Azure Foundations
A secure, well-architected Azure landing zone — ready in weeks.
Establish a best-practice Azure foundation aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework — identity, networking, security, governance and management baselines, all deployed as code so your teams build with confidence from day one.
Most cloud problems start with a weak foundation
A well-architected landing zone prevents sprawl, cost overruns and security gaps before they start — and gives teams a self-service base to build on.
Ungoverned sprawl
Ad-hoc subscriptions and resources accumulate without policy, ownership or cost control.
Security gaps
Inconsistent identity, network and policy leave openings that are expensive to fix later.
Cost surprises
Without guardrails and tagging, spend drifts and accountability blurs.
Slow delivery
Teams wait on manual, one-off environment setup instead of self-service.
A proven, four-phase program
Discover
Week 1- Review goals, workloads and compliance needs
- Assess current Azure estate and identity
- Define naming, tagging and subscription strategy
- Capture networking and connectivity requirements
- Requirements & constraints summary
- Current-state assessment
- Target subscription & management-group design
Design
Week 2- Architect management groups & subscriptions
- Design hub-spoke networking & connectivity
- Define Azure Policy and RBAC model
- Plan monitoring, cost and governance
- CAF-aligned landing zone architecture
- Security & governance blueprint
- IaC approach & repo structure
Build
Weeks 3–4- Deploy landing zone as infrastructure-as-code
- Apply identity, network and policy baselines
- Stand up monitoring, logging and cost controls
- Configure RBAC and self-service guardrails
- Provisioned landing zone
- Baselines enforced via policy
- Monitoring & cost dashboards
Handover
Weeks 5–6- Validate against the Well-Architected Framework
- Run admin enablement and walkthroughs
- Document the environment and operating model
- As-built documentation
- Admin training & runbooks
- 100% knowledge transfer
Clear boundaries, set up front
Out of scope
- ✕ Workload migration (scoped separately)
- ✕ Application re-architecture
- ✕ Ongoing managed operations
- ✕ Non-Azure cloud platforms
Key assumptions
- ✓ Azure subscription(s) available
- ✓ Microsoft Entra ID in place
- ✓ Owner/Contributor access provided
- ✓ Stakeholders available for design
Start on a strong foundation
Book a 30-minute intro call and we'll scope Azure Foundations to your environment.