- Helps you build and the 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 successfule cloud transformation
- AWS CAF groups its capabilities in 6 perspectives:
- Business
- People
- Governance
- Platform
- Security
- Operations
- 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
- Platform Perspective helps you build and 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 infraastructure, applications, data and analytics platform, etc.
- 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, etc.
- 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 and 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 demostrate incremental business value
- Scale: expand pilot initiatives to the desidered scale while realizing the desired business benefits