Amazon Web Services Cloud Adoption Framework
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Amazon Web Services Cloud Adoption Framework
The economic, organizational, and societal impact of the pandemic continues to be a driving force behind digital innovation and the widespread adoption of cloud services, as highlighted by Gartner.
For organizations seeking an intelligent and streamlined approach to cloud adoption, an effective action plan can expedite migration to the cloud, achieve desired outcomes, and navigate common obstacles. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) offers a standardized blueprint for implementing, adapting, configuring, and managing IT workloads, databases, and assets on the AWS Cloud.
Each company’s journey to the cloud is unique, shaped by factors such as vision, future plans, budget constraints, existing infrastructure, organizational structure, and compliance requirements. Amazon Web Services Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) provides a standardized roadmap for migrating, configuring, and managing IT assets within the AWS Cloud, streamlining the cloud migration and modernization process. This framework enables companies to readily identify critical actions and objectives, including the migration of mission-critical assets, applications, and databases, to achieve both short-term and long-term IT and business goals.
With CertCube Labs, a leading application-focused Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) and an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, you gain access to the right set of native tools and services for comprehensive monitoring, asset management, and security, all within the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
AWS CAF assists in formulating the right migration strategy based on your organization’s business priorities, enabling the creation of a comprehensive plan with realistic ROI estimates. Additionally, CertCube Labs helps deploy intelligent cost optimization and automation solutions, enhancing the management of workloads in the cloud while maximizing agility, availability, and total cost of ownership (TCO) savings.
Our team of experts collaborates with your organization to create a comprehensive blueprint for your cloud journey, encompassing the stages of Discovery, Assessment, and Migration. Furthermore, we assist enterprises in identifying the most suitable strategy for their specific business use cases, ranging from deciding which workloads to migrate to determining how to cost-effectively execute the migration.
FIVE stages of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Define the Correct Strategy
In this pivotal stage, CertCube Labs aids stakeholders in understanding the business impact and expected outcomes of their cloud adoption.
Step 1: Motivation for Cloud Migration CertCube Labs assesses the enterprise’s business, current landscapes, and workloads to outline motivations under three categories: Critical Business Events, Migration Triggers, and Innovation Triggers.
Step 2: Identifying Business Outcomes We engage stakeholders to document desired outcomes, including financial, agility, performance, security & compliance, and reach and customer engagement goals.
Step 3: Business Justification CertCube Labs helps build a compelling business case for the cloud, highlighting benefits like cost reduction, asset recovery, and operational efficiency.
Step 4: Selecting the Initial Project With clear criteria and business outcomes in mind, we assist enterprises in choosing their first cloud project for a strategic and successful start.
Cloud Adoption Plan
The pivotal role of cloud adoption is to translate the adoption strategy into reality for enterprises. Through the cloud adoption plan, CertCube Labs’ expert team aligns technical tasks with desired business outcomes.
Step 1: Rationalize Digital Estate In this step, crucial decisions are made regarding assets, whether to rehost (lift and shift) or retire them.
Step 2: Define and Prioritize Workloads The initial adoption backlog is established by prioritizing the first 10 workloads.
Step 3: Align Assets Assets required to support prioritized workloads, whether proposed or existing, are identified.
Step 4: Review Rationalization Decisions made in Step 1 are further refined for adoption-path choices: Migration or Innovation.
Step 5: Estimate Timelines Preliminary timelines for release planning are established based on initial estimates.
Get Ready for Migration
Step 1: Prepare the Environment
Prior to building and deploying solutions, it’s crucial to prepare the cloud environment. The AWS Readiness Guide provides guidance on resource organization, cost control, and resource security and management. This step aids organizations in establishing their landing zone, which is the provisioned environment for hosting workloads migrated from an on-premises setup to AWS.
Step 2: Expand the Landing Zone Blueprint
Expanding the landing zone blueprint involves considerations in three key categories:
Hosting: This encompasses decisions regarding compute, storage, networking, and databases to establish hosting options within the landing zone blueprint.
AWS Fundamentals: These are the foundational elements for structuring resources within the cloud environment.
Governance Considerations: This step involves applying governance principles to each landing zone, ensuring compliance and effective resource management.
Adopt the Right Migration Strategy
Step 1: Intuitive Selection and Innovation with the 6Rs
In the process of modernizing older applications, Certcube Labs simplifies the choice among the well-known 6Rs:
- REPURCHASE: Enterprises transition from on-prem licenses to cloud-based versions of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.
- REHOST: Identify applications and existing workloads for migration and perform a lift-and-shift to the cloud ecosystem.
- REPLATFORM: Similar to rehosting, this approach involves customizations to ensure optimal performance on the cloud.
- REFACTOR/RE-ARCHITECT: This more intensive approach involves significant overhauls, often at the codebase level, to migrate existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads to the cloud.
- RETIRE: Recognize and retire redundant applications or platforms that contribute to unnecessary operational costs, replacing them with more cloud-friendly alternatives.
- RETAIN: Some high-performing legacy on-prem applications may be retained, especially if they are integral to critical projects.
Robust Governance for End to End Ownership
The AWS governance assessment is a comprehensive process that maps the entire customer network, systems, and applications to ensure scalability, high performance, resilience, and compliance. This involves:
- Documenting business risks and determining risk tolerance levels.
- Defining policies and establishing mechanisms to monitor policy violations.
- Monitoring costs and establishing accountability for cost management.
- Prioritizing security by design principles to ensure secure operations.
- Enforcing identity and access controls through proper Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Emphasizing and promoting consistency and standardization throughout the governance framework.
With a track record of securing infrastructure, data, and operations for approximately 500 enterprises across diverse industries, CertCube Labs stands as the world’s largest application-focused managed cloud service provider. Our global expertise in cloud cybersecurity management is dedicated to ensuring the utmost security for IT on the AWS cloud.
Our engineers harness AWS’s customized cloud solutions to offer industry-leading uptime, high availability, and intelligent risk management. We achieve this through the following key features:
Accelerated Cloud Decisions
Dependency, Discovery, & Planning
CertCube Labs conducts a series of crucial activities, including technical assessments, hardware/software evaluations, and application dependency mapping, all aimed at enhancing the prospects of a seamless and successful cloud migration. Our approach aligns with AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles to ensure that your application’s data and infrastructure are fully prepared for the cloud environment, ultimately leading to the best possible migration outcomes.
Optimized Native Cloud-Environment
CertCube Labs’ Cloud Adoption Framework empowers businesses to harness AWS-native tools and discover optimal solutions, streamlining their operations for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.
Cost, Clarity and Control
The AWS Cloud Migration Framework not only offers a cost-effective approach but also incorporates CertCube Labs’ intelligent cloud cost optimization strategies. This ensures a reduction in unnecessary expenses while maintaining high-quality and secure cloud operations. With our framework, you can optimize costs without compromising on quality and security.
Security
CertCube Labs enhances infrastructure security by leveraging AWS solutions and tools such as AWS Security and AWS Firewall. When combined with our Self-Healing Operations Platform (SHOP), these resources significantly improve the security of your infrastructure. Key features like auto-remediation and self-healing ensure a seamless end-to-end experience for cloud migration, modernization, and managed services, all while minimizing the need for human intervention. Trust us to automate and optimize your cloud operations for maximum security and efficiency.
Availability and Scalability
AWS CAF guarantees that your organization benefits from industry-leading availability and scalability, reaching up to the Application Login layer, with a remarkable uptime of 99.9%.