The document discusses building a cloud strategy using the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). The CAF takes a holistic perspective on cloud adoption focusing on six areas: business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations. It provides guidance to define a cloud journey by assessing current capabilities, identifying gaps, and prioritizing initiatives. Developing a cloud strategy requires understanding business objectives, vertical influences, organizational capabilities, and desired end state. Key tips include securing executive sponsorship, starting small and iterating, enabling experimentation, setting up a cloud center of excellence, and clear communication. The CAF helps organizations accelerate time to results in their cloud adoption.

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Harley Young, AWS Professional Services
June 2017
Building Your Cloud Strategy
Create your Cloud Strategy and Accelerate Time to Results

2. What’s ahead?
Do I need a
Cloud
Strategy?
AWS Cloud
Adoption
Framework
How do I build
my strategy?
Cloud Strategy
Pro Tips

3. Do I need a Cloud Strategy?

4. Cloud Adoption

5. Cloud Adoption
Fundamental Change

6. Cloud Adoption
Fundamental Change
Across the Entire Organization

7. Cloud Adoption
Fundamental Change
Across the Entire Organization
Need Stakeholder Support

8. Cloud adoption requires that
fundamental changes are discussed
and considered across the entire
organization, and that stakeholders
across all organizational units—both
outside and within IT—support these
changes.

9. HOPE
is not a strategy

10. CLOUD ADOPTION
STRATEGY

11. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

12. A little bit about
AWS Professional Services

13. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
leverages our experiences assisting organizations
around the world with their Cloud Adoption Journey.

14. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
CAF begins by identifying
the focus areas that are
critical to cloud adoption. It
groups these focus areas
into 6 Perspectives.

15. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
CAF Perspective
= Combination of
capabilities

16. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Capability
= Skills + Processes
in a functional area

17. People don't want to buy a quarter-
inch drill. They want a quarter-inch
hole!
— Theodore Levitt

18. The Business Perspective is
focused on ensuring that IT
is aligned with business
needs and IT investments
can be traced to
demonstrable business
results.

20. The People Perspective
provides guidance for
stakeholders responsible for
people development, training,
and communications.

21. Waterfall Agile

22. The Governance Perspective
ensures business
governance in the cloud. It
guides stakeholders to
manage and measure cloud
investments that help them
evaluate their business
outcomes.

23. Support
Managed Services
Professional Services
Partner Ecosystem
Training & Certification
Solution Architects
Account Management
Security & Pricing Reports
Technical Account Managers
Account Support

24. The Platform Perspective
represents the technology
services of the AWS cloud
platform. Provides patterns,
guidance, and tools for
optimal use of the technology
solutions and services.

26. The Security Perspective
helps define and implement
the required levels of
security, governance, and
risk management to achieve
compliance.

28. The Operations Perspective
provides process, guidance
and tools for optimum
operational service
management.

29. How do I build my Cloud Strategy?

30. Begin by understanding…
Your business
objectives
Your vertical
influences
Your
organization’s
capabilities
Your desired
end-state

31. Define your journey…
Baseline
Gap
Initiatives
• Assess and baseline current cloud /
IT capabilities with respect to
people, process and technology
• Define the key cloud adoption
capabilities required to achieve
business objectives
• Prioritize list of activities / initiatives
which when executed result in
delivery of the business strategy

32. Cloud Strategy Pro Tips

33. Secure Executive Sponsorship
Start small and iterate
Enable and encourage experimentation
Setup a Cloud Center of Excellence
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate

34. Next steps…
Build your Cloud Strategy
Remember: It is all about accelerating time to results
Read and understand the AWS CAF

35. Thank you!