# Operations automation
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You are not expected to have all your IT operations fully automated on day 1. Take a phased approach instead. Start by carefully prioritizing the core operations functions that are listed in the following table. Use the AWS services listed in the [AWS services for automation ](aws-services-for-automation.md) section to streamline the modernization process.


| **Core operations functions** | **Capabilities and considerations** | 
| --- | --- | 
| Platform architecture and governance | [Account strategy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/design-principles-for-your-multi-account-strategy.html), [virtual private cloud (VPC) strategy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/building-scalable-secure-multi-vpc-network-infrastructure/welcome.html), [multi-Region and Multi-AZ strategy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/aws-multi-region-fundamentals/introduction.html), [tagging strategy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/tagging-best-practices/tagging-best-practices.html), IP addressing and connectivity, [security strategy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/security-reference-architecture/welcome.html), audit and compliance | 
| Event and incident management | Alerting and alarming, incident management process, AWS Support engagement, service desk, [observability toolsets and integrations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-accelerate-observability-outcomes/), cloud runbooks | 
| Provisioning and configuration management | Provisioning, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and toolset, release management, testing framework and toolset, code repository, branching strategy, blue/green deployments, configuration management database (CMDB), configuration items | 
| Availability and continuity management | High availability architecture, automatic scaling, [backup and restore](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/backup-recovery/welcome.html), replication, recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO), data storage and retention policy, [disaster recovery](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/strategy-database-disaster-recovery/defining.html), automation and bots, hybrid options, storage gateways | 
| Monitoring and observability | Metrics, logging, application performance, user experience, network monitoring, unified dashboards |