These are two of the seven capabilities that are in the platform perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF). The platform perspective helps you build an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud platform, modernize existing workloads, and implement new cloud-native solutions1. The other five capabilities are:
Platform architecture – Establish and maintain guidelines, principles, patterns, and guardrails for your cloud environment.
Platform engineering – Build a compliant multi-account cloud environment with enhanced security features, and packaged, reusable cloud products.
Platform operations – Manage and optimize your cloud environment with automation, monitoring, and incident response.
Application development – Develop and deploy cloud-native applications using modern architectures and best practices.
Application migration – Migrate your existing applications to the cloud using proven methodologies and tools.
Performance and capacity management, infrastructure protection, and change and release management are not capabilities of the platform perspective. They are part of the operations perspective, which helps you achieve operational excellence in the cloud2. The operations perspective comprises six capabilities:
Performance and capacity management – Monitor and optimize the performance and capacity of your cloud workloads.
Infrastructure protection – Protect your cloud infrastructure from unauthorized access, malicious attacks, and data breaches.
Change and release management – Manage changes and releases to your cloud workloads using automation and governance.
Configuration management – Manage the configuration of your cloud resources and applications using automation and version control.
Incident management – Respond to incidents affecting your cloud workloads using best practices and tools.
Service continuity management – Ensure the availability and resilience of your cloud workloads using backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
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