Improve your enterprise with the perfect cloud-based strategic decision-making technology. In this article, we’ll explain why you need the AWS cloud adoption framework and how it works.

What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework is a robust cloud services platform that provides its users with computing power, database storage, content delivery, and other features, thereby improving your business and helping it grow.

The main features of AWS cloud infrastructure are: 

  • AWS Management Console: a very easy-to-use user interface portal for accessing AWS services
  • AWS Command Line Interface: provides users with the ability to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line, and can automate multiple processes with their script

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Perspectives

The Cloud PWS adoption framework includes six main areas, termed perspectives. The purpose of each perspective is to identify weaknesses in your company’s current practices and systems processes, which are documented as resource inputs. Each perspective has specific responsibilities that are driven by operationally connected constituencies. Below we look at some of these perspectives.

Types of perspectives 

Business perspective

A business perspective improves your business strategy. These strategies are good because they are coordinated to maintain your business results and can adapt to business demands or technical capabilities as they evolve.

Capabilities: 

  • IT Finance – Improves the capacity to schedule and distribute IT spending finances with a usage-based cloud services cost model
  • IT Strategy – make the most of the advantages of a cloud-based IT solution for yourself
  • Business risk management – think about the possible effects of certain actions on your business

People Perspective

It helps your staff by preparing them for cloud adoption, teaching them new skills, and adapting them to the system. 

Capabilities:

  • Resource management – quickly identifies staffing needs for the cloud model
  • Motivation management – improves incentive and compensation programs to attract and retain IT, staff 
  • Career management – facilitates the acquisition and retention of necessary skills for the cloud-based operating model of weaving 
  • Organizational Change Management – facilitates business and cultural change management as a result of cloud adoption

Management Perspective

This perspective combines management and organizational perspectives. Capabilities:

  • Portfolio management – helps determine the suitability of the cloud for workloads
  • Program and Project Management – Helps with project management, using all necessary methods to improve projects
  • Business performance measurement – measuring the effect of the cloud on the company’s goals

Operations Perspective

This is one of the most important perspectives because if managed well, it can keep up with all types of operations, from scheduling and supporting to change and incident management.

Capabilities:

  • Service monitoring – identifying indicators of the health of IT operations
  • Resource inventory management helps you manage your virtual IT assets to deliver high-performance, cost-effective services
  • Reporting and analytics help you track the state of your cloud assets and provide analytics to help you achieve your desired performance levels and more