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Sedat SALMAN
Sedat SALMAN

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Azure in 60 Seconds: What is a Landing Zone?

1. Foundation of Your Cloud

A Landing Zone is the starting architecture for your Azure environment.

It defines how everything will be deployed, secured, and managed.

2. Not Just a Subscription

It’s more than creating a subscription.

It includes identity, networking, governance, and security baseline.

3. Identity and Access Design

Controls who can do what across the environment.

Use Entra ID, RBAC, and managed identities.

4. Network Architecture

Defines how resources communicate securely.

Hub-spoke model, private endpoints, DNS, and segmentation.

5. Governance and Policies

Ensures consistency and compliance.

Naming standards, tagging, policies, and role separation.

6. Security Baseline

Built-in controls from day one.

Logging, monitoring, threat protection, and secure configurations.

7. Management and Monitoring

Central visibility and control.

Log Analytics, alerts, and operational dashboards.

8. Designed for Scale

Landing Zone is built for future growth.

Supports multiple subscriptions, environments, and regions.

9. Workload Ready

Applications are deployed on top of the Landing Zone.

It prepares the environment before any workload goes live.

10. Based on Best Practices

Usually aligned with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).

Standardized, repeatable, and enterprise-ready.

Simple View:
Landing Zone = Your Azure blueprint for secure, scalable, and governed deployments from day one.

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