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Cloud Architecture & Landing Zones

Start on a secure, well-governed foundation from day one.

  • Consistent, compliant environments
  • Faster onboarding of new workloads
  • Clear cost and access controls
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Overview

What this means for your business

An Azure landing zone is the foundation every workload builds on. We design and deploy landing zones that bring together identity, networking, security, governance and cost controls, all defined as code, so your environment is consistent, repeatable and ready to grow.

Technical insights

What we deliver

Landing zone designManagement groups, subscriptions and platform services sized to your needs.
Network architectureHub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN, private endpoints and hybrid connectivity.
Identity and accessMicrosoft Entra ID, role-based access and Privileged Identity Management.
Policy and governanceAzure Policy, tagging standards and guardrails that scale.
Infrastructure as codeBicep or Terraform, so every change is reviewed and repeatable.
Well-Architected reviewsReliability, security, cost, performance and operations checks.
How it works

From first step to lasting value

1Requirements
2Design
3Build as code
4Validate
5Hand over
By the numbers

Why it matters

84%

Of organisations say they struggle to manage cloud spend.

Source: Flexera State of the Cloud, 2025
>50%

Of enterprises expected to use industry cloud platforms by 2028.

Source: Gartner, November 2023
43%

Of UK businesses reported a cyber breach or attack in the last 12 months.

Source: UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/26

Industry figures from the sources shown. Vendor-commissioned studies model composite organisations, so your own results will vary.

Technology

Tools and platforms we use

  • Azure Landing Zones
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Azure Virtual WAN
  • Azure Firewall
  • Bicep
  • Terraform
FAQs

Common questions

What is a landing zone?

It is the pre-configured foundation of your Azure environment: identity, networking, security, policy and management, ready for workloads to move in.

We already use Azure. Is it too late?

No. We can review your existing environment against best practice and evolve it into a landing zone without disrupting running workloads.

Bicep or Terraform?

Both work well. We recommend the one that best fits your team's skills and tooling.

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