Cloud management overview

Effective cloud management ensures your Azure cloud estate aligns with business objectives and minimizes the effects of incidents. The Cloud Adoption Framework's (CAF) Manage methodology outlines the RAMP (Ready, Administer, Monitor, Protect) process and provides clear steps for managing your Azure cloud estate.

The CAF Manage RAMP process supports organizations ranging from large enterprises to startups. It guides you through the process of establishing cloud operations and maintaining your Azure estate.

Cloud management checklist

Use the cloud management checklist to review tasks associated with each step of the CAF Manage RAMP process. Navigate quickly to detailed guidance through provided links.

Cloud management step (RAMP)	Cloud management tasks	Resources
Ready operations	☐ Identify your management responsibilities ☐ Establish your cloud operations ☐ Document your cloud operations ☐ Manage your cloud operations ☐ Improve operations	☐ Azure management resources
Administer Azure	☐ Identify management scope ☐ Manage change ☐ Manage security ☐ Manage compliance ☐ Manage data ☐ Manage costs ☐ Manage code and runtime ☐ Manage cloud resources ☐ Manage code deployments ☐ Manage drift ☐ Manage resource sprawl ☐ 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 Azure	☐ 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

Next step

Ready your Azure cloud operations