Azure Landing Zone: 2-Weeks Assessment & Gap Analysis

Overview

Azure Landing Zone is the result of a multi-subscription environment focused on Scale, Security, Governance, Networking, and Identity & Access Management.

Our Azure Architect will conduct a series of workshops covering the 8 design areas of Azure Landing Zone and assess the existing Azure environment, identify gaps, and provide recommendations based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure enterprise-scale landing zone architecture.

Why to use Azure Landing Zone?

It's easy to start your cloud journey, however if not planned properly, it won't take long before your cloud environment becomes uncontrolled, insecure, and difficult to manage.

Azure Landing Zones are like the architectural blueprints for your Microsoft cloud environment, meaning they ensure that your cloud environment is built for the long haul. Its best practices result from Microsoft’s warranted efforts in providing a secure, scalable, highly available, compliant and cost-effective cloud environment.

What Mismo Offers?

We help you assess your existing Azure environment and identify gaps around identity, networking, security, governance etc. and identify gaps in it to make it secure, scalable, and compliant Azure foundation with Azure Landing Zone that enables application migration, modernization, and innovation at enterprise-scale in Azure.

Discovery and Assessment

We conduct a series of workshops around the following 8 design areas of Azure Landing Zones:

• Azure Billing and Microsoft Entra tenant: focuses on your Azure billing offer and the association of that offer with a Microsoft Entra tenant.
• Identity and Access Management: Focuses on the identity and access management solution that best suits your Azure environment.
• Resource Organization: Focuses on establishing a consistent pattern for organizing the resources you deploy on the cloud for - naming, tagging, membership design, and management group design.
• Network Topology and Connectivity: Focuses on how secure and effective connectivity is to other Azure services, external users, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Security and Compliance: Equipped with encryption, network firewalls, and layered access controls, Azure Landing Zones represent a comprehensive approach to security, ensuring your data is secure.
• Management: focuses on understanding requirements and implementing those requirements consistently across all workloads in a cloud environment.
• Governance: Focuses on establishing tools and measures for effective governance, including cost management, management baseline, Azure policy, Azure advisor.
• Platform Automation and DevOps: Focuses on automation and using infrastructure as code for resource provisioning, management, and operations, etc.

During these workshops we educate the client about each design area and assess the cloud environment surrounding it.

Gap Analysis Recommendations

• We analyze existing Azure environments following Azure Landing Zone best practices and key design principles across 8 design areas
• We document the Identified gaps, recommendations and remediations

Notes

• At the end of this Azure Landing Zone assessment activity, Mismo architect will deliver Gap analysis and Recommendations Report.
• We have another offering for implementation of Azure Landing Zone on Azure Marketplace.