67,228,229,232],{},[85,230,231],{},"Align",[85,233,234],{},"Find capability gaps across the six perspectives and get stakeholders on the same page",[67,236,237,240],{},[85,238,239],{},"Launch",[85,241,242],{},"Deliver pilot projects in production and show early, real value",[67,244,245,248],{},[85,246,247],{},"Scale",[85,249,250],{},"Expand the successful pilots to full production scale and lock in the benefits",[39,252,253],{},"The order matters. You picture the target state first, line up the people and capabilities to get there, prove the idea with small pilots, then grow what works. Each pass teaches you something you use to adjust the plan.",[34,255,257],{"id":256},"exam-tips","Exam tips",[176,259,260,263,266,269,272,275],{},[179,261,262],{},"AWS CAF is guidance for planning a cloud move, not a service or a tool.",[179,264,265],{},"Memorize the six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, Operations.",[179,267,268],{},"Business, People, and Governance are business-focused; Platform, Security, and Operations are technical.",[179,270,271],{},"The Security perspective is about confidentiality, integrity, and availability; the People perspective is about skills and culture.",[179,273,274],{},"The four phases run in order: Envision, Align, Launch, Scale.",[179,276,277],{},"Do not confuse CAF (planning the organization's move) with the Well-Architected Framework (designing a single workload).",{"title":279,"searchDepth":280,"depth":280,"links":281},"",3,[282,284,285,286,287,288],{"id":36,"depth":283,"text":37},2,{"id":50,"depth":283,"text":51},{"id":154,"depth":283,"text":155},{"id":170,"depth":283,"text":171},{"id":196,"depth":283,"text":197},{"id":256,"depth":283,"text":257},"md",[291,304],{"slug":59,"concept":292,"style":293,"aspectRatio":294,"labels":295},"Two groups of three cards show the six AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspectives: Business, People, and Governance under a Business-focused header on one side, and Platform, Security, and Operations under a Technical header on the other. Each card pairs a simple icon with the perspective name and its short focus line from the lesson, such as culture and skills for People. The dividing line between the two groups carries the single orange accent, because the 3-vs-3 split is the fact the exam tests. The viewer should walk away able to sort any perspective into the right group at a glance.","icon-set","16:9",[296,297,298,299,300,301,302,303],"Business-focused","Technical","Business: cloud spend to outcomes","People: culture and skills","Governance: manage risk and benefits","Platform: build the cloud environment","Security: confidentiality integrity availability","Operations: run services at the needed level",{"slug":204,"concept":305,"style":306,"aspectRatio":294,"labels":307},"A directed left-to-right sequence of four connected phase blocks shows the AWS CAF cloud transformation journey in its fixed order: Envision, Align, Launch, Scale. Each block names the phase and its one-line focus from the lesson, with arrows carrying the eye from one phase to the next. The connecting arrows take the single orange accent to stress that the ordering itself is the exam-tested fact. 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It helps organizations build a cloud readiness plan by grouping the work into perspectives and capabilities. Provisioning, workload design, and cost estimating are handled by other AWS tools and frameworks.",{"question":328,"type":329,"options":330,"correctAnswers":331,"explanation":332},"Which three AWS CAF perspectives are mainly business-focused rather than technical?","multiple",[87,98,109,120,142],[87,98,109],"Business, People, and Governance focus on strategy, culture, and managing risk. Platform, Security, and Operations are the technical perspectives that build and run the cloud environment.",{"question":334,"type":320,"options":335,"correctAnswer":131,"explanation":336},"Which AWS CAF perspective focuses on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and workloads?",[109,142,131,120],"The Security perspective covers protecting data and workloads, and its stakeholders include the CISO and security engineers. 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You picture the target state, close capability gaps, deliver pilots in production, then expand what works to full scale.",{"title":20,"description":21},"courses/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/en/domains/01-cloud-concepts/03-cloud-migration/01-cloud-adoption-framework","MAbzP58kV5jd-jbUcfD2cSt5lM4iYrsDKZokYk02HLc",{"locked":5,"reason":6,"meta":359,"item":3},{"title":360,"description":361,"isFree":10,"estimatedMinutes":11,"difficulty":12,"learningObjectives":362},"The Six Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework","Learn the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, what each one focuses on, and how to match a business scenario to the right pillar on the exam.",[363,364,365,366],"Name the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework","Explain the central focus of each pillar","Match a business scenario to the pillar it belongs to","Distinguish between similar pillars, such as reliability and performance efficiency"]