Welcome to the VMware Cloud Well-Architected Framework (VMCWAF) documentation page. The VMware Cloud Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices and design principles for organizations to ready themselves for VMware Cloud Infrastructure. Consumption of cloud services and new tooling will demand organizations learn new skills, adapt existing processes, and update automation workflows. The speed in which an organization can achieve cloud transformation will heavily depend on executive sponsorship, organizational readiness, and clear communications.

Whether you call it Digital Transformation, Cloud First or Application Modernization, most businesses are going through some form of transformation to become more competitive in this new digital era. According to a recent survey by VMware, 91% of executives agree their major application initiative in 2021 is to migrate and modernize legacy applications. The promise of cloud is its potential in transforming an organization to create and deliver new digital experiences for their end users.

The VMware Cloud Well-Architected Framework helps guide an organization’s cloud journey and is useful reading for a variety of people in different roles in an organization, whether it is cloud architects, CTOs, CFOs, and other implementers and operators of an organization's cloud journey.The framework is comprised of 5 pillars, which are the foundational guiding principles.

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