CAF Landing Zones Implementation
Cloud Adoption & Infrastructure Automation
Motivation
While each cloud platform differs in tooling and ecosystem, all three follow the same core principle: building a secure, compliant, and scalable cloud foundation through standardized landing zones tailored to enterprise needs.
This approach enables organizations to give development teams maximum autonomy within defined guardrails, while ensuring governance, cost control, and operational consistency across the cloud environment.
This page brings together three complementary landing zone offerings: CAF Landing Zones Implementation for Azure, AWS Landing Zones, and STACKIT Landing Zones.
What we bring
We bring over 20 years of experience in enterprise software development and operations for many of the world’s largest enterprises, combined with deep practical expertise in cloud adoption frameworks and landing zone implementations across multiple platforms. This results in a landing zone architecture that can accelerate your cloud journey on Azure, AWS, or STACKIT.
We understand the needs of development teams and what it takes to implement a solid and maintainable landing zone structure with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance. We also provide access to source code and proven landing zone implementations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
During an intensive hackathon week involving all stakeholders, we adapt the blueprint to your organization’s unique requirements. At the end, you have a rock-solid and scalable cloud foundation with essential and advanced capabilities in place:
- Centralized identity, organizational structure, permissions, and policy management
- Secure network foundation with segmented hub-and-spoke or equivalent platform-native connectivity patterns
- Hybrid connectivity to on-premises environments where required
- Private service connectivity and DNS integration for secure access to managed platform services
- Central platform logging, auditing, and observability
- Shared platform services and reusable baseline components
- Preconfigured landing zones for maximum developer velocity
What you need
To make the best use of this offer and ensure a fast and efficient start, you will need:
- An existing cloud tenancy, organization, or commercial contract for your chosen platform
- Availability of your experts, such as the future cloud platform team, network, DNS, IAM, security, and related stakeholders
What you get
This offer is typically delivered as a focused 5-day engagement.
01 Kickoff
- Review of the current state of your cloud journey
- Stakeholder management
- Introduction and handover of the PRODYNA landing zone blueprint
- Establishment of the core Infrastructure as Code process using Terraform
Deliverables
Ready-to-go Git repository and working IaC process for deploying to your chosen cloud platform.
02 Governance
- Design and implementation of the governance structure, for example management groups, organizations, folders, or accounts
- Mapping and rollout of baseline guardrails, policies, and access models on the appropriate hierarchy levels
Deliverables
Basic cloud governance structure implemented with Terraform.
03 Management& Connectivity
- Setup of central management structures for collecting platform-wide information such as audit events and logs to enable event-based, scheduled, and manual platform automation and dashboarding
- Review and refinement of connectivity requirements, including network topology, on-premises connection, and DNS
Deliverables
- Central management resources
- Target connectivity architecture
04 Connectivity
We implement the first shared connectivity foundation using platform-appropriate building blocks such as:
- Central network area, hub, or transit construct
- Firewall and traffic control in a basic rule set
- VPN or equivalent hybrid connectivity setup
- DNS forwarding and service discovery integration
- Private service connectivity and related DNS configuration
Deliverables
- Fully functional shared connectivity foundation
- Reusable Terraform modules to roll out additional regions in minutes
05 First Landing Zone
We set up and connect the first landing zone:
- First workload environment connected to the shared connectivity foundation
- Central auditing
- Ingress and egress traffic filtering
- Private DNS and name resolution integrated with cloud and on-premises environments where required
- Preconfigured core services secured through private or restricted connectivity
- Pre-provisioned identities and principals for automation and monitoring
Deliverables
- Ready-to-go landing zone
- Reusable Terraform modules to roll out new landing zones in minutes
Quick facts
Duration: 5 days intensive hackathon
Benefits
- Reduced risk: Our Terraform blueprint reflects years of project experience and iterative improvement across many implementations.
- Rapid start: The Terraform blueprint typically covers more than 80% of common requirements, so the main task is adapting it to your organization’s needs.
- Get it right the first time: We have implemented cloud architectures and landing zones for many enterprise customers and know the strengths and trade-offs of different approaches.
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Lukas Wolter
