Azure Landing Zone
Assessment, architecture and implementation of an Azure platform foundation, with explicit ownership and operational boundaries.
An Azure environment can run production workloads successfully while still being difficult to govern, secure or scale.
A landing zone establishes the platform foundation that workload teams operate within.
We assess an existing Azure environment or design a new platform foundation before larger-scale cloud adoption.
What we assess
Tenant and platform structure
- Tenant assumptions
- Management group hierarchy
- Subscription strategy
- Platform and workload separation
- Environment organization
Identity and access
- Azure RBAC
- Privileged administration
- Microsoft Entra integration
- PIM
- Access boundaries
Governance
- Azure Policy
- Policy assignment structure
- Exemptions
- Resource standards
- Tagging
- Subscription governance
Network
- Connectivity model
- Hub/spoke or Virtual WAN architecture
- DNS
- Private connectivity
- Hybrid connectivity
- Network security boundaries
Security
- Defender for Cloud foundations
- Security monitoring
- Control-plane protection
- Platform security responsibilities
Management
- Central logging
- Azure Monitor
- Operational visibility
- Backup and recovery baseline
Platform engineering
- Infrastructure as Code
- Landing-zone lifecycle
- Deployment workflow
- Subscription provisioning
- Configuration consistency
What you receive
- Current-state assessment
- Target landing-zone architecture
- Design decisions
- Gap and risk register
- Prioritized remediation plan
- Implementation backlog
- Platform validation
Example public finding
This is an illustrative example, not a finding from a customer assessment.
ALZ-011 — Subscription organization does not provide a stable governance boundary
Observation
Production and non-production workloads are organized primarily around historical subscription creation rather than a deliberate management-group and policy model.
Why it matters
As the environment grows, policy assignment, RBAC, security monitoring and operational ownership become increasingly difficult to apply consistently.
Recommended direction
Define the intended platform and workload structure first, then align management groups, subscriptions, policy scope and operational ownership to that model.
Do not reorganize subscriptions solely to make the hierarchy visually tidy. Each structural change should support a governance, security or operating requirement.
Public methodology
Public material may include:
- Landing-zone design domains
- Architecture principles
- Public readiness checklist
- Decision records
- Sanitized architecture example
- Sample findings
- Example report structure
Environment-specific assessment details and remediation guidance are provided within the agreed project scope.