Every major cloud publishes an adoption framework, and they are genuinely useful. They are also three different languages for the same journey. We run one process that answers the questions all three frameworks ask, expressed in whichever framework your organisation has committed to.
How it works
Motivations, business outcomes, costs and risks stated plainly, including what stays out of the cloud and why. In regulated industries, the regulator and your risk committee are part of the audience from the first draft.
Workloads assessed and sequenced, skills gaps named, foundations scoped. The plan says what moves first and what it depends on, not just what is theoretically possible.
Landing zones, guardrails, governance and cost management built before the first workload arrives, so scale never outruns control.
The frameworks, side by side
Azure, AWS and Google each publish a cloud adoption framework. They name the stages differently, but they answer the same five questions. Here is how they line up, and how we run them as one process.
| The question | Azure CAF | AWS CAF | Google Cloud AF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why are we doing this? | Strategy: motivations, outcomes, business case | Envision: opportunities tied to business outcomes | Lead: sponsorship, mandate and teams |
| What moves, and in what order? | Plan: digital estate, skills, adoption plan | Align: readiness across the six perspectives | Learn: building the capability to decide and deliver |
| What foundations come first? | Ready: landing zones and environment readiness | Launch: pilots and foundational platform work | Secure: identity, controls and trust foundations |
| How do we migrate and modernise? | Adopt: migrate and innovate | Scale: expanding what works across the estate | Scale: from tactical to transformational maturity |
| How do we stay in control? | Govern, Manage and Secure: ongoing operations | Governance, Security and Operations perspectives | Ongoing operations across all four themes |
We are agnostic across all three clouds, so we express the same disciplined process in whichever framework your organisation, your auditors and your engineers already speak.
What you get
When to call us
Azure CAF, AWS CAF, Google’s, or none yet. Thirty minutes and we will show you how our process maps onto it.