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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.
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## 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