Cloud Foundation
Secure foundations for enterprise cloud.
Establish Azure landing zones that give application teams clear subscription boundaries, secure connectivity and enforceable governance. The foundation covers identity, network topology, policy, migration controls and cost ownership.
Problems to solve
- Subscriptions are provisioned inconsistently, with unclear ownership and different security baselines.
- Policy exceptions, privileged access and network paths are difficult to review across teams.
- Migration teams discover DNS, identity, connectivity or dependency gaps late in cutover planning.
- Cloud spend lacks accountable owners, budgets and a path to investigate cost anomalies.
Capabilities
- Azure Landing Zones, management group hierarchy and subscription vending.
- Azure Policy initiatives, assignments, exemptions and compliance reporting.
- Microsoft Entra identity, RBAC design and privileged access boundaries.
- Hub-spoke or Virtual WAN connectivity, Private Link, Private Endpoints and Private DNS.
- Security and governance baselines, migration planning and FinOps controls.
Architecture concerns
- Place management groups and subscriptions around policy scope, billing, ownership and operational boundaries.
- Define how identity, emergency access, workload roles and policy exemptions are approved and audited.
- Choose IP address allocation and routing; plan private DNS zone ownership, forwarding and cross-network resolution.
- Decide which services use private endpoints, where inspection and egress controls sit, and how logs are retained.
- Map migration dependencies, landing-zone readiness and budget alerts to accountable workload owners.
Typical deliverables
- Current-state findings, target landing-zone diagram and architecture decisions.
- Versioned Terraform or Bicep for management groups, policy, identity and network foundations.
- Deployment and validation workflows, policy exemption process and operational runbooks.
- Migration sequence with dependency checkpoints, monitoring ownership and cost-control configuration.
Related engagement: Azure Landing Zone Accelerator.