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AWS CAF — Cloud Adoption Framework

The 6 perspectives

Section titled “The 6 perspectives”
Perspective Focus Key capabilities
Business $$$ value Strategy, finance, portfolio, value realization
People Humans/skills Org change, culture, workforce
Governance Control/oversight Portfolio mgmt, DATA CATALOG, risk/compliance
Platform BUILD the tech foundation Architecture, data architecture, platform engineering
Security Protect IAM, detective control, INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION, INCIDENT RESPONSE, data protection
Operations RUN it daily OBSERVABILITY, incident/problem mgmt, availability/continuity

Memory anchors

Section titled “Memory anchors”
Business   = $$$ value
People     = humans/skills
Governance = control the DATA + portfolio (catalog!)
Platform   = BUILD the foundation
Security   = protect (IAM, incident response, infra protection)
Operations = run it (observability!)

Exam traps (capability → perspective)

Section titled “Exam traps (capability → perspective)”
  • Observability → Operations (NOT Security)
  • Incident response → Security (NOT Operations — attack response = security)
  • Infrastructure protection → Security
  • Data catalog inventory → Governance (NOT Platform — platform builds, governance manages)
  • Availability/continuity → Operations

CAF vs Well-Architected

Section titled “CAF vs Well-Architected”
CAF = HOW to adopt cloud as an ORG (perspectives = lenses on the organization)
WAF = HOW to architect WELL once in (pillars = qualities of good systems)


CAF: business / people / governance / platform / security / operations
WAF: op excellence / security / reliability / perf efficiency / cost / sustainability
Section titled “Related”
  • [[aws/index]]
  • [[aws/well-architected/index]]