Summary and resources

• 4 minutes

Moving to the cloud is a complex undertaking. It requires the alignment of senior business leaders on the business value of making the move. They must then create an effective cloud adoption strategy that will be adopted by employees.

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure can help your business easily identify:

• When to move to the cloud.
• How to create an effective migration strategy.
• Which approach to technology migration and modernization your business should take.

Now that you have reviewed this module, you should be able to:

• Use the Cloud Adoption Framework to identify where you are in the digital transformation journey.
• Identify triggers and opportunities for cloud adoption.
• Recognize the components needed to develop a digital transformation strategy around your business, people, and technology.

Key takeaways

Here are the six key takeaways:

1. The three main components of the Cloud Adoption Framework (plan, ready, and adopt) can be applied to different stages for cloud adopters. They should be revisited often because cloud adoption is an ongoing journey, not a destination.

2. A modernization trigger is an event that initiates the cloud adoption journey for an enterprise. The most common modernization triggers include datacenter contracts expiring, the need to deliver applications and features faster, urgent capacity needs, a software or hardware refresh, the need to address security threats, compliance, enabling new business opportunities, and software end of support.

3. The Plan phase focuses on aligning technology decisions to business priorities, with clear business outcomes and setting the proper cloud rationalization approach.

4. Readying your people, organization process, and environment for cloud adoption are critical factors in the success of your cloud adoption journey.

5. Adopting the cloud technologies defined in your plan and for which you have readied your organization depends on what you're actually doing. Are you migrating or innovating with a new workload to the cloud?

6. Governing and managing your cloud environment is as critical to your successful cloud adoption as any other stage. As such, it should be considered and executed properly.

Resources

Use these resources to discover more.

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure:

• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure documentation

Financial planning:

• Total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator

• Azure pricing calculator

• Microsoft Cost Management

• Create a financial model for cloud transformation

Skills readiness paths:

• Azure fundamentals part 1: describe core Azure concepts
• Microsoft certified: Azure solutions architect expert
• Solutions architect: learning path

Cloud migration:

• Migration in documentation

• Migration considerations

• Migration tools decision guide

Cloud governance:

• Governance in the Cloud Adoption Framework

• Azure Blueprints samples

Cloud adoption plan:

• Review sample business outcomes.

• Review approaches to digital estate planning.

• Document those findings in the provided business outcome template to share with internal partners during the transformation journey.

• Identify the learning metrics that best represent progress toward the identified business outcomes.

• Establish a financial model that aligns with the outcomes and learning metrics.

• Document and incorporate the digital estate in the current environment to populate the financial model.