Azure Landing Zone Checklist
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Successfully build and operate Azure Landing Zones
This checklist provides a complete guide to deploying Azure Cloud securely and efficiently in your organisation. Landing Zones enable the automation of basic security measures for each Azure subscription, while cloud users can only access and work with the services for which they are qualified. How to structure the organisation within the cloud platform, comply with relevant protocols, manage permissions and track monthly billing for cloud tenants is covered in Azure Landing Zone Essentials.
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Target Audience: Platform Engineers & Enterprise Architects
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Implementation of essential security measures for Azure Subscriptions
Scale Azure effectively and easily
Clear roadmap for your Azure Landing Zone
Step by step to your Azure Landing Zone
Outline
The Azure Landing Zone Essentials checklist serves as an indispensable resource for businesses planning to get started in the Azure Cloud. With do’s and don’ts for each critical aspect of the Azure Landing Zone, as well as a status section to track progress and planning, this checklist is designed to manage the complexities of a secure and effective cloud deployment. From defining responsibilities to managing security configurations and costs, the guide provides a comprehensive roadmap tailored to Azure Cloud implementation success.
Summary
- Security and consistency: Ensure centralised requirements for secure scaling within the organisation through landing zones.
- Shared responsibility model: understanding shared responsibility between the Cloud Foundation team and the application team, the key to a secure and efficient Cloud Foundation.
- Resource hierarchy: Enables clear workload isolation and policy enforcement through a well-implemented resource hierarchy.
- Security settings and geographical restrictions: Implement standard security settings, including service restrictions and geographical restrictions.
- Transparency and traceability: collection and provision of relevant protocols for auditing purposes (audit logs)
- Access rights and compliance: Alignment of processes with company policies, decisions on access rights to cloud tenants and digital assets.
- Billing reports: Provide monthly billing reports for cloud tenants to the application teams, detailing all costs for the use of cloud resources.
Ebook: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Landing Zones (2023)
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The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Landing Zones (2023)
Embark on your journey to cloud adaptation with our comprehensive eBook: “The Ultimate Landing Zone Guide”. This guide serves as a strategic roadmap for implementing Cloud Landing Zones using key services like AWS and Azure. It offers essential insights into efficient operation techniques and practical advice for scaling your cloud deployment.
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Target Group: Platform Engineers & Enterprise Architects
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Why do you need Cloud Landing Zones?
What building blocks make up a Landing Zone?
How to operate and scale Landing Zones?
What is a Cloud Landing Zone?
Outline
Cloud Landing Zones serve as a bridge, facilitating scalable and cost-effective application of five core governance functions. They ensure a consistent, as-code, configuration of cloud environments for application teams, reducing the complexities of managing diverse cloud workloads.
Without a Landing Zone in place, scaling cloud adoption can quickly spiral out of control, especially beyond a few application teams. While the advantages of a Landing Zone primarily come into play when scaling cloud adoption, it’s best to commence building a Landing Zone from day one of your cloud journey.
In many organizations setting out on their cloud journey, expertise required to build and run cloud applications is rare and unevenly spread. Attracting new talent or building these skills via training takes time and effort. Given these constraints, organizations must adopt a cloud operating model that sets them up for successful migration to the cloud.
Summary
- Discover the role of Landing Zones in enabling application teams to adopt the cloud. Explore their role in governance functions such as tenant management, IAM, security and compliance, cost control, and the service ecosystem.
- Dive into the architecture of Landing Zones, and see how application teams can deploy their workloads on the cloud in a tailored manner.
- Learn about best practices for adopting a cloud operating model with our Landing Zone Guide. Gain tactical advice for delivering the first tailored Landing Zones, including how to prioritize cloud use cases, evaluate workload types, and assess connectivity requirements.
- Delve into an in-depth exploration of different use-case tailored Landing Zones, such as cloud-native, lift and shift, container platform, and data science. This includes a focus on building blocks, capabilities, and best practices for each type.