Cloud Adoption Framework

Helps you build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation through innovative use of AWS
Created by AWS Professionals by taking advantage of AWS Best Practices and lessons learned from 1000s of customers
AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations
AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations

CAF Perspectives

helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.

serves as a bridge between technology and business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations more rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth, learning, and where change becomes business-as-normal, with focus on culture, organizational structure, leadership, and workforce.

helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.

helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform; modernize existing workloads; and implement new cloud-native solutions.

helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.

helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.

Platform Perspective helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform; modernize existing workloads; and implement new cloud-native solutions.
Security Perspective helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads.
Operations Perspective helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business.

Technology - using the cloud to migrate and modernize legacy infrastructure, applications, data and analytics platforms...
Process - digitizing, automating, and optimizing your business operations
leveraging new data and analytics platforms to create actionable insights
using machine learning (ML) to improve your customer service experience...
Organization - Reimagining your operating model
Organizing your teams around products and value streams
Leveraging agile methods to rapidly iterate and evolve
Product - reimagining your business model by creating new value propositions (products & services) and revenue models

Envision - demonstrate how the Cloud will accelerate business outcomes by identifying transformation opportunities and create a foundation for your digital transformation
Align - identify capability gaps across the 6 AWS CAF Perspectives which results in an Action Plan
Launch - build and deliver pilot initiatives in production and demonstrate incremental business value
Scale - expand pilot initiatives to the desired scale while realizing the desired business benefits