Azure Landing Zones: Enterprise-Scale Architecture

Azure Landing Zones provide a prescriptive architecture for enterprise Azure deployments. Think of them as a foundation for your cloud journey.

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Key Components

  • Management Groups: Organize subscriptions hierarchically
  • Azure Policy: Enforce governance at scale
  • Hub-Spoke Network: Centralized connectivity
  • Identity: Azure AD integration patterns
  • Management: Logging, monitoring, backup

Enterprise-Scale Principles

  • Subscription democratization
  • Policy-driven governance
  • Single control and management plane
  • Application-centric and archetype-neutral
  • Azure-native design

Implementation Options

  1. Enterprise-Scale: Full reference architecture
  2. Start Small: Minimum viable landing zone
  3. CAF Terraform Modules: IaC implementation

References


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