Azure Landing Zones
Understand what a landing zone is, explore the conceptual architecture for enterprise-scale landing zones, and deploy a landing zone using the Azure portal accelerator.
What Is a Landing Zone?
An Azure Landing Zone is a pre-configured Azure environment that provides the foundational infrastructure and governance capabilities that all workloads in an organisation can build on. Think of it as the 'runway' that workloads land on when they arrive in Azure. A landing zone is not a single resource — it is a collection of subscriptions, management groups, networking, identity, policies, and monitoring configurations that implement an organisation's standards.
Why Landing Zones Exist
Without a landing zone, each team deploying to Azure creates its own networking, security controls, and governance independently — leading to inconsistency, security gaps, and ungoverned costs. A landing zone solves this by establishing shared platform services (connectivity hub, identity, monitoring) once, then allowing application teams to deploy their workloads into pre-approved, compliant environments with guardrails already in place.