Landing Zone Assessment, Design & Build
A secure, governed, multi-account foundation for cloud adoption — built right the first time.
Most cloud problems don't actually start with the workload — they start with the foundation underneath it. Accounts get spun up without structure, permissions get handed out ad hoc, logs end up scattered across half a dozen places, and finance can't say with any confidence which team is driving the bill. A Cloud Landing Zone closes that gap before it becomes a production incident or an audit finding: a standardized, governed environment where identity, networking, security, logging, compliance, and cost controls are designed in from day one, instead of bolted on after the fact.
OUR NUMBERS
8
Governance domains covered end to end
5
Design principles the foundation is built around
6
Delivery phases, assess to operate
Minutes
To provision a new, fully governed account
Why It Matters
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- Accounts get created without structure, ownership, or guardrails — and nobody notices until something breaks.
- Missing account-level controls turn small misconfigurations into full-blown security incidents.
- When audit season arrives, the logs are scattered or missing entirely, and compliance teams are left empty-handed.
- Without shared tagging and cost ownership, nobody can say with certainty which team is actually driving cloud spend.
Platform Framework
Seven building blocks sit underneath every deployment, from the first use case to day-to-day operations.
Org & Account Model
Accounts organized by team, project, or environment, with naming and labeling so ownership is never in question.
Identity & Access
SSO/federation, role-based access, privileged-access management, and break-glass controls for emergencies.
Network & Connectivity
Hub-and-spoke or mesh topology, DNS, routing, and secure connectivity back to on-prem or other clouds.
Security Baseline
Encryption, key management, threat detection, and continuous vulnerability and posture management.
Policy & Governance
Guardrails and policy-as-code, with compliance evidence collected automatically and a clear exception path.
Operations & Observability
Centralized logs, metrics, incident handling, backup, DR, and runbooks that stay current.
Automation & DevOps
Infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD, environment vending, and reusable golden patterns.
FinOps
Budgets, cost allocation, rightsizing, commitment strategy, and showback built in from day one.
Five Principles We Design Around
These aren't abstract values — they're the rules every landing zone build actually gets checked against.
1
Secure by Default
Every new environment inherits baseline controls and mandatory telemetry automatically.
2
Separation of Duties
Platform, security, shared-services, and workload teams each operate in a clearly scoped lane.
3
Everything as Code
Accounts, network, policy, and guardrails are provisioned through repeatable pipelines, not tickets.
4
Centralized Visibility
Logs, alerts, cost, and compliance posture all roll up into common dashboards.
5
Business-Aligned Governance
Controls tighten where risk is high and stay light where teams need to move fast.
How We Deliver It
Assess
Current-state review, account audit, requirements gathering, risk assessment.
Design
Account structure, network topology, security policies, naming conventions.
Build
Foundation accounts stood up, networking configured, identity and SSO wired in.
Secure
Threat detection, security posture, policy guardrails, centralized logging switched on.
Migrate
Workloads moved into new accounts; connectivity and access validated end to end.
Operate
Monitoring dashboards, cost alerts, runbooks, and team handover.
What's Included
The engagement covers the full path from assessment to a documented, handed-over foundation:
Existing cloud environment assessment and landing zone gap analysis
Account/subscription/project structure design
Identity and access management design
Network architecture design
Security baseline configuration
Logging and monitoring setup
Governance and policy controls
Backup and DR foundation
Cost management controls
Automation using Infrastructure as Code
Business Benefits
- New accounts provisioned in minutes through an account factory — not requested and waited on for weeks.
- Misconfigurations get blocked before they happen, not discovered after an incident.
- Compliance evidence is collected automatically, so audit prep stops being a fire drill.
- Every team gets full cost visibility from day one — no more guessing who's driving the bill.
- A secure, standardized foundation that lowers the risk baked into every workload you deploy afterward.
Where This Applies
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- Standing up governance from day one on a brand-new cloud account.
- Cleaning up and restructuring an existing environment that has sprawled beyond control.
- Getting audit-ready for ISO, SOC 2, PCI, or HIPAA.
- Laying the foundation before a larger migration or modernization program begins.
- Onboarding multiple teams with self-service provisioning and built-in audit reporting.
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