Cloud Architecture & Landing Zones
Establish secure, well-architected Azure foundations aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. Landing zones that scale, govern, and protect from day one.
Why Architecture Matters
Most cloud failures result from architectural decisions rather than technology. When foundational design is overlooked or undervalued, organisations face increased security risk, escalating costs, and cloud platforms that fail to support sustainable growth.
No Clear Foundation
Resources are fragmented across subscriptions with inconsistent standards, reducing visibility and obscuring critial dependencies.
Security as an Afterthought
Retrofitted controls and policies increase compliance costs and materially elevate security, regulatory and reputational risk.
Cost Surprises
Azure spend continues to rise without clear visibility into cost drivers or accountability for consumption.
Can't Scale Safely
New workloads require manual rework, increasing delivery risk and preventing consistent, controlled growth.
Governance Gaps
Policies exist without effective enforcement, allowing unmanaged Azure uage to increase risk, cost, and compliance exposure.
The Cost of Getting It Wrong
- • Elevated security risk from misconfiguration
- • Elevated costs from weak foundations
- • Audit failures and adverse compliance findings
- • Costly remediation to fix weak cloud foundation
- • Slower, riskier adoption of new cloud services
How We Build Azure Foundations
We design Azure landing zones that embed security and governance by default, enabling scalable growth while maintaining clear control and accountability.
Assess & Align
Assess the current Azure environment, regulatory obligations, and strategic alignment with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
Design Architecture
Define the target Azure architecture and governance model to ensure security, scalability, and operational control.
Build Foundation
Establish a secure, production ready Azure landing zone with core networking, policy, and security controls.
Enable & Handover
Validate the platform with live workloads and transition ownership with clear accountability, documentation, and operating models.
Assess & Align
Assess the current Azure environment, regulatory obligations, and strategic alignment with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
Design Architecture
Define the target Azure architecture and governance model to ensure security, scalability, and operational control.
Build Foundation
Establish a secure, production ready Azure landing zone with core networking, policy, and security controls.
Enable & Handover
Validate the platform with live workloads and transition ownership with clear accountability, documentation, and operating models.
Deliverables & Outcomes
A fully governed Azure foundation with clear documentation and operational rediness from day one.
Management Group Hierarchy
Structured management group model that clearly separates production, non-production, sandboxes, and platform services to enforce governance and accountability.
Subscription Design
Right-sized Azure subscriptions with clear ownership, defined purpose, and enforced financial boundaries.
Network Architecture
Standardised hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN topology that centralises connectivity and enforces consistent network security.
Identity Foundation
Standardised identity model with Entra ID integration, role base access control (RBAC), and governed privileged access aligned to Zero Trust principles.
Policy & Governance
Azure Policy that enforces security baselines, approved regions, mandatory tagging, and permitted resource types to ensure consistent governance and compliance.
Cost Management
Budgets, automated cost controls, and a standardised tagging and allocation model delivering immediate and ongoing financial visibility.
Security Baseline
Defender for Cloud, comprehensive diagnostic logging, and industry aligned security benchmarks implemented to deliver a consistent and auditable security posture.
Operations Baseline
Azure Monitor, centralised Log Analytics, and proative alerting implemented to provide continuous health and operational visibility.
Typical Outcomes
- • 30-50% cost reduction through right-sizing
- • Deployment cycles reduced from weeks to days
- • Audit ready Azure aligned to Essential Eight and ISM
- • Consistent, enforceable security across the platform
- • Clear accountability via structured RBAC
- • Scalable foundation enabling growth without added risk
Azure Landing Zone Architecture
Layered Foundation for Cloud Success
Layer 5
Workloads
The business value layer. Where your applications and data live.
Layer 4
Landing Zones
Subscription boundaries that isolate workloads and enforce billing.
Layer 3
Network
Secure connectivity hub that controls traffic flow.
Layer 2
Identity & Security
Zero Trust controls baked into the platform.
Layer 1
Governance
The non-negotiable foundation. Policy-driven guardrails.
Azure Landing Zone Architecture
Layered Foundation for Cloud Success
Workloads
Layer 5The business value layer. Where your applications and data live.
Landing Zones
Layer 4Subscription boundaries that isolate workloads and enforce billing.
Network
Layer 3Secure connectivity hub that controls traffic flow.
Identity & Security
Layer 2Zero Trust controls baked into the platform.
Governance
Layer 1The non-negotiable foundation. Policy-driven guardrails.
Microsoft Technologies We Use
Deep expertise across the Azure platform and Microsoft frameworks, applied to deliver secure, well-governed, and scalable outcomes.