EPAM Azure Landing Zone Implementation

Deploy a secure, scalable Azure Landing Zone foundation using Infrastructure as Code with EPAM’s end-to-end implementation program. Designed for cloud platform owners, enterprise architects, security leaders, and engineering teams, this engagement addresses fragmented governance, inconsistent identity and networking configuration, policy gaps, and manual Azure portal deployments. EPAM delivers a production-ready cloud foundation aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Azure Well-Architected Framework, enabling faster workload onboarding, stronger governance, and operational readiness from Day One.

What You Will Receive

• AI Citadel Governance Hub Landing Zone (Platform Landing Zone): A pre-configured Azure foundation including management group and subscription design, Azure Policy guardrails, Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), identity integration with Microsoft Entra ID, networking architecture, centralized monitoring with Azure Monitor, cost management baseline, and fully automated deployment using security-scanned Terraform modules and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines (zero manual portal steps).
• AI Citadel Agents Spoke Landing Zone (Application Landing Zone): Reusable application landing zone patterns for AI applications, agents, APIs, microservices, and enterprise workloads. Includes networking and security guardrails, policy-as-code libraries, validated Infrastructure as Code templates, onboarding pipelines, and deployment validation scripts to accelerate workload rollout with consistent governance.
• Sovereign Landing Zone (Optional): A landing zone variant aligned to data residency and regulatory requirements, including isolated identity, restricted connectivity, region pinning, encryption, logging, auditing, and policy enforcement. Delivered with Terraform modules, compliance documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks for regulated and public-sector environments.

Typical Implementation:

Stage 1 — Discovery & Envisioning

• Assess current Azure tenant, subscription structure, identity, networking, and governance maturity.
• Capture workload types (application, AI, regulated), compliance needs, and success metrics.
• Deliver assessment findings and prioritized implementation roadmap.

Stage 2 — Landing Zone Design

• Design Platform and Application Landing Zones aligned to CAF/WAF.
• Define Azure Policy sets, Azure RBAC model, network topology, tagging standards, and governance model.
• Finalize Terraform module structure and Azure DevOps CI/CD architecture.

Stage 3 — Build & Implementation

• Deploy the Platform Landing Zone using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Configure monitoring, logging, identity integration, and security baselines.
• Validate policy enforcement, access controls, connectivity, and operational readiness.

Stage 4 — Documentation, Enablement & Handover

• Deliver Infrastructure as Code repositories, policy libraries, CI/CD pipelines, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Conduct enablement sessions for platform, security, and engineering teams.
• Provide backlog and roadmap for scaling and onboarding additional workloads.

Expected Outcomes

• Production-ready Azure Landing Zone.
• Consistent governance and security across identity, networking, and policy.
• Zero manual Azure portal configuration steps through automated CI/CD.
• Accelerated onboarding of applications and AI workloads using reusable landing zone patterns.
• Operational readiness supported by documentation, automation artifacts, and validated modules.

EPAM’s Azure Landing Zone Implementation provides a standardized, automated Azure foundation that reduces risk, enforces governance, and enables scalable cloud and AI adoption across enterprise environments.