A landing zone designed deliberately, not guessed at.

Subscription/account hierarchy, management groups, and governance structured before workloads pile on — or retrofitted cleanly if they already have.

Landing Zone Account Hierarchy Governance Tagging Strategy

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Cross-platform

What Cloud Foundation covers

Cloud Foundation is the base layer any environment needs before anything else is trustworthy: a landing zone with a real subscription/account hierarchy, naming and tagging standards, network topology, and policy guardrails baked in from day one — not bolted on after resources already exist. This applies whether that landing zone is built on Azure, AWS, or GCP; the framework and discipline are the same even though the native tooling differs.

On Microsoft Azure

How we deliver this on Microsoft Azure

The detail below is Azure-specific. As other platforms come online, this same page will show the equivalent approach for whichever platform you select.

Subscription hierarchy, management groups, and governance structured before workloads pile on — or retrofitted cleanly if they already have.

Subscription design Management groups Governance Cloud Adoption Framework

Signals

This is likely relevant if…

!Subscriptions and management groups were created ad hoc, with no hierarchy

!No one can explain how workloads map to management groups or policy scope

!You're not following Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework, or aren't sure if you are

!Every new subscription means re-deciding structure from scratch

!Governance exists on paper but isn't enforced through the actual subscription design

!You're planning a large migration and have nowhere solid to land it

How we work

New solution, or fix what you have

Tell us which situation you're in — the consultation is scoped differently depending on the answer.

Path A — Solution design

Nothing's in place yet

You're standing up Azure for the first time, or planning a large migration and need a landing zone to land it in.

Management group and subscription hierarchy designed against CAF
Landing zone architecture matched to your organization's scale
Policy and governance scope defined from the start

Path B — Fix / enhance

Something exists but isn't working

A landing zone sort of exists, but it grew organically and doesn't match CAF guidance anymore.

Audit of current subscription and management group structure
Gap analysis against Cloud Adoption Framework guidance
Retrofit plan that doesn't require tearing everything down

Scope

What's included in the Cloud Foundation / Landing Zone consultation

Management group hierarchy review or design
Subscription vending model appropriate to your scale
CAF alignment gap analysis
Landing zone architecture diagram and documentation
Policy scope and inheritance plan
Written roadmap prioritized by risk and effort
30-minute walkthrough call to review findings

Also relevant

Related Azure domains

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