Overview

Azure Landing Zone is the result of a multi-subscription environment focused on Scale, Security, Governance, Networking, and Identity & Access Management. Our Azure architects will conduct a series of workshops covering the 8 design areas of Azure Landing Zone and will design, followed by the implementation of a secure, scalable, compliant, and cost-effective Azure foundation.

What Mismo Systems offers

Azure Landing Zone Design workshops (1 week)

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 customer about each design area, understand the business and technical requirements, and assist the customer in reaching design decisions and considerations.

Azure Landing Zone Design (1 week)

After conducting all the design workshops, we analyze all the business and technical requirements, key decisions, and considerations and prepare a detailed Azure Landing Zone design document that includes the following:

Azure Billing and Microsoft Entra tenant

Azure billing offer and subscription purchasing model (EA, MCA, CSP)
Define Microsoft Entra tenant

Identity and Access Management

Hybrid identity with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID or Microsoft Entra ID
Landing zone identity and access management
Application identity and access management

Resource Organization

Management Group hierarchy and subscription structure
Naming and Tagging Standards
Resource Groups

Network Topology and Connectivity

Traditional Hub and Spoke or Virtual WAN network topology
IP Addressing
Connectivity to Azure
Connectivity to Azure PaaS services
Connectivity to other clouds providers
Limit cross-tenant private endpoint connections
Inbound and Outbound internet connectivity
Network segmentation
Network encryption and inspection

Security

Secure privileged access
Encryption and key management
Service Enablement Framework
Security control mapping

Management

Inventory and visibility
Monitor Azure platform landing zone components
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Operational compliance considerations
Workload management and monitoring

Governance

Track costs
Optimize cloud investment with Cost Management
Create and manage budgets
Monitor usage and spending
Keep Azure landing zones up to date
Azure Policies

Platform automation and DevOps

Platform automation
Subscription vending
DevOps considerations
Development strategy

Azure Landing Zone Implementation (2 week)

Once the Azure Landing Zone design document is reviewed and signed off, we implement it following Microsoft recommended practices.

Deliverables

Up to 6 design workshops to present, discuss and explore Azure design proposals
Azure Landing Zone design documentation
Azure Landing Zone implementation as per the finalized design
No Resource/Application creation or Migration is included in this project

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