Guidance, Tools for Landing Zones Improve Azure Deployments

• Organizations should configure a landing zone architecture before deploying application and data workloads to Azure.
• Landing zones help establish governance, reduce security and overspending risks, and ease maintenance and expansion of Azure deployments.
• Microsoft guidance, including an assessment tool and templates that deploy recommended infrastructure, can help organizations build a landing zone architecture for new and existing Azure deployments.

An Azure landing zone architecture prepares Azure to meet a customer’s requirements before workloads such as applications and data are deployed. Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, a collection of Microsoft business and technology guidance for Azure adoption and ongoing use, includes a discussion and tools that help build a reference landing zone architecture. A lack of planning and establishment of landing zones can lead to Azure management difficulties, compliance violations, and extra work and downtime as deployments expand.