Cloud Concepts
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Guidance that helps organizations plan and govern cloud-enabled business transformation across business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations perspectives.
Key points
- AWS CAF connects technology adoption to business outcomes and organizational change.
- It helps identify capability gaps and coordinate stakeholders before and during migration.
- Outcomes can include reduced business risk, operational efficiency, revenue growth, and improved ESG performance.
Best-known use cases
- Prepare an organization for cloud adoption.
- Align people, governance, business, and technology work during transformation.
What candidates often confuse it with
- AWS CAF guides organizational readiness and transformation; migration services move or modernize workloads.
- The Well-Architected Framework evaluates workload design; AWS CAF addresses broader adoption capabilities.
Key Cloud Practitioner takeaway
Choose AWS CAF when the requirement is organizational cloud readiness or transformation, not a data-transfer mechanism.
Related services
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS DMS and AWS SCT
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.3