- Module 1: Use the Cloud Adoption Framework getting-started guides to unblock your organization's cloud adoption efforts.
- Understand common roadblocks that prevent adoption success.
- Evaluate one or more guides that can help you get things started or move faster.
- Get started on the proper course of action by using shared guidance and related Learn modules.
- Module 2: Success in cloud adoption depends on having a clear strategy that helps a team understand executive direction and regularly measure progress. This module will help you capture the cloud adoption strategy you need to drive your success.
- Create clarity for a corporate strategy to ensure that all team members are working toward common goals.
- Establish metrics to create clarity, help the team learn, and systematically work toward your organizational objectives.
- Evaluate financial considerations to understand the value of cloud adoption.
- Evaluate technical considerations to help the team prepare for successful cloud adoption projects.
- Module 3: Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven cloud adoption plan from the Cloud Adoption Framework. For new innovations, learn from others who have used the target platforms. For migrations, understand how to evaluate your assets and plan the efforts required to move them to the cloud.
- Create an actionable cloud adoption plan
- Understand your digital estate
- Assess the digital estate with Azure Migrate and refine your plan
- Module 4: Azure landing zones help accelerate how you configure your environment to meet your operational requirements.
- Compare your management, governance, and security requirements for operations to common operating models.
- Evaluate options for implementing Azure landing zones against your short-term and long-term requirements.
- Choose the best Azure landing zones and Learn modules to support your needs for cloud adoption.
- Module 5: The Migrate methodology in the Cloud Adoption Framework guides you through migration to Azure by using repeatable processes and common tools.
- Understand the tools commonly used in migration
- Learn about the migration processes required to migrate effectively
- Demonstrate a simple migration (hands-on if possible)
- Understand options for properly migrating a variety of platforms and workloads
- Choose the best learning path to continue on with migrating a specific platform or workload
- Module 6: Any technical change introduces risk in your cloud environment. Learn how to evaluate risks and implement guardrails to help keep you safe as you adopt the cloud.
- Establish processes to properly govern cloud adoption.
- Classify tangible risks based on the reference cloud adoption plan.
- Integrate corporate policies to mitigate tangible risks.
- List implementation strategies to mitigate risks.
- Demonstrate Azure Policy additions that implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Prioritize future governance investments.
- Module 7: As workloads are deployed to the cloud, operations are critical to success.
- Evaluate levels of business commitment across your portfolio of workloads
- Deploy an operations baseline
- Customize the baseline to meet operations needs
- Centralize operations for core platforms
- Partner with workload teams for richer decentralized operations
- Module 8: Innovation is a complex topic that encompasses many disciplines. The agility of the public cloud allows quicker innovation cycles and quicker hypothesis verification. Learn how to use Azure cloud technologies to sustain your organization's innovation requirements.
- Understand the innovation cycle
- Map Azure services to the phases of the innovation cycle
- Correlate technologies to business outcomes of innovation
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