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Techrupt Digital designs and deploys Azure landing zones aligned to Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework. Management groups, policy, identity, networking and logging are delivered as infrastructure as code your team owns and can change safely.
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Why it matters
A landing zone decides where workloads live, who can change them, how they reach each other and what gets logged. Get it right and new projects start in days with security already in place. Get it wrong and every migration drags through the same approval fights. We build new landing zones and fix existing ones, and we're based in Metro Vancouver, working with organizations across Canada and the US.
Management groups and subscriptions that match how you run the business, not how the first project happened to be set up.
Azure Policy guardrails, Defender for Cloud and role-based access that make the secure option the default one.
Hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN, private endpoints, DNS and connectivity to on-premises, sized for where you'll be in three years.
Deployed with Bicep or Terraform using Microsoft's landing zone accelerators and Azure Verified Modules, with pipelines to change it safely.
What we deliver
Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework defines eight design areas for a landing zone. We work through each one with you and record the decisions, so the design outlives the project.
The control plane everything else depends on.
Shared services that application teams build on.
Guardrails that apply automatically to every subscription.
Design guide
The design areas, greenfield versus brownfield, requirements for BC regulated organizations, and keeping the platform maintainable.
Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework breaks a landing zone into eight design areas. Each has decisions that are cheap to make early and expensive to change later:
We work through each area with your team and record the decisions and the reasons behind them, so the design survives staff changes and future audits.
A greenfield landing zone starts clean, which makes it the easiest case. Most organizations aren't there. They have subscriptions created project by project, networks that grew organically and permissions nobody wants to touch.
For brownfield environments we don't start over. We deploy the target management group structure and policies alongside what exists, use policy in audit mode to measure the gap, then move subscriptions and fix findings in order of risk, without taking running workloads offline.
Regulated organizations need the landing zone to prove compliance, not just support it. We restrict resource locations to Canada Central and Canada East with Azure Policy, set log retention to match your records obligations, and use Microsoft Defender for Cloud's regulatory compliance dashboard to track controls against standards such as CIS and NIST.
Azure also includes a built-in policy initiative for the Canadian federal Protected B profile, which many BC and Canadian public sector organizations use as a reference baseline. We document how the landing zone supports your privacy impact assessment under FIPPA, so the design and the paperwork stay in step.
A landing zone is a product, not a project. We deliver it as infrastructure as code in your repository, using Microsoft's landing zone accelerators and Azure Verified Modules, with pipelines that validate and deploy changes through pull requests.
That lets your team add subscriptions, change policies and adopt Microsoft's updates to the reference architecture safely, long after our engagement ends.
Most of the landing zones we review weren't designed badly. They were never designed at all, and grew one project at a time. The same problems come up again and again:
Each of these has a known fix, and none of them requires starting over. The order matters, though. We fix identity and access first, because it limits the damage anything else can do.
How we work
Every engagement starts with understanding your business. From there we plan, then deliver with senior Microsoft-certified consultants at every step.
STEP 01
You're the expert in your business. We learn your goals, constraints and current environment so we can recommend what will actually move the needle.
STEP 02
You get a clear plan with scope, timeline and costs, built by senior specialists, so you know exactly what you're getting before work begins.
STEP 03
Our certified team delivers, documents and hands over, with measurable results and support after go-live.
FAQ
An Azure landing zone is the pre-configured foundation of an Azure environment, covering subscriptions, identity, networking, security policy and monitoring, that workloads are deployed into. Microsoft defines it in the Cloud Adoption Framework across eight design areas. A good landing zone lets teams launch new workloads quickly while security and cost controls apply automatically.
Hub-and-spoke gives you more control and is often cheaper for a single region with a handful of spokes. Virtual WAN suits organizations with many branches, multiple regions or heavy site-to-site connectivity, because Microsoft manages the routing. We compare both for your requirements, and our article on hub-and-spoke versus Virtual WAN covers the trade-offs in detail.
Both work well, and Microsoft maintains landing zone accelerators and Azure Verified Modules for each. Choose Bicep if your team is Azure-only and wants Microsoft-native tooling. Choose Terraform if you manage other clouds or services too, or already have Terraform skills. We deliver in whichever your team will maintain.
Yes. Most of our landing zone work is brownfield. We assess what exists against the Cloud Adoption Framework, then fix the highest-risk gaps first, such as missing policy, flat networking or shared admin accounts, without disrupting running workloads.
We assign Azure Policy that only allows resources in Canadian regions, Canada Central and Canada East, at the management group level, so every subscription inherits it. Exceptions for global services are documented for your privacy and compliance review.
A greenfield landing zone using Microsoft's accelerators can be designed and deployed relatively quickly. Brownfield work takes longer because existing workloads have to keep running while we fix the foundation underneath them. We commit to a timeline in the proposal once we've seen your environment.
Landing zone builds are fixed-price once scoped, so you know the cost before you start. The scope depends on how many subscriptions and networks are involved, your compliance requirements and whether it's greenfield or brownfield.
Yes, just a smaller one. Even a handful of subscriptions benefits from management groups, baseline policy, central logging and sensible networking. Microsoft's accelerators can be scaled down, and starting with the right structure is far cheaper than retrofitting it once the environment grows.
Done well, it does the opposite. With subscription vending, teams request a new subscription through a pull request or a form and get one that already has networking, policy, access and monitoring in place, instead of waiting on a ticket queue.
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Book a free 30-minute call. We'll talk through your current Azure setup and whether a new landing zone or a targeted fix makes more sense.