Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/learn/lecture/37760092

AWS Documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-adoption-framework/

• Summary
• Contents:

What is CAF?

• 🔧 AWS Whitepaper/guide on how to transform/boost your business with AWS
  • Written by AWS experts, who have seen many companies and projects adopt AWS
  • Helps you build and execute a comprehensive plan for digital transformation
    • Includes lots of best practices and how to overcome common pitfalls
  • Many formats available: eBook, Kindle, audiobook, PDF…
    • 💡 Read/listen it through if you're interested!
• ‼️ Currently the CLF-C02 exam regularly asks 5-6 questions about CAF!! (10% of exam!)
  • CAF does require you to memorize quite a few things by heart, which can be quite annoying… it's bad news for those whose focus is purely technical 😔
  • 💡 You can opt to ignore/just get a high-level overview of CAF instead of memorizing details, there's still plenty of points to pass the exam comfortably… but if you're aiming for max score, you're gonna have to memorize CAF quite well…
• Many CAF Capabilities, grouped into 6 perspectives (3 Business Capabilities + 3 Technical Capabilities):
  • Business
  • People
  • Governance
  • Platform
  • Security
  • Operations

CAF Capabilities

CAF Business Capabilities

1. Business Perspective
   • Helps ensure that your cloud investments accelerate your digital transformation ambitions and business outcomes.
   • Capabilities included in Business Perspective:
2. People Perspective
   • ‼️ Serves as bridge between technology and business
   • Accelerates cloud journey to help organizations more rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth and learning, where change becomes business-as-normal
   • Focus on culture, organizational structure, leadership, and workforce
   • Capabilities included in People Perspective:
   • 💡 This perspective seems to be the most important/common to be asked at the exam…
3. Governance Perspective
   • Helps orchestrate your cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks
   • Capabilities included in Governance Perspective:

CAF Technical Capabilities

1. Platform Perspective
   • Helps build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform
   • Modernize existing workloads
   • Implement new cloud-native solutions
   • Capabilities included in Platform Perspective:
2. Security Perspective
   • Helps achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and cloud workloads
   • Capabilities included in Security Perspective
3. Operations Perspective
   • Helps ensure that your cloud services are delivered at a level that meets the needs of your business
   • Capabilities included in Operations Perspective

Graphical Summary of CAF Capabilities