Assess your own cloud readiness with the Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration.

Here are seven tips for successful cloud migration:

1. Have a solid business case for cloud migration: Cloud migrations make sense when they offer a tangible benefit to your organization. Outline your current objectives and decide how the cloud will benefit them. List out the pros and cons and how the success of your cloud transition strategy will be measured.
2. Categorize your workloads and desired outcomes: As you categorize your workloads and desired strategic outcomes, map the capabilities of your targeted cloud service provider. Does your cloud provider have the breadth of cloud services you need? Do they have the security, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities or SLAs you require? Do they have a professional services team to support you in planning, migration, deployment, and post-implementation? What do their partner and independent software vendor (ISV) community look like?
3. Establish a cloud operating model: A cloud operating model outlines how the cloud will transform your current workflows, internal processes, and operations. It should be based on your organization’s strategic objectives for migration and define how your organization will function after the migration is accomplished. It should account for everything that will be transformed by successfully adopting the cloud.
4. Estimate timeline and budgets: By using AWS Professional Services, you will receive a more accurate timeline and budget estimate before the project kicks in.
5. Prioritize what application to move first: It is rare for organizations to move everything to the cloud at once. Conduct a strategic portfolio analysis to determine what applications or workloads to move first.
6. Test adequately: Pay attention to the design and testing of your cloud architecture and the migration of data. Have a disaster recovery plan in place prior to initiating a migration.
7. Emphasize the importance of security: Cloud security is a shared responsibility between the customer and cloud service provider. Work with your cloud provider to create complete and robust security policies for success post-migration.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

How the tool works

1. The tool is designed to help organizations assess their progress with cloud adoption and identify gaps in organizational skills and processes. Your CART report includes a heatmap and radar chart with detailed scoring information and resources to help you improve your readiness score. How does it work?
2. Take the 16 question self-service survey. It’s available in English, German, Italian, Portuguese-Br, Spanish, Spanish — LAT, French, French-Canadian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Indonesian, and takes about 15 minutes to complete. There’s no cost.
3. The tool will assess your readiness across six perspectives from the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: business planning, security, operations, people, platform, and process.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

4. Receive a custom, report on your level of migration readiness. The detailed report will point you to additional learnings on where you scored high and provides assets to help you in areas where you might need development. This will help set you on a path to cloud adoption success. Click here for a sample report.

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