Establishing a robust cloud platform and operational model through the CCoE

This article discusses establishing a robust cloud platform through a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), focusing on the technical perspectives of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).

• Platform Perspective:
  • Define reference architecture
  • Establish naming and tagging standards
  • Develop service roadmap and catalog
  • Implement infrastructure as code
• Security Perspective:
  • Implement baseline security controls
  • Automate security processes
  • Integrate security tooling
  • Use specialized security services
• Operations Perspective:
  • Establish incident management
  • Implement change and release management
  • Deploy monitoring tools
  • Create disaster recovery plans

The article recommends a crawl, walk, run approach to cloud adoption, progressively building capabilities across platform, security, and operations domains.