Data landing zones

Moving to the cloud can be a daunting task for a business. The Azure Cloud allows the provisioning of hundreds of unique services. Without the knowledge of an experienced architect, starting cloud-based projects can quickly become overwhelming. This counts for both greenfield and brownfield development.

Note

Greenfield development refers to projects built up from scratch, whereas brownfield development uses existing components of a solution to upgrade or revamp a solution.

To lower the barrier of businesses moving their data and infrastructure to the cloud, Azure provides landing zones, as part of the Microsoft CAF. A landing zone is a pre-composed set of services and configurations allowing for simple and fast migration. The architecture of these landing zones is the result of Microsoft’s experience with assisting in thousands of cloud migrations, making them a proven and robust approach. Landing zones can be leveraged in two ways, either starting...