Landing Zones Prepare Azure to Reduce Risk

• Landing zones prepare an Azure environment before applications and data are deployed, establishing governance, reducing risk, and helping with ongoing maintenance.
• Landing zones also can help refactor and expand existing deployments.
• Organizational cloud centers of excellence or similar teams should manage processes for defining, enforcing, and maintaining landing zones.

An Azure landing zone is a set of resources and other configurations that prepare an environment to meet a customer’s requirements before workloads such as applications and data are deployed. Landing zones reduce risks of deploying to Azure by establishing governance for aspects such as security and costs and standardizing the way teams can deploy resources.

Landing zone configurations also can be applied to existing deployments to refactor or expand them. For example, refactoring could improve management efficiency or address an internal reorganization, and expansions might be required for new projects or scaling out existing ones.