Landing Zone

Set solid cloud foundations with a production-ready Azure environment designed, built and handed over by Claranet's cloud experts using Infrastructure-as-Code.

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Challenges we solve

Getting cloud foundations right from the start prevents costly rework and security gaps as your environment scales.

Cloud adoption without a plan

Teams spin up cloud resources to move fast, but without proper governance, subscriptions, and guardrails in place, the environment quickly becomes unmanageable and insecure.

Security and compliance from day one

Retrofitting identity management, network segmentation and policy enforcement is far harder and more expensive than building them into the foundation from the outset.

Complex networking decisions

Hub-and-spoke topologies, hybrid connectivity, firewall placement and ExpressRoute design require specialist knowledge to get right — mistakes are costly to undo.

Lack of cloud-scale experience

Understanding management groups, subscription structures, RBAC and Azure Policy requires experience of operating cloud at scale that most organisations are still building.

What is a Landing Zone?

A Landing Zone is everything you need to stand up a fully functional, production-ready cloud environment. It provides the essential building blocks — identity, networking, security, governance, monitoring and automation — configured in line with best practices so your organisation can safely grow and innovate within clear boundaries.

Claranet's Landing Zone service begins with a series of business and IT workshops to understand your objectives and current estate. From there, we design a tailored architecture and deploy it through a fully project-managed implementation using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), ensuring the configuration is managed, repeatable and scalable.

Once established, your environment is provisioned and ready to accept workloads — fully monitored, backed up and governed. Getting the basics like management groups, subscription structure and RBAC right from the start prevents time-consuming changes down the line.

Key Benefits

Production-ready Azure environment from day one
Best-practice security, governance and compliance baked in
Infrastructure-as-Code for repeatable, scalable deployments
Tailored architecture from collaborative workshops
Full project management across all phases
Documentation and handover for your operations team

Claranet cloud credentials

6,500+ Managed service customers

43 Data centres across Europe

3 Deployment packages to choose from

IaC Infrastructure-as-Code delivered

Deployment packages

Three tiers to match your organisation's size, complexity and customisation requirements.

Core

Migration ready

A baseline Azure Landing Zone for smaller environments ready to start migrating workloads into cloud.

Standard subscription structure
Hub & spoke networking
Centralised firewall
Single region deployment
Basic RBAC and Azure Policy
Azure Bastion & Key Vault
Log Analytics workspace

Advanced

Enterprise

Fully customised

For enterprise-scale organisations with precise requirements across security, networking and DevOps.

Everything in Advanced, plus:
Virtual WAN
Microsoft Sentinel SIEM
DDoS protection
Custom backup solution
Subscription vending templates
Extended workshop programme

Technical capabilities

Every Landing Zone covers the essential pillars of a well-architected cloud environment.

Azure best-practice architecture

Management groups, subscription structure, hub-and-spoke networking and ExpressRoute/VPN connectivity designed following Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework guidance.

Security and governance

Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Network Security Groups, DDoS protection and resource locks configured to enforce guardrails from day one.

Identity and access management

Azure Active Directory integration, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), hybrid identity strategy and Active Directory Domain Controllers (Advanced and Enterprise packages).

Management and monitoring

Log Analytics workspace, Azure Monitor alerting, Azure Automation Account and Azure Bastion configured to give your operations team full visibility from go-live.

Compliance and naming standards

Custom tagging and naming conventions, regulatory compliance controls and Azure Policy enforcement ensure consistency and auditability as your environment grows.

Business continuity

Multi-region disaster recovery, tiered Azure Backup solutions and availability configurations ensure your cloud environment is resilient from the foundation up.