According to Digital
Transformation Is Not About Technology (Harvard Business Review), almost 70% of
investments spent on digital transformation are estimated to go to waste. Decision makers
and executives can become paralyzed by choice when formulating their digital and cloud
strategy. They might find that they are unsure of where to start or how comprehensive to
make their cloud adoption strategy. Sometimes, they can't clearly articulate the value that
the cloud can bring to their organization and customers, or they don't know how to shape
their organization's operations around the cloud. The following are some of the key
challenges that decision makers face when migrating to cloud. These challenges are organized
by their corresponding AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) perspectives.
| AWS CAF perspective |
Challenges and questions |
| Business |
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Should I scale existing businesses? Should I create new
business models or revenue streams by experimenting with new
technologies?
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What transformation levers can maximize ROI from the cloud
adoption journey?
|
| People |
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How do I reorganize my workforce to facilitate successful
migration or modernization of workloads?
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How do I equip my business and IT workforce to understand the
capabilities of the cloud? How can I help them upskill?
|
| Governance |
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How should we assess gaps in the current governance framework
to unlock the potential in the cloud?
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What mechanisms should I set up to track, control, and charge
back costs associated with the cloud adoption journey? What
approach helps my organization build governance at scale?
|
| Platform |
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Which migration
strategies, such as rehost, refactor, or retire, should I
pick for each workload? If I decide to use a hybrid cloud model,
how do I integrate on-premises workloads with workloads in the
cloud?
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What is the right modernization approach?
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I want to modernize a monolithic application to a software as
a service (SaaS) application. How should I proceed?
|
| Security |
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How do I assess security vulnerabilities in a cloud
environment?
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How do I establish security guardrails that help protect data
in the cloud and help my organization meet regulatory,
compliance, and security requirements? How do we take advantage
of cloud technologies that can proactively detect security
risks?
|
| Operations |
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How do I manage operations seamlessly in a hybrid cloud
environment?
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How do I use cloud-native capabilities and automations so that
I don't operate workloads as if they were in an on-premises data
center?
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