Azure landing zones.
The platform the rest of your Azure adoption sits on. We build enterprise-scale landing zones with governance, networking and identity in place from day one, following the Cloud Adoption Framework — so every workload that lands afterwards inherits the same guardrails.
You'll recognise this.
You are about to start or scale Azure adoption, but the foundation was never properly designed. There are maybe three or four overloaded subscriptions. Resource groups and resources are named at random, so it is hard to tell what anything is or which application it belongs to. Everyone does things their own way.
Left alone, it gets worse, not better: every new workload inherits the inconsistency, policy is applied by hand or not at all, and untangling it later — once real systems depend on it — is far more expensive than getting it right now.
Senior depth, handed over.
- A management group and subscription structure that fits how you actually work.
- Networking, identity and governance baked into the platform.
- A foundation your team can extend, because it is handed over, not held back.
The decisions that matter.
A management group and subscription topology aligned to the Cloud Adoption Framework.
Why: Policy and budget inherit cleanly down a structure that matches how you are governed, so guardrails apply everywhere without being reapplied by hand.
What we'd rule out: A flat sprawl of subscriptions with no inheritance and no consistent policy.
Separate platform and application landing zones.
Why: Shared services and application teams have different needs and different blast radius. Keeping them apart means an app team can move fast without touching the platform.
What we'd rule out: Mixing shared networking and identity into application subscriptions.
Governance as enforced policy from day one.
Why: Azure Policy that enforces is a guardrail. A standards document on a wiki is a suggestion. Workloads that land afterwards inherit the guardrails automatically.
What we'd rule out: Written “standards” that rely on everyone remembering and choosing to follow them.
Built to the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework.
A landing zone is only as good as the standard it is held to. We build yours to the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, so the foundation stands up across all five pillars:
- Reliability — it stays up, and recovers when something fails.
- Security — identity-first, least-privilege, defence in depth.
- Cost optimisation — you can see and control what you spend.
- Operational excellence — it can be run, monitored and changed safely.
- Performance efficiency — it scales to the load without waste.
Infrastructure as code, not click-ops.
Everything we build is defined in code, so every change is recorded, reviewable and repeatable. We work in Bicep or Terraform, and can run it through Azure DevOps or GitHub, whichever your team already uses.
We maintain our own libraries of proven, reusable code that give a project a rapid start — up to an entire enterprise-scale collection of Azure landing zones. Our code is written to be run in production and maintained by your own people: readable, adaptable, and boring in the ways that matter.
Deliverables.
- A management group hierarchy and a subscription model that fit how you work.
- A platform landing zone: networking, identity and management in place.
- An Azure Policy set that enforces your guardrails.
- The platform defined in Bicep or Terraform, from our reusable libraries.
- A templated method for standing up new platform and application landing zones, with automation, guardrails and the Well-Architected Framework built in.
- A Well-Architected review of the foundation, and a handover to your team.
What it isn't.
- Migrating existing workloads onto the platform is a separate engagement (Azure Migration).
- Application-specific architecture inside a landing zone sits with the app teams.
- Ongoing FinOps is separate — cost guardrails are included, a cost-management programme is not.
How it fits together.
A top-level management group sits above the estate. Beneath it, a platform group holds the shared subscriptions — identity, management, and connectivity (the hub network). A separate landing-zones group holds the application subscriptions. Azure Policy is assigned high in the hierarchy and inherited by everything below, so guardrails apply automatically to any new subscription. Networking, identity and governance are provisioned once, in the platform, and every application landing zone inherits them.
With your team, not around them.
We align the structure to the Cloud Adoption Framework, agree the guardrails with you, and build the platform with your team so they can grow it after we leave.
Who it's for: We work with mid-to-large enterprise, State and semi-State bodies, education, and the partner consultancies who bring us in when a client needs senior Azure depth.
Frequently asked.
- What is a landing zone, plainly?
- The pre-built, governed foundation a workload lands on — the network, identity, policy and management already in place — so teams aren’t rebuilding the basics each time.
- Cloud Adoption Framework or Well-Architected Framework?
- Both. The Cloud Adoption Framework shapes the structure (management groups, subscriptions, governance); the Well-Architected Framework is the standard we build the platform to.
- Is enterprise-scale overkill for us?
- The pattern scales down. We build what fits your size and ambition — the point is inheritance and consistency, not maximum complexity.
- Can we adopt it incrementally?
- Yes. We can put the foundation in place and bring existing subscriptions under it over time, rather than a big-bang rebuild.
- Do you use Azure Verified Modules (AVM) or your own code?
- Mostly AVM. We use Azure Verified Modules for the large majority of our Bicep, with exceptions where a requirement needs custom code. We use AVM less with Terraform, where we have hit gaps in property coverage and control.
- Who runs it after you leave?
- Your team. The platform is code they hold, built to a documented standard, so they can extend it as adoption grows.
Proof
We built a Zero Trust Azure network for Lakeland Dairies — hub-and-spoke, Azure Firewall, across two regions, delivered in a 21-day engagement. Read the case study.
Talk to an Azure architect, not a salesperson.
Fixed scope, fixed price — quoted on enquiry.