A mayor’s office asks what the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is meant to help organizations do. Which statement is accurate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
CAF is a playbook for how the whole organization adopts the cloud — people, process, and technology — not a server size or a secret half-price coupon. It helps cities move faster and aim for better business outcomes. It is not an instance family, not a database engine, and not an automatic invoice cut.
Full Explanation
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides structured guidance to accelerate cloud adoption and improve business outcomes. For a mayor’s office, CAF organizes perspectives that help the municipality move from ad-hoc migrations to an adoption journey tied to business results and reduced adoption risk.
CAF is not an EC2 instance type family, not a managed database engine replacing RDS, and not a billing discount that halves invoices. Those distractors confuse product SKUs or pricing with an adoption guidance framework.
Exam caveat: CAF = adoption guidance for organizations; Well-Architected = workload design pillars—do not conflate them. Operational check: map the city’s cloud program to CAF perspectives (business, people, governance, platform, security, operations), identify gaps, and assign owners before the next steering meeting.
Municipal teams should keep a one-page decision record linking this Cloud Practitioner concept to resident outcomes, revisit it after major traffic or compliance changes, and ensure runbooks still match the chosen design.
Municipal teams should keep a one-page decision record linking this Cloud Practitioner concept to resident outcomes, revisit it after major traffic or compliance changes, and ensure runbooks still match the chosen design.