GAD-AZ12 Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

1. Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

2. Define strategy.

1. 1. Understand motivations for cloud adoption.
   2. Develop a business case.
   3. Choose first cloud adoption project.
   4. Tools: Cloud Journey Tracker.

 3. Plan

1. 1. Assess your digital estate.
   2. Align people across different cloud teams.
   3. Create a cloud adoption plan to manage change.
   4. Tools: Cloud adoption plan template & Cloud adoption plan DevOps generator.

4. Ready. Landing zone.

1. 1. Review the Azure setup guide and set up your cloud environment.
   2. Start small and expand.
   3. Start with enterprise-scale.
   4. Create your migration landing zone.
   5. Tools: Azure setup guide, Azure migration guide, Migration landing zone blueprint.

5. Adopt

1. 1. Move on-premises workloads to the cloud following the process of Assess, Migrate, Optimize, and Secure & Manage.
   2. Take advantage of cloud-native technologies and modernize solutions.
   3. Tools: Azure Migrate.

6. Govern

1. 1. Create a benchmark to track your governance state.
   2. Implement a governance minimum viable product (MVP).
   3. Evolve cloud governance processes and policies as cloud adoption grows.
   4. Tools: Governance Benchmark.

7. Manage

1. 1. Classify cloud resources through impact analysis.
   2. Operate, monitor, and manage resilient solutions.
   3. Build reliable solutions by preparing for outages.
   4. Tools: Azure Architecture Review.