cloud-adoption

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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.
    - 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