AWS Cloud Transformation Maturity Model Whitepaper (2017)

AWS Cloud Transformation Maturity Model (CTMM):

  • Tool used by enterprise customers to assess the maturity of their cloud adoption
  • Realizing the vision of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)
  • Whole organization has to transform and adopt the cloud

Project Stage

Challenges and Barriers

  • Limited knowledge and training
    • Raise level of AWS awareness via education and training
  • Executive support and funding
    • Seek case studies of proven ROI, participate in AWS executive briefings
  • Purchasing public cloud services
    • Educate procurement and legal staff about new purchasing paradigms
    • Consider purchasing options
      • Direct purchase from AWS
      • Indirect purchase from an AWS Partner
  • Limited confidence in cloud service models
    • Execute one or more pilot/POC projects
    • Explore accelerator services, such as AWS Migration Jumpstart
    • AWS POC is another venue to get funding for POC projects executed via eligible AWS Partners, check Partner Funding webpage
  • IT ownership and direction
    • Conduct a Kickoff and Discovery Workshop

Educational resources for roles in your organization

  • IT leadership team
    • AWS Business Essentials
    • Online Videos and Labs
    • AWS Whitepapers
  • IT staff
    • AWS Business Essentials
    • Online Videos and Labs
    • AWS Technical Essentials
    • AWS Whitepapers
    • AWS Training and Certification
  • IT customers
    • AWS Business Essentials
    • Online Videos and Labs
    • AWS Whitepapers

Outcomes and Maturity

  • Effectiveness use of AWS resources
  • Knowledgeable and trained organization
  • Executive support and funding
    • Presenting a sound business case for funding the cloud transformation initiative to your organization’s executive leadership
    • Cost benefit analysis, customer reference examples, and risk management assessments
  • Ability to purchase AWS and AWS professional services
  • IT staff confidence and true buy-in
    • Successful execution of POC
  • Central IT ownership and a clear transformation roadmap
    • IT transformation roadmap has been communicated to key stakeholders across the organization
    • Roadmap provides direction on establishing preliminary AWS governance policies that mitigate the risks of business units moving forward

Foundation Stage

Challenges and Barriers

  • Assigning transformation support resources
    • Conduct a People Workshop and establish a CCoE
    • CCoE core responsibilities:
      • Defining central policies and strategy
      • Providing support and knowledge transfer to business units using hybrid cloud solutions
      • Creating and provisioning AWS accounts for workload/program owners
      • Providing a central point of access control and security standards
      • Creating and managing common use-case architectures (blueprints)
  • Providing leadership through a transformation plan
    • Conduct a Governance Model Workshop and a Migration Jumpstart
  • Integrating security and compliance policies
    • Conduct an AWS Security, Risk, and Compliance Workshop
  • Managing cost and budget
    • Conduct an AWS Cost Model Workshop
    • Develop a value management plan
      • Tactical benefits of the cloud
        • cost management, prioritization of IT spending, system of allocating costs
      • Strategic value from the cloud
        • agility, time to market, ITaaS, innovation

Outcomes and Maturity

  • CCoE for Cloud Governance
    • Standardization of strategy and vision
    • Centralized expertise
    • Standardization of technical processes and procedures
    • Bias for action
  • Clear transformation roadmap
  • Best practice security and compliance architecture
  • Strong value management plan

Migration Stage

Challenges and Barriers

  • Developing an effective and efficient migration strategy
    • Conduct an Application Portfolio Assessment Jumpstart
    • 6 R’s focus: retired, retain, re-host, re-platform, repurchase, and refactor
  • Implementing a robust migration process
    • Select and implement best migration environment
  • Setting up a cloud environment
    • Select and implement best management environment
  • Going all-in
    • Migration workloads using AWS/partner implementation tools and services

Outcomes and Maturity

  • All-in with AWS
    • Declaring AWS as its primary cloud host for both legacy and new applications
    • Strategic, long-term direction from executive leadership
  • IT as a Service (ITaaS)
    • Realizing the core benefits of cloud adoption: measurable cost savings, agility, and innovation

Optimization Stage

This stage occurs after your organization has successfully migrated all targeted application workloads. This phase is an ongoing loop of continuous optimization on AWS.

Challenges and Barriers

  • Optimize costs
    • Leverage AWS tools and features to continuously improve operational costs
    • New features, discounts, evaluation application and database licensing fees, cost reduction
  • Optimize operational services
    • Utilize latest AWS tools to continuously improve service management methods/processes
    • Improve automation adn repeatability of tasks
  • Optimize application services
    • Utilize AWS best practices and tools (DevOps, CI/CD) to continuously improve application management methods/processes
    • AWS application service offerings include:
      • Amazon API Gateway
      • Amazon AppStream 2.0
      • Amazon Elasticsearch Service
      • Amazon Elastic Transcoder
  • Optimize enterprise services
    • Continuously seek ways to aggregate and improve shared services
    • AWS enterprise services application include:
      • Amazon WorkSpaces
      • Amazon WorkDocs
      • Amazon WorkMail

Outcomes and Maturity

  • Optimized cost savings
  • Optimized operations management process
  • Optimized application development process
  • Optimized enterprise services