In the constantly changing IT landscape as well as the high demands that business places on IT, efficient cloud adoption has become a strategic necessity for organizations looking to increase their agility, scalability and efficiency. Azure Landing Zones provide a fundamental blueprint and proven framework for migrating and managing applications and workloads in Azure. Whether you are at the beginning of your cloud journey or optimizing existing resources, Azure Landing Zones provide the guidelines and tools needed to streamline and improve your cloud infrastructure.

What are Azure Landing Zones?

Azure Landing Zones is a concept to facilitate and guide the transition to Azure cloud services. It consists of a set of architectural guidelines and best practices designed to enhance the journey to the cloud. Landing Zones provide a well-structured foundation, based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well Architected Framework (WAF), that ensures your infrastructure is secure, scalable and cost-effective. By using Landing Zones in Azure, organizations can accelerate their cloud adoption process, improve operational efficiency and drive innovation.

Benefits of Landing Zones in Azure for different organizations:

• New Azure users - organizations looking to transition to the cloud (Greenfield): A clear starting point with a reduction in the complexity of cloud migration.
• Existing Azure users (Brownfield): Help align current setup with best practices and continuous improvement.

Benefits of Landing Zones

Implementing Azure Landing Zones offers several benefits. We name the most important ones:

• Robust and scalable cloud infrastructure: Based on a proven approach. Designed to grow with the needs of your organization.
• Enhanced Security: Security is one of the most important concerns, and Azure Landing Zones ensure that your cloud environment meets the highest standards, protecting your data and applications from potential threats.
• Scalability and cost-effectiveness: Scalability and cost-effectiveness are also key benefits. Landing Zones enable efficient resource management, so you only pay for what you use while retaining the ability to scale up or down resources as needed. This flexibility is critical for organizations looking to optimize their IT budgets.
• Alignment with best practices: Additionally, the Landing Zones are aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well Architected Framework (WAF), promoting a structured approach to cloud adoption. This alignment ensures that your cloud environment is built based on best practices, promoting consistency and reliability in your infrastructure.

Landing Zones for different phases of the cloud journey

Landing Zones is a versatile concept and it is therefore suitable for organizations at different stages of their cloud journey.

• For new Azure users (Greenfield): For new Azure users, also called greenfield deployments, Azure Landing Zones provide an easy path to cloud adoption, reducing initial setup complexity and providing a strong architectural foundation from the start.
• For organizations with existing Azure resources (Brownfield): For organizations with existing Azure resources, also known as brownfield deployments, Landing Zones facilitate alignment with CAF and WAF principles. This alignment helps organizations refine their cloud infrastructure, adopt new and enhanced cloud features, and ensure ongoing compliance with best practices.
• Continuous Improvement. Continuous improvement is a key feature of Landing Zones in Azure. By staying attuned to evolving frameworks and leveraging new features, organizations can keep improving their cloud infrastructure based on the experiences and improvements of thousands of other organizations working with Azure that have continually optimized their environments. This way, you make smart use of existing experiences and improvements.

Our approach to Azure Landing Zones

We have extensive experience in implementing Azure Landing Zones, helping organizations make the best use of Azure's great potential, while getting started in an approachable way. Our approach is based on the principles of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well Architected Framework (WAF), which ensures that your cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable and cost-effective.

Our approach: We use accelerators and smart solutions to ensure high-quality and repeatable implementations. This approach not only accelerates the adoption process, but also ensures consistency and reliability across all implementations.

• Improve operational efficiency.
• Promote innovation within your organization.
• Access industry-leading expertise and proven methodologies for a seamless and successful cloud journey.