The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.
Also called Ready, Administer, Monitor, Protect.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains RAMP in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Cloud Adoption Framework
Microsoft's body of guidance on adopting Azure. It runs through seven stages (Strategy, Plan, Ready, Adopt, Govern, Secure, Manage), and the landing zone is what Ready delivers.
- MANAGE
A Unity Catalog privilege allowing a principal to grant and revoke access on an object, hand over its ownership and drop it, all without being the owner. It gives no data access by itself and is not part of
ALL PRIVILEGES. - Workload
Also called an experience: a Fabric toolset aimed at one job role, e.g. Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence or Power BI. Each keeps its data in OneLake.
Related terms
- Administrator role separation
Lets a user or group administer a read-only domain controller locally without receiving any domain-wide admin rights.
- AMO
A .NET client library that SSMS and Visual Studio use to administer Analysis Services servers and define their objects; for tabular models, TOM (the Tabular Object Model) builds on top of it.
- Azure AI Developer
Built-in role scoped to an Azure Machine Learning workspace or hub: holders can do anything inside it except administer the workspace itself. For Foundry projects, the equivalent roles are Foundry Owner and Foundry User.
- Azure Cloud Shell
A terminal running in the browser, already signed in to Azure, with a choice of Bash or PowerShell and both Azure command-line toolsets ready. It is somewhere to run commands rather than a language, and only its optional storage costs money.
- Azure Machine Learning
Azure platform where you train, deploy, monitor and retrain models of your own, practising MLOps through tools such as pipelines, online endpoints, model monitoring and prompt flow.
- CAF Plan
Stage in which an organisation gets itself ready for Azure and converts its strategy into an adoption plan.
- Catalog Explorer
Opened from Catalog in the sidebar, this is where you browse and administer Unity Catalog objects, their permissions and lineage, and their tags and comments.
- Confidential Corp
For internal-only workloads handling highly confidential data, this Sovereign Landing Zone group, beneath Landing zones, takes the Corp policies and adds confidential computing controls that protect data while in use.