• Understand how cloud adoption transforms an organization and the way people work • Identify critical stakeholders of a cloud transformation • Bring exposure to key decisions points • Help recognize cross-organizational dependencies • Real life customer situations and lessons learned will be addressed

1. Rehan Qureshi
Area Manager, Canada Professional Services
Moving to the AWS Cloud: An Overview of the
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

2. All change, even a change for the better, is always
accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett

3. This session is focused on minimalizing those
drawbacks and discomforts so you can rapidly
transform your business with cloud.

4. What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

5. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) helps
organizations understand how cloud adoption
transforms the way they work. It leverages our
experiences assisting organizations from every
segment and every geography with their Cloud
Adoption Journey.

6. AWS CAF is not specific to any one cloud provider,
but heavily leverages AWS experiences.
AWS CAF is not restricted to AWS use. It can be
directly used by customers or directly used by AWS
Partner Network partners.
AWS CAF contains no “secret sauce”– what we
know we are willing to share.
AWS CAF helps you create an Action Plan tailored
to your organization’s needs.

7. The Action Plan
Action Plan: Summary
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8. CAF begins by identifying the stakeholders that are
critical to cloud adoption. It groups related
stakeholders into 6 Perspectives. The Perspectives
allow us to understand Cloud Adoption from the
view of those stakeholders.

9. The Six CAF Perspectives

10. Each Perspective identifies a set the stakeholder’s
capabilities that transform with cloud adoption.

11. With each capability we identify what skills and what
processes will transform with cloud adoption.
And most important, how to create a plan to
address gaps.

12. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

13. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

14. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

15. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

16. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

17. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

18. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

19. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

20. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

21. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

22. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

23. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

24. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

25. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

26. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

27. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

28. Platform
Common Roles:
• CTO
• IT Managers
• Solution Architects

29. Platform
Common Roles:
• CTO
• IT Managers
• Solution Architects

30. Platform
Common Roles:
• CTO
• IT Managers
• Solution Architects

31. Platform
Common Roles:
• CTO
• IT Managers
• Solution Architects

32. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

33. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

34. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

35. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

36. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

37. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

38. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

39. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

40. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

41. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

42. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

43. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

44. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

45. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

46. The Action Plan

47. Dependencies
Dependencies
Dependencies
Dependencies
Dependencies
Dependencies
Identify Roles, skills
and capabilities for
Cloud-based IT
Helen A
Review current support
model and identify
skills gaps and training
plans
Bob Z
Establish skills matrix
and track Cloud
certifications
Helen A
Engage training
partner to identify
suitable training plans
Bill G
Review how cloud
governance will
integrate into current
Governance Team
Bruce C
Review RACI Model
for Cloud Managed
Services and align to
wider Support RACI
George F
Agree priorities for
Interim Governance
Dashboard
Bruce C
Map out timelines and
adoption process for
initial cloud projects
James H
Establish patterns and
standardization for the
cloud
Julie B
Review patterns for
shared services /
Retail Integration
components
Julie B
Review stack delivery
mechanism
requirements for AWS-
MS
Bryan N
Review and investigate
networking architecture
designs
Jim W
Review SecOps and
Service Management
integration patterns
(Cross) Tim A
Review security
operations skills and
capabilities and identify
gaps
Tim A
Create and agree a
RACI model around
security operations
Alice H
Undertake a Security
Assessment to
determine control
framework
Eve E
Review end to end
authentication
mechanisms
Barb L
Identify BANK service
operations processes
and align to current
operations
Dan N
Identify Interim and
Target Operating
Model requirements
Bob B
SkillsProcessDependencies
Learn about reporting
services for billing
Brad X
Learn about to variable
cost models for IT
John A
Establish a process for
billing enquiries
Brad X
Establish process to
review Cloud funding
options within IT
Finance
John A
Identify
Communication
Strategy for cloud
adoption
Mark A
Establish process to
create Cloud
Evangelists
Helen A
Undertake Service
Catalog Immersion
Day
Geoff M
Review existing
operational multi-party
processes that cloud
will touch
Dan N

48. Step 1. Identify your challenge and desired outcome

49. Step 2. Use the “Common Roles” and Capabilities
to identify the stakeholders

50. Step 3. Determine the questions, challenges and
concerns from the stakeholders. Write them down.

51. Step 4. Determine if the concern is remediated via
the development of new skills or via the creation,
update or integration of processes.

52. Step 5. Document those activities and the
stakeholder in the action plan.

53. Step 6. Prioritize the actions you will undertake in
the next 2-4 weeks.

54. For more details on the AWS CAF:
https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/CAF/
Download the AWS CAF Whitepaper from:
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_cloud_adoption_framework.pdf

55. Q&A