Landing Zone Readiness Assessment
Determine whether your Azure platform can onboard production, data, and AI workloads consistently without rebuilding governance, networking, security, and operations for every subscription.
Can Azure scale without losing control?
This assessment is for CIOs, cloud platform leaders, enterprise architects, security teams, and Cloud Centers of Excellence before a major migration, data-platform or AI initiative, new region, merger, regulated workload, or rapid subscription growth. It is useful when teams provision Azure differently, onboarding is slow, inherited policy is unclear, or leadership cannot tell whether the current foundation is ready for production scale.
We review the platform and application landing-zone decisions relevant to your roadmap: billing and Microsoft Entra tenant alignment, management groups and subscription design, identity and RBAC, network topology and hybrid connectivity, DNS and private endpoints, Azure Policy and exemptions, security tooling, monitoring and management, cost controls, platform automation, infrastructure as code, subscription vending, and workload onboarding for production, sandbox, data, and AI scenarios.
You receive an Azure Landing Zone Readiness Report, current-state and target-state architecture, design-decision register, management-group and subscription model, policy and exemption matrix, connectivity and operations gap analysis, prioritized backlog, and phased implementation roadmap. Sample findings may include subscriptions at tenant root, inconsistent diagnostics, policy assignments without owners, overlapping address space, manual subscription creation, missing platform separation, or AI workloads with no approved connectivity pattern.
Our process
Turn platform gaps into a deployable target state
We compare the current platform with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework design areas and the organization’s workload pipeline. Each recommendation identifies the affected scope, business reason, architecture decision, dependency, owner, and automation path so the landing zone can evolve without stopping delivery.
Define adoption demand and platform boundaries
We identify planned migrations, regions, regulatory zones, workload types, availability needs, data and AI services, hybrid dependencies, team ownership, and delivery timelines. Inputs include tenant and billing structure, subscription inventory, architecture diagrams, network and IPAM plans, policies, operational standards, infrastructure-as-code repositories, and upcoming workload demand.
Adoption context
Assess governance and subscription design
We review management-group hierarchy, subscription placement and limits, RBAC delegation, Azure Policy initiatives, exemptions, resource organization, naming, tagging, budgets, security baselines, and whether platform and application landing zones have clear ownership. We also evaluate subscription vending and sandbox patterns.
Governance review
Validate connectivity and operations
We examine hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN design, hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, firewall and egress, private endpoints, DDoS decisions, regional resiliency, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud onboarding, backup, updates, incident response, and platform support responsibilities.
Platform validation
Sequence automation and workload onboarding
We rank gaps by delivery blocker, security and compliance impact, scale risk, effort, and dependency. The roadmap separates urgent guardrail corrections from platform landing-zone deployment, connectivity modernization, policy as code, monitoring standardization, subscription vending, and application landing-zone accelerators for data and AI.
Implementation roadmap
OUR WORK
Typical duration and participants
A focused assessment typically takes three to four weeks after access and scope are confirmed. Core participants usually include an executive sponsor, cloud platform architect, Microsoft Entra and security lead, network architect, operations or SRE lead, FinOps representative, DevOps or infrastructure-as-code owner, and representatives for upcoming workloads.
OUR WORK
Evidence and access required
Provide tenant and billing details, management-group and subscription exports, Azure Policy assignments and exemptions, RBAC data, network and IPAM diagrams, DNS and firewall standards, monitoring and security configuration, cost and tagging standards, infrastructure-as-code repositories, pipeline documentation, workload roadmap, regulatory requirements, and read-only access or agreed exports.
OUR WORK
Follow-on project matched to the finding
The next phase may be an Azure platform landing-zone accelerator deployment, management-group and policy remediation, connectivity foundation build, infrastructure-as-code modernization, monitoring and security baseline rollout, subscription vending implementation, application landing-zone patterns for data and AI, or managed platform operations.