In the near future, numerous FAA applications are going to be migrating to the cloud. Different stakeholders from dev, ops, contracts, the cloud program management office, and FAA lines of business have different views about why, when, and how this should happen.

One way to better achieve convergence of views and alignment of interests is by publicizing a core FAA Cloud Services playbook that offers tiers of modernization to allow application owners and IT shared services to collaboratively make a return-on-investment based decision for individual apps as part of their cloud transformation.

We encourage your feedback and suggestions on these documents. Content and feature suggestions and discussions are welcome via GitHub. Alternatively, please e-mail Sean McBride.

The FCS Playbook are compiled from Markdown files using Jekyll. The Plays from the Playbook are available in the _plays folder,

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