‫So now let's discuss
‫the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework also called CAF.
‫And this is something that is coming up at the exam
‫and you will have to remember a few things by heart,
‫but hopefully, by the end of this lecture
‫it should start to make sense.
‫So, CAF is basically an eBook.
‫It's a white paper, and so at such, it's not a service,
‫but the Cloud Adoption Framework
‫will help you build and then execute a comprehensive plan
‫to do your digital transformation
‫through the innovative views of AWS,
‫so how to leverage a cloud to be transformed.
‫So, it was created by AWS, by the professionals,
‫and its best practices grouping thousands
‫of customers all in one framework.
‫So, the CAF has two components, I would say.
‫The first one is called organizational capabilities
‫that could be underpinning successful cloud transformations.
‫And the second one is that these capabilities
‫are regrouped in two six perspectives.
‫And these six perspectives,
‫you have to remember for the exam.
‫So, we have business, people, governance, platform,
‫security, and operations.
‫And I'll go over them a little bit
‫for you to understand what they're about.
‫So, we can divide them into two categories.
‫The first one is the business capability.
‫And so, we have the three pillars,
‫so we have the business perspective, first.
‫And this business perspective helps ensure
‫that your cloud investments accelerate
‫your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.
‫The people perspective is a second perspective
‫within the business umbrella,
‫and it serves as a bridge between technology and business.
‫Very important to remember for the exam,
‫this is a question that can be asked of you.
‫And it helps you accelerate the cloud journey
‫to help organizations more rapidly evolve
‫to a culture of continuous growth, learning,
‫and where change becomes business as normal.
‫And so, through the people you have a focus on culture,
‫organizational structure, leadership and workforce.
‫And finally, we have the governance perspective,
‫which helps you orchestrate your cloud initiatives
‫while maximizing the organizational benefits
‫and minimizing transformation related risks.
‫So, business, people and governance,
‫with people being the bridge
‫between technology and business.
‫And so, within each of these perspectives,
‫we have the capabilities.
‫And so, for business,
‫we have capabilities that are related to business.
‫You don't have to remember them,
‫but it's good to look at them.
‫So, strategy management, portfolio management,
‫innovation management, product management,
‫strategic partnership, data monetization,
‫business insight and data science.
‫For people, we have anything related to people,
‫so culture evolution, transformational leadership,
‫cloud fluency, workforce transformation,
‫change acceleration, organization design,
‫and organizational alignment.
‫And for governance,
‫we have program and project management,
‫benefits management, risk management,
‫cloud financial management,
‫application portfolio management,
‫data governance, and data curation.
‫So, that's for the business capabilities
‫regrouped under the three business perspectives
‫of business, people, and governance.
‫And then, we have what's called the technical capabilities.
‫So, the technical capabilities are platform,
‫security, and operations.
‫And platform helps you build an enterprise-grade,
‫scalable, hybrid cloud platform
‫to modernize your existing workloads
‫and to implement new cloud-native solutions.
‫From the security perspective,
‫it helps you achieve the confidentiality, integrity,
‫and availability of your data and cloud workloads.
‫And finally, from an operations perspective,
‫it helps you ensure that your cloud services are delivered
‫at the level that meets the needs of your business.
‫So now, if you look at individual capabilities
‫within these perspectives,
‫we have platform, security, and operations.
‫So, for platform, we have platform architecture,
‫data architecture, platform engineering, data engineering,
‫provisioning and orchestration,
‫modern application development,
‫and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
‫So, for security, we have anything related to security,
‫of course, such as security governance, security assurance,
‫identity and access management, threat detection,
‫vulnerability management, infrastructure position,
‫data protection, application security,
‫and incident response.
‫And finally, operations is all around the operations
‫within the Cloud, so we're talking
‫about observability, event management,
‫incidents and problem management,
‫change and release management,
‫performance and capacity management,
‫configuration management, patch management,
‫availability and continuity management,
‫and finally, application management.
‫So, the goal is really when you go at the exam
‫to really understand what are the perspectives
‫that regroup these capabilities,
‫so you definitely have to remember business, people,
‫governance, platform, security, and operations
‫because there will be something asked of you,
‫and maybe sometime you will have to identify
‫a specific capability and associate it
‫with a correct perspective.
‫But if you look at the list which just went over,
‫usually it makes sense.
‫What is related to security,
‫sounds like security,
‫what is related to business,
‫sounds like business and so on.
‫Now, there's one less part
‫in this little diagram right here,
‫which is the transformation domain.
‫So, we have technology, process, organization, and product,
‫and that helps you drive business outcomes.
‫And some questions at the exam can be geared
‫towards these transformation domains,
‫so I'm also gonna go over this.
‫So, these four transformation domains,
‫the first one is technology.
‫So, we use the cloud to migrate
‫and modernize legacy infrastructure,
‫applications, data, and analytics platforms.
‫For process, we want to be digitizing everything,
‫automating, and optimizing your business operations.
‫That means you want to, two things,
‫leverage new data and analytics platform
‫to create actionable insights, thanks to the cloud.
‫And using machine learning
‫to improve your customer service experience.
‫This is all thanks to the cloud.
‫For organization, how do you reimagine your operating model?
‫So, for this, we want to reorganize the teams
‫around the products and the value streams.
‫And you want to leverage agile methods
‫to rapidly iterate and evolve.
‫This is something that can be asked for
‫at the exam as per my experience.
‫And finally, for products, reimagining your business model
‫by creating new value propositions
‫such as product and services and revenue models.
‫So, all this thanks to the cloud.
‫So, CAF missing like a very obscure framework.
‫And to be honest, it's something you kind of have to
‫just look at and follow
‫when you're doing your cloud adoption.
‫Now, from an exam perspective, again,
‫I want to reassure you,
‫you're going to be asked about the perspectives
‫and identifying which one is part of the framework or not.
‫You may be asked to identify
‫if a capability belongs to a specific perspective.
‫And finally, you may be asked
‫about these transformation domains and identify.
‫For example, what is organization made of?
‫Well, it's made of these two components,
‫which is to reorganize your teams
‫and leverage agile methods.
‫But all these things kind of make sense
‫by elimination when you go through at the exam.
‫So, even if you don't remember by heart what these are,
‫just remember that by using a little bit of brain power
‫and elimination, you will get there, okay?
‫So, that's it for this lecture.
‫I hope you liked it.
‫I did my best to explain this framework to you
‫and I will see you in the next lecture.