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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework vs. AWS Well-Architected Framework

  • Migrating: AWS Cloud Adoption Framework — how the organization gets to AWS.

    • Org-level: people, governance, funding, operating model.
    • Perspectives and migration strategies.
    • Scoped to the transformation journey.

  • Handling: AWS Well-Architected Framework — how a workload is built once it’s there.

    • Workload-level: a specific system’s design.
    • Six pillars, reviewed continuously.
    • Never “done” — re-reviewed as the workload changes.

  • Split line

    • CAF asks is the company ready to run on AWS.
    • WAF asks is this workload built right.
    • CAF is org and time-bound. WAF is workload and continuous.

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