Landing zone?

Azure Landing Zone

There are 3 Microsoft foundation Azure architect sites which can assist you with your cloud governance, infrastructure, business management, applications, security and lot more.
It's best practice where you can land your application.

What is landing zone?
Basically whenever your client is ready to migrate from on premises to cloud platform at that time you should have some reference guide or framework in which you can fit your clients overall requirements whether it may be cost optimization, security, performance, monitoring anything.

• So Cloud Architectural Framework is collection of guidance and best practices.
• It helps you in cloud adoption journey
• CAF is lifecycle that Microsoft presents again with goal of helping you avoid pitfall in terms of cloud adoption.

*Pillars of landing zones in CAF *
Strategy
Plan
Ready
Migrate
Innovate
Secure
Manage
Govern
Organize

From above ready phase Cloud Adoption Framework of Azure the landing zone hosts Workload you plan to built in or migrate to cloud. It's not always necessary to follow all of the guidelines cause sometimes you have to go with proven practices.

Types of Landing Zones

1. Platform Landing Zone - Framing of your solution
2. Application Landing Zone - application or Workload related landing zone

You don't have to adopt them cause plenty of them are going to create lot more resources which you're not be using all the time.

Above diagram will give you reference for different landing zones.

What's wonderful about landing zone is that Microsoft is prioritizing them so work is going on they are being developed and lot many templates.
Different Landing Zone for hybrid cloud are given on git hub you can not follow all of these deployments cause some of them are way too complicated.

Idea is not only we can automate these template but also using all this to start our deployment from Landing zone architecture. We should bring more proven practices.

There is another framework
Azure Well Architecture Framework(WAF)
These are pillars that drive architectural excellence at fundamental level of Workload.
CAF design your overall strategy.
WAF is where you get into Workload.

WAF pillars

• Realiability
• Security
• Cost Optimization
• Operational Excellence
• Performance Efficiency

Third framework is
Azure Architecture Center
This is center piece of Azure architecture with reference. What you have here is opportunity to combine our best practices of CAF and WAF Landing Zone.
In this framework you can search for references which has already been deployed or developed by proven practices.
Exa. Go for azure openai architecture in landing zone

You can have Azure Landing Zone for tenant deployment, openai reference.
If you're deploying Azure Landing Zone template from github best go for the creator who has created this, in right panel check activities.

I think best practices are good but I would like to chose proven practices here.