Cloud Adoption

Cloud adoption process

1. Strategy/Executive strategy

• Target audience: Decision makers, C-suite leadership. Anyone responsible for technology investment decisions, or leading a cloud adoption initiative.
• Scope: Scope:(1-2 pages) This is a pre-sales document.
  • Intro paragraph: What the goal? What is the challenge? What is the solution?
  • Why this solution?
  • What level of investment is required? (cost factors, and links to pricing and calculators)
  • Time to value?
  • How to adopt this technology (level of effort)? (Overview of the following sections so C-suite knows the level of effort).
• Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/

2. Plan/Organizational Readiness

• Target audience: Anyone responsible for hiring, skilling, assigning roles and responsibilities, and ensuring organizational readiness for cloud adoption.
• Scope:
  • Cloud operating model: Responsibilities, teams structure How to assign responsibility for cloud tasks. How to structure personnel.
  • Cloud skilling: Necessary skills for cloud success and resources to get these skills.
  • Organizational policies: Guidelines and policies for cloud adoption and usage.
• Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/plan/prepare-organization-for-cloud

3. Ready (Architecture, platform landing zone)

• Target audience: Anyone responsible for configuring Azure for all workloads and building and maintaining the cloud platform.
• Scope: Platform landing zone:
  • Azure agreement and billing:
  • Identity and access management: Microsoft Entra ID
  • Resource organization: How to structure your management groups
  • Platform subscriptions and platform services: networking, management, connectivity, security, monitoring, logs, backups.
  • Application landing zone (subscription) distribution process
  • Governance and security baselines
• Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/

4. Govern, Secure, and Manage (Operational standards)

• Target audience: Anyone responsible for governing securing, and monitoring the entire cloud environment.
• Scope:
  • Governance: Policies, compliance, cost management, resource consistency, identity and access management, security baselines.
  • Security: Threat protection, vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response.
  • Health: Monitoring, alerts, performance optimization, capacity planning.
• Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/govern/ Secure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/secure/overview Manage: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/manage/ready-cloud-operations

5. Adopt

• Target audience: Anyone responsible for migrating or building workloads in Azure.
• Scope:
  • Migration: Strategies and tools for migrating existing workloads to Azure.
  • Modernization: Modernizing applications to take advantage of cloud capabilities.
  • Cloud-native: Building new cloud-native applications and services in Azure.
• Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/adopt/overview