Cloud Readiness Scorecard
How ready is your organisation for cloud?
Assess the business, technical, operational, security, financial and governance foundations required for responsible cloud adoption.
Designed for technology environments ranging from a few workloads to approximately 5,000 workloads.
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Independent learning tool
This is an independent, vendor-neutral self-assessment created for training, learning and general awareness. It does not promote any cloud provider, sell migration services, collect leads or replace a detailed professional assessment. It also does not assume that cloud is the right destination for every workload.
An independent architecture self-assessment by Subhakanta Kar.
Assessment coverage
What this scorecard evaluates
Business Drivers and Outcomes
Evaluates whether cloud adoption is connected to measurable business outcomes and governed decisions.
Application and Workload Portfolio
Evaluates whether the organisation understands its workload estate well enough to make defensible migration and modernisation decisions.
Infrastructure and Platform Readiness
Evaluates whether current platforms are supportable, standardised and suitable for cloud or hybrid operating models.
Data Readiness
Evaluates whether data can be classified, protected, governed and migrated responsibly.
Identity and Security
Evaluates whether cloud adoption can occur without weakening identity, access, security monitoring or incident response.
Network and Connectivity
Evaluates whether connectivity, routing, DNS and network security can support cloud and hybrid workloads.
Operations and Service Management
Evaluates whether the organisation can monitor, support and operate cloud services after migration.
Resilience and Recovery
Evaluates whether critical services can recover from infrastructure, platform, security and regional failures.
Financial and Commercial Readiness
Evaluates whether cloud costs, licensing, contracts and consumption can be forecast and controlled.
Governance, Skills and Operating Model
Evaluates whether governance, skills, landing zones and operating responsibilities are sustainable.
Estate scale
Designed for real technology estates
Small
1–250
workloads
Mid-market
251–1,500
workloads
Upper-mid-market
1,501–5,000
workloads
The scorecard evaluates whether the organisation can govern and assess an estate of this scale. It does not inspect every workload individually.
Your report
What the result provides
- Overall readiness score
- Ten dimension scores
- Critical readiness warnings
- Strongest foundations
- Priority gaps
- Immediate attention items
- 6R decision readiness
- Practical recommendations
- Print-ready report