AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

Question 1

AWS CAF

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

CAF Perspectives and Foundational Capabilities
Business Capabilities

Answer 2

• Business Perspective helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.
• People Perspective 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.
• Governance Perspective helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.

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* Business: Strategy Management, Portfolio Management, Innovation Management, Product Management, Strategic Partership, Data monetization, Business Insight, Data Science
* People: Culture Evolution, Trasnformational Leadership, Cloud Fluency, Workforce Transformation, Change Acceleration, Organization Design, Organizational Alignment
* Governance: Program and Project Management, Benefits Management, Risk Management, Cloud Financial Management, Application Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Data Curation

Question 3

CAF Perspectives and Foundational Capabilities
Technical Capabilities

Answer 3

• 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.

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* Platform: Platform Arhitecture, Data Arhitecture, Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Provisioning and Orchestration, Modern Application Development, Continuos Integration and Continuos Delivery
* Security: Security Governance, Security Assurance, Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection, Vulnerability Management, InfrastructuIre Protection, Data Protection, Application Security, Incident Response
* Operations: Observability, Event Management (AIOps), Incident and Problem Management, Change and Release Management, Performance and Capacity Management, Configuration Management, Patch Management, Availability and Continuity Management, Application Management

Question 4

AWS CAF –Transformation Domains

Answer 4

• 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

Question 5

AWS CAF –Transformation Phases

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

AWS Right Sizing

Answer 6

• EC2 has many instance types, but choosing the most powerful instance type isn’t the best choice, because the cloud is elastic
• Right sizing is the process of matching instance types and sizes to your workload performance and capacity requirements at the lowest possible cost
• Scaling up is easy so always start small
• It’s also the process of looking at deployed instances and identifying opportunities to eliminate or downsize without compromising capacity or other requirements, which results in lower costs
• It’s important to Right Size…
  * before a Cloud Migration
  * continuously after the cloud onboarding process (requirements change over time)
• CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, 3rd party tools can help

Question 7

AWS Marketplace

Answer 7

• Digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (3rd party)
• Example:
  * Custom AMI (custom OS, firewalls, technical solutions…)
  * CloudFormation templates
  * Software as a Service
  * Containers
• If you buy through the AWS Marketplace, it goes into your AWS bill
• You can sell your own solutions on the AWS Marketplace

Question 8

AWS Professional Services & Partner Network

Answer 8

• The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts
• They work alongside your team and a chosen member of the APN
• APN = AWS Partner Network
• APN Technology Partners: providing hardware, connectivity, and software
• APN Consulting Partners: professional services firm to help build on AWS
  *APN Training Partners: find who can help you learn AWS
• AWS Competency Program: AWS Competencies are granted to APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas.
• AWS Navigate Program: help Partners become better Partner

Question 9

AWS Knowledge Center

Answer 9

• Contains the most frequent & common questions and requests

Question 10

AWS IQ

Answer 10

• Quickly find professional help for your AWS projects
• Engage and pay AWS Certified 3rd party experts for on-demand project work
• Video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, integrated billing
• For Customers:
  Submit Request - describe your project
  Review Responses -Connect to experts (requirements & timelines)
  Select Expert - Based on rates,experience, …
  Work Securely - Give experts appropriate access to your AWS account
  Pay per Milestone - Charges added into your AWS Bill
• For Experts:
  Create Profile - Photo, bio, certs, …
  Connect with Customers
  Start a Proposal - work description, price, milestones, …
  Work Securely - Get appropriate access to customers AWS account
  Get Paid - Request payment after milestones are met

Question 11

AWS re:Post

Answer 11

• AWS-managed Q&A service offering crowd-sourced, expert-reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS Forums
• Part of the AWS Free Tier
• Community members can earn reputation points to build up their community expert status by providing accepted answers and reviewing answers from other users
• Questions from AWS Premium Support customers that do not receive a response from the community are passed on to AWS Support engineers
• AWS re:Post is not intended to be used for questions that are time-sensitive or involve any proprietary information

Question 12

AWS Managed Services (AMS)

Answer 12

• Provides infrastructure and application support on AWS.
• AMS offers a team of AWS experts who manage and operate your infrastructure for security, reliability, and availability
• Helps organizations offload routine management tasks and focus on their business objectives.
• Fully managed service, so AWS handles common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services
• Implements best practices and maintains your AWS infrastructure to reduce your operational overhead and risk
• AMS business hours are 24/365