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. - Workload 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 workloads to take advantage of cloud capabilities. - Cloud-native: Building new cloud-native workloads and services in Azure. - Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/adopt/overview