Azure Landing Zone Review Assessment

Azure scales fast. Without a landing zone, it scales messy.

The IG CloudOps Azure Landing Zone Review Assessment helps you check whether your Azure subscriptions, identity, networking, policies, security controls and operating model are ready for production workloads.

AWS & Azure specialists
UK-based cloud engineers
CloudOps Platform included
Monitoring, cost & automation
Flexible professional services
Built for SaaS & cloud-first teams

Who it is for

  • Teams building or expanding in Azure
  • Organisations with multiple subscriptions
  • SaaS teams running production services on Azure
  • IT teams preparing for migration or modernisation
  • CTOs worried about governance, cost or security
  • Businesses that inherited an unmanaged Azure setup

What the assessment checks

SubscriptionsManagement groupsIdentity & accessAzure PolicyNetworkingSecurityMonitoringBackupCostOperations

Azure Landing Zone Review

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  1. 1.Are Azure subscriptions structured clearly by workload, environment or business function?

  2. 2.Are management groups used to organise governance at scale?

  3. 3.Are roles and privileged permissions reviewed regularly?

  4. 4.Is Microsoft Entra ID integrated cleanly with your access model?

  5. 5.Are Azure Policies used to enforce standards and prevent drift?

  6. 6.Are naming, tagging and resource standards defined?

  7. 7.Is networking designed clearly across VNets, subnets, peering, VPN or ExpressRoute where relevant?

  8. 8.Are NSGs, firewall rules and public exposure reviewed regularly?

  9. 9.Are Defender for Cloud or equivalent security findings reviewed and owned?

  10. 10.Are backups, recovery and business continuity processes tested?

  11. 11.Is Azure Monitor or equivalent configured for key services?

  12. 12.Are alerts routed to the right people with clear escalation?

  13. 13.Are costs reviewed by subscription, service, tag and owner?

  14. 14.Are deployment changes controlled through repeatable processes?

  15. 15.Is there clear ownership for Azure operations, incidents and improvement work?

Why Azure landing zones matter

A good landing zone makes everything that comes after cheaper, safer and faster to deliver.

Signs your Azure foundation needs review

Inconsistent naming, ad-hoc subscriptions, unowned alerts, drifting policies and unclear cost ownership.

What good Azure governance looks like

Clear subscription structure, Entra-integrated identity, enforced policy, tagging discipline and operational reporting.

CloudOps Platform

One Platform. All Your CloudOps.

The IG CloudOps Platform brings together monitoring, support, cost control, automation, security visibility and operational reporting across AWS, Azure and hybrid environments — so teams see what is happening, what is costing money, what is at risk and what needs fixing first.

Unified visibility

See AWS, Azure and hybrid environments in one place.

Monitoring & alerts

Actionable alerts routed to the people who can fix them.

Cost control

Identify waste, rightsize resources and protect margin.

Automation

Repeatable runbooks and operational tasks at scale.

Security visibility

Surface posture issues before they become incidents.

Operational reporting

Trends and KPIs your leadership team can act on.

FAQs

The foundational structure of subscriptions, identity, networking, policy and operations on Azure.

Not sure what to fix first?

Complete the assessment, get your score, then speak to an IG CloudOps engineer about the highest-impact next steps for your AWS, Azure or DevOps environment.