cloud-adoption

name	cloud-adoption
description	How to adopt and integrate the Microsoft Azure cloud into your organization. Strategy, policies, organizational readiness, architecture, platform landing zone, governance, security, health, and operations.

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