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Accelerate cloud adoption with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

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Overview

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  • Learn how to create a clear strategy that helps your team understand executive direction, regularly measure progress, and drive success.

    In this module, you'll learn how to:

    • Assess your organization's readiness for cloud adoption.
    • Identify reasons for adopting cloud technologies and establish clear, measurable objectives.
    • Identify individuals and teams to help build and implement the cloud adoption strategy.
    • Ensure leadership and executive buy-in, align organizational strategies, and assess the readiness of your operating model.
    • Develop a comprehensive plan that outlines your approach to adopt and integrate cloud technologies.
  • Azure landing zones help accelerate how you configure your environment to meet your operational requirements.

    In this module, you will:

    • 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 zone and Learn modules to support your needs for cloud adoption.
  • Learn how to use the four stages of the Cloud Adoption Framework Migrate methodology to migrate your workload to the cloud.

    In this module, you'll:

    • Prepare your landing zone for migration.
    • Evaluate the readiness of your workload and plan for the migrated state.
    • Deploy assets and remediate problems.
    • Release your deployed workloads to production.
  • Learn about how technical change introduces risk in your cloud environment and how to evaluate risks and implement guardrails to help keep you safe as you adopt the cloud.

    In this module, you'll:

    • Learn about the Cloud Adoption Framework Govern methodology.
    • Build a cloud governance team to oversee cloud governance.
    • Assess cloud risks to determine which policies to implement.
    • Document cloud governance policies to ensure transparency.
    • Enforce cloud governance policies to ensure compliance.
    • Monitor cloud governance to maintain compliance and refine policies.
  • As workloads are deployed to the cloud, operations are critical to success.

    In this module, you will:

    • 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
  • Innovation is a complex subject 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.

    In this module, you'll:

    • Understand the innovation cycle.
    • Map Azure services to the phases of the innovation cycle.
    • Correlate technologies to business outcomes of innovation.
  • Security is a core consideration for all customers, in every environment. But moving to the cloud is a significant change that requires a shift in your security mindset and approach. The Cloud Adoption Framework provides guidance for this security journey by providing clarity for the processes, best practices, models, and experiences.

    In this module, you'll learn:

    • The key aspects of the Secure methodology in the Cloud Adoption Framework.
    • The importance of integrating security into every phase of cloud adoption.
    • Various security roles and their functions.
    • Various ways to modernize your security posture.
    • How to sustain and improve your security posture over time.

Syllabus

  • Develop a cloud adoption strategy by using the Cloud Adoption Framework
    • Introduction
    • Assess your cloud adoption strategy
    • Determine your motivations
    • Define your mission and objectives
    • Define your cloud strategy team
    • Prepare for organizational alignment
    • Cost efficiency considerations for your cloud adoption strategy
    • AI considerations for your cloud adoption strategy
    • Resiliency considerations for your cloud adoption strategy
    • Security considerations for your cloud adoption strategy
    • Sustainability considerations for your cloud adoption strategy
    • Summary
  • Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations
    • Introduction
    • Customer narrative
    • Common operating models
    • Design areas for Azure landing zones
    • Design principles for Azure landing zones
    • Journey to the target architecture
    • Choose an Azure landing zone option
    • Deploy the Azure landing zone accelerator
    • Enhance your landing zone
    • Summary
  • Use the Cloud Adoption Framework Migrate methodology to migrate your workload to the cloud
    • Introduction
    • Prepare for your migration
    • Assess your workload
    • Deploy your assets
    • Release your workload
    • Module assessment
    • Summary
  • Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
    • Introduction
    • Customer narrative
    • Govern methodology
    • Assess cloud governance risks
    • Document cloud governance policies
    • Enforce cloud governance policies
    • Monitor cloud governance
    • Module assessment
    • Summary
  • Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud
    • Introduction
    • Establish business commitments
    • Deploy an operations baseline
    • Protect and recover
    • Enhance an operations baseline
    • Manage platform and workload specialization
    • Module assessment
    • Summary
  • Innovate applications by using Azure cloud technologies
    • Introduction
    • Follow the innovation lifecycle
    • Azure technologies for the build process
    • Infuse your applications with AI
    • Azure technologies for measuring business impact
    • Azure technologies for the learn process
    • Module assessment
    • Summary
  • Strengthen cloud security by using the Cloud Adoption Framework
    • Introduction
    • The Secure methodology
    • Teams, roles, and functions
    • Integrate security into your cloud adoption strategy
    • Plan for a secure cloud adoption
    • Prepare your secure cloud estate
    • Perform your cloud adoption securely
    • Govern your cloud estate securely
    • Manage your cloud estate with enhanced security
    • Summary

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