Azure Foundation
A governed Azure foundation with documented ownership and a practical path for onboarding workloads.
Signs you need this.
- Everything lives in one subscription and nobody wants to touch it.
- There's no naming or tagging standard, so nobody can tell what a resource is for.
- RBAC is a handful of Owner assignments and shared accounts.
- More teams or workloads are arriving, but the current structure has no clear onboarding pattern.
- A customer or assessor asked how the tenant is governed and the answer is spread across people and screenshots.
What we assess.
- Current subscription and resource-group topology against the Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Identity and RBAC model — who has what, and where standing access should be removed.
- Network layout, address-space planning, and exposure of public endpoints.
- Existing naming, tagging, and policy coverage.
- Cost ownership — whether spend can be attributed to a business unit today.
What we implement.
- An agreed management-group and subscription structure.
- A role model that reduces unnecessary standing access.
- The connectivity pattern included in scope, such as hub-and-spoke networking or private endpoints.
- A naming, tagging, and Azure Policy baseline for agreed resource types.
- A documented cost-ownership model aligned to available business data.
What you get.
- Landing-zone architecture and implementation
- Subscription topology + RBAC design
- Hub-and-spoke network with private endpoints
- Naming, tagging, and Azure Policy baseline
- Cost-ownership model
What the engagement requires and where it ends.
Usually a focused current-state assessment followed by a fixed-scope implementation. Ongoing governance support can be scoped separately.
Client inputs
- Access appropriate to the agreed assessment or implementation scope
- Current subscription, identity, network, and ownership information
- Named technical and business decision-makers
- Known constraints, change windows, and workload dependencies
Explicit exclusions
- 24/7 operations, service desk, or managed-cloud support
- Application migration or remediation unless included in the written scope
- Certification, audit opinion, or a guarantee that a framework requirement is satisfied
Handoff
- Current-state and target-state architecture
- Decision records and implementation artifacts
- Ownership, exception, and operational guidance
- Knowledge-transfer session for the receiving team
Technologies.
Review the approach before you contact us.
Field guide
The Azure Landing Zone Field Guide
A Cloud Adoption Framework–aligned walkthrough of building an Azure landing zone that scales — management groups, subscription vending, identity, network topology, and the policy guardrails that keep it all in line.
Technical resource
Azure Landing Zone Checklist for Mid-Market Organizations
The practical checklist we run before deploying an Azure landing zone — identity, network, governance, and cost, in the order that actually matters.
Technical resource
How Azure Private Endpoint DNS Resolution Actually Works
The private DNS zone, the A record, and the hub-spoke resolution path — a clear mental model for the part of Private Link that trips everyone up.
Frequently asked.
- What is a landing zone, in plain terms?
- It's the pre-built, governed foundation your workloads land on — the subscription structure, identity model, networking, and policy guardrails set up once so every future project inherits them instead of reinventing them.
- Do we have to move our existing workloads to get value?
- No. The foundation is built alongside what you already run. We can migrate existing resources into the governed structure incrementally, or leave them in place and apply governance where it matters most first.
- What is CAF and why does it matter?
- The Cloud Adoption Framework is Microsoft's published guidance for structuring Azure adoption. Relevant design areas provide a useful reference, but the target state still needs to account for your access model, risk, workloads, and operating constraints.
Ready to start?
Start with a focused discovery conversation about the environment, pressure, access, and outcome. Pricing is provided after that conversation or a paid assessment when more evidence is required.