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 your management scope ☐ Manage change ☐ Manage security ☐ Manage compliance ☐ Manage data ☐ Manage costs ☐ Manage code and runtime ☐ Manage portal-based deployments ☐ Manage code-based deployments ☐ Manage configuration drift ☐ Manage operating systems	☐ Azure management tools
Monitor Azure	☐ Identify your monitoring scope ☐ Plan your monitoring strategy ☐ Design a monitoring 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 ☐ Azure monitoring reference ☐ Shared management monitoring responsibilities

Next step

Administer your Azure cloud estate