As organizations increasingly embrace cloud computing, their journey towards cloud adoption becomes more complex. The introduction to the hybrid and multicloud scenario outlined in the provided content consolidates various technical and non-technical considerations required to prepare for this journey.

The key focus of this scenario is to enable two primary outcomes:

  1. Hybrid and Multicloud Adoption: Building, deploying, and/or migrating solutions that are portable, allowing for ease of movement between cloud platforms with minimum vendor lock-in.
  2. Unified Operations: Streamlining operations to support those solutions across each cloud, through a central set of governance and management processes which share common operations processes, regardless of where the solution is currently deployed.

To deliver this end-to-end customer journey, the scenario outlines several key components or guidance sets:

  1. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure: These articles walk through the considerations and implementations of each Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) methodology, helping prepare decision makers, central IT, and the cloud center of excellence for the adoption of hybrid and multicloud workloads.
  2. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: These articles outline the considerations that each workload owner should make when their workloads need to be deployed across hybrid and multicloud environments.
  3. Reference Architectures: These reference solutions aid in accelerating deployment for a number of common hybrid and multicloud scenarios.
  4. Best Practices: These level 300+ articles help central IT teams onboard assets to a unified operations solution using Azure Arc, ARM templates, and other relevant Azure products.
  5. Azure Products: Learn more about the products that support your hybrid and multicloud strategy in Azure.
  6. Learning Modules: Gain the hands-on skills required to implement, maintain, and support hybrid and multicloud solutions.

The scenario also addresses several common customer challenges and provides supporting guidance:

  • Prepare for Centralized Operations: Review the Cloud Adoption Framework articles to establish the processes and approaches required to support an entire portfolio of workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments.
  • Monitor Assets Across Hybrid and Multicloud: Focus on the unified operations, govern, and manage articles to integrate unified operations into your existing operations processes.
  • Influence Changes to Individual Workloads: Use the Azure Well-Architected Framework guidance to help workload owners understand potential improvements to their workloads that will improve hybrid and multicloud operations.
  • Optimize Individual Workloads: Workload owners should use the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Review guidance to understand the best ways to integrate hybrid and multicloud strategies into their workloads.
  • Onboard Individual Assets: Use the best practices section to execute a series of processes to onboard all of your hybrid assets.
  • Implement Specific Azure Products: Accelerate and improve hybrid and multicloud capabilities using a variety of Azure products outlined in the featured products section.

By leveraging the guidance and resources outlined in this scenario, organizations can navigate the complexities of hybrid and multicloud adoption, build portable solutions, and streamline operations through unified governance and management processes.

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