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

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