Cloud management overview
The Cloud Adoption Framework's (CAF) Manage methodology offers a structured approach to cloud operations in Azure. Cloud operations include maintaining, managing, and optimizing your cloud environment.
Organizations of any size or industry can apply this methodology. The CAF Manage methodology helps you address critical aspects of cloud operations, ensuring the health and performance of your entire cloud environment.
Why is cloud management important?
Effective cloud management maintains business continuity while controlling costs in your Azure environment. Proper management reduces downtime, strengthens security, simplifies change management, and speeds incident response.
Cloud management checklist
Use the cloud management checklist to see all the tasks for each cloud management step. Use the links to quickly navigate to the guidance you need.
| Cloud management step | Cloud management tasks | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Administer Azure | ☐ Identify management scope ☐ Manage change ☐ Manage security ☐ Manage compliance ☐ Manage data ☐ Manage costs ☐ Manage code and runtime ☐ Manage portal deployments ☐ Manage code deployments ☐ Manage drift ☐ Manage operating systems |
☐ Azure management tools |
| Monitor Azure | ☐ Identify monitoring scope ☐ Plan strategy ☐ Design solution ☐ Monitor service health ☐ Monitor security ☐ Monitor compliance ☐ Monitor costs ☐ Monitor data ☐ Monitor code and runtime ☐ Monitor cloud resources ☐ Configure alerting ☐ Visualize monitoring data |
☐ Azure monitoring tools ☐ Monitoring reference ☐ Monitoring responsibilities |
| Protect your Azure cloud estate | ☐ Identify reliability responsibilities ☐ Define reliability requirements ☐ Manage data reliability ☐ Manage code reliability ☐ Manage resource reliability ☐ Manage business continuity ☐Manage security controls ☐ Manage security incidents |
☐Azure reliability tools ☐ Azure security tools |