What is an Azure landing zone?

What is an Azure landing zone? – Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Docs

Azure landing zones are the output of a multisubscription Azure environment that accounts for scale, security governance, networking, and identity. Azure landing zones enable application migration, modernization, and innovation at enterprise-scale in Azure. These zones consider all platform resources that are required to support the customer’s application portfolio and don’t differentiate between infrastructure as a service or platform as a service.

Azure landing zone conceptual architecture

For many organizations, the Azure landing zone conceptual architecture below represents the destination in their cloud adoption journey. It’s a mature, scaled-out target architecture intended to help organizations operate successful cloud environments that drive their business while maintaining best practices for security and governance.

This conceptual architecture represents scale and maturity decisions based on a wealth of lessons learned and feedback from customers who have adopted Azure as part of their digital estate.

While your specific implementation might vary, as a result of specific business decisions or existing investments in tools that need to persist in your cloud environment, this conceptual architecture will help set a direction for the overall approach your organization takes to designing and implementing a landing zone.

Use this architecture as a starting point. Download the Visio file and modify it to fit your specific business and technical requirements when planning your landing zone implementation.