# Next steps and resources
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Selecting the right deployment model for multicloud workloads requires careful consideration. Use the recommendations outlined in this paper to guide your decision-making and avoid common pitfalls such as unnecessary complexity and inconsistent governance. By following these best practices, you will accelerate your cloud adoption to meet and exceed your firm's goals more effectively.

Establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to drive organizational maturity and ensure your long-term success. Differentiate between SaaS applications and foundational cloud services, and identify core security and governance requirements for each. Whenever possible, adopt cloud-native, managed services, and implement hybrid architectures when your existing data center investments incentivize continued use. Lastly, use multicloud approaches when they add business value that outweighs complexity and cost.

AWS can help you manage single, hybrid, and multicloud environments. Your FI can use AWS management and observability solutions such as [AWS Systems Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/), [AWS Config](https://aws.amazon.com/config/), and [Amazon CloudWatch](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/) to simplify and centralize the management and monitoring of your infrastructure and applications, regardless of your environment. With data and analytics services such as [Amazon Athena](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/), [AWS Glue](https://aws.amazon.com/glue/), and [AWS DataSync](https://aws.amazon.com/datasync/), you gain insights from all your data, wherever it is stored. Hybrid solutions such as [AWS Outposts](https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/), [AWS Wavelength](https://aws.amazon.com/wavelength/), and [AWS Snow Family](https://aws.amazon.com/snow/) let you bring AWS infrastructure and services to wherever they are needed. Tools such as [Amazon EKS Distro](https://aws.amazon.com/eks/eks-distro/) help you build self-managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS, on premises, or on other clouds.

As you define your cloud strategy, consider these next steps:

1. Review the [AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html) to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap.

1. Identify a cloud implementation project as a proof of concept. This will help you define the cloud foundation or framework to validate any assumptions and to enable future cloud implementations.

1. Engage your [AWS account team](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/sales-support/) to discuss your cloud implementation goals. The AWS account team can provide clarifications, suggest approaches, identify dependencies, and work with your teams to plan your project from initial concept to implementation. The account team can also connect you to multicloud experts at AWS to help address your specific multicloud needs.

For additional information, see:
+ [AWS Architecture Center](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/)
+ [AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-cloud-adoption-framework/welcome.html)
+ [AWS Solutions for Multicloud](https://aws.amazon.com/hybrid-multicloud/)