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Preparing for Cloud Adoption

We discussed the challenges of on-premises architectures in the last chapter, but it turns out that for the majority of businesses, moving to the cloud can be greatly beneficial. However, organizations that do not have experience with the cloud can struggle with finding their way as they lack the required skill sets in their teams.

Apart from you helping them out after finishing this book, there are a few other resources these businesses can leverage to ease their journey to the cloud. For this, Microsoft has two frameworks in place:

  • Azure's Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
  • The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

This chapter provides an overview of the WAF, curated for the cloud data architect. We will look at the ...

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