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The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure has tools, templates, and assessments that can help you quickly implement technical changes. Use this framework to accelerate your cloud adoption. You can use the following resources in several cloud adoption phases.

Strategy

Resource Description
Cloud Adoption Strategy Evaluator assessment Assess your cloud adoption strategy and get recommendations on building and advancing your cloud business case.
Cloud Journey Tracker assessment Identify your cloud adoption path based on the needs of your business.

Plan

Resource Description
Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool assessment Take the Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool (SMART) assessment to help you prepare for your Microsoft Azure migration in areas like business planning, training, security, and governance.
Cloud Journey Tracker assessment Identify your cloud adoption path based on the needs of your business.

Ready

Resource Description
Azure naming tool Develop your comprehensive Azure naming convention in minutes.
Terraform modules Use the Terraform open-source code base to build your Cloud Adoption Framework Azure landing zone.
Terraform registry Use Terraform to create your landing zone. Filter the Terraform registry website to list requisite Cloud Adoption Framework modules.
Enterprise-scale landing zone Deploy your open-source code base for the enterprise-scale implementation of the Cloud Adoption Framework Azure landing zone.
Data management zone Deploy a single data management zone to your subscription. Deploy the data management zone before the data landing zone.
Data landing zone Expand your landing zone with data. Data landing zone shared services include data storage, ingestion services, and management services.
Data management and landing zone Azure DevOps template Use this template to build your data management and landing zone.

Govern

Resource Description
Cloud governance assessment Identify gaps between your current state and business priorities. Find resources to help you address what's missing.
Azure Governance Visualizer The Azure Governance Visualizer is a PowerShell script that iterates through Azure tenant's management group hierarchy down to the subscription level. It captures data from the most relevant Azure governance capabilities, such as Azure Policy and Azure role-based access control (RBAC). The visualizer shows your hierarchy map from the collected data to create a tenant summary and build granular scope insights about your management groups and subscriptions.
Azure Governance Visualizer accelerator The Azure Governance Visualizer accelerator speeds up the adoption and deployment of the Azure Governance Visualizer script into your environment.
PSRule for Azure PSRule for Azure is a set of tests and documentation to help you configure Azure solutions. You can use these tests to check your infrastructure as code (IaC) before or after deployment to Azure. PSRule for Azure includes tests that check how IaC is written and how Azure resources are configured.
AzAdvertizer Use AzAdvertizer to get Azure governance updates. For example, you can find insights about policy definitions, initiatives, aliases, security, and regulatory compliance controls in Azure Policy or Azure RBAC role definitions. You can also get insight into resource provider operations, Microsoft Entra role definitions and role actions, and Microsoft API permissions.