altitudes® Cloud · Platform · AI Amsterdam · Rotterdam --:--
[SERVICE]FOUNDATION4–6 weeks (Kickstarter), 8–14 weeks (custom)
[02] / SERVICE — CLOUD LANDING ZONES

A landing zone real teams can actually use.

A landing zone is the foundation for safe, repeatable cloud usage. We design and implement landing zones with identity, network, security guardrails, logging, monitoring and automation built for real teams, real workloads, and AI-ready foundations from day one.

[01] / CAPABILITIES _

What's in a landing zone.

This is the blueprint — a hub-spoke multi-account structure where governance, security, and workloads each live in their own account.

[FIG.02 / LANDING ZONE · TOPOLOGY] FOUR ACCOUNTS · ONE HUB
  • [01] / IDENTITY

    IAM & access control

    Centralised identity, SSO, role design, break-glass procedures, audit. AWS Identity Center or Entra ID.

  • [02] / STRUCTURE

    Account & subscription model

    Multi-account or multi-subscription with clear blast-radius boundaries. Production, non-production, security, audit, sandbox.

  • [03] / NETWORK

    Network foundations

    Hub-and-spoke or shared-services, transit gateway, peering, DNS, egress control. Routed for cost as well as security.

  • [04] / GUARDRAILS

    Security guardrails & policy

    SCPs, Azure Policy, baseline controls, AI-aware guardrails (data egress, model access). Policy-as-code where it matters.

  • [05] / VISIBILITY

    Logging & monitoring baseline

    Centralised logs, CloudTrail or Azure Activity, foundational metrics, alerting. The starting point for full observability.

  • [06] / AUTOMATION

    Terraform-based automation

    Infrastructure as code from day one. Modules, environments, CI/CD pipelines, documented onboarding paths.

[02] HOW WE RUN IT _

How we run a landing-zone engagement.

From audit to handoff4–6 weeks (Kickstarter), 8–14 weeks (custom)

Built-in compliance from day one: every lime cell is a control the Kickstarter delivers without a single manual checkbox.

[FIG.03 / LANDING ZONE · COMPLIANCE COVERAGE] TEN CONTROLS · FOUR FRAMEWORKS
[01] / AUDIT

45-minute audit.

Three questions about your current setup. We send a written summary either way.

⏱ 45 min
[02] / DESIGN

Reference architecture, 1 week.

We map your constraints to a paved-road template. Documented, costed, signed off by your security lead.

⏱ 1 wk
[03] / BUILD

Implementation, 4–6 weeks.

Six engineers. Terraform-first. Daily standup if you want it, weekly written update either way.

⏱ 4–6 wks
[04] / HANDOFF

Your team takes the keys.

Runbook, onboarding docs, IaC repo, the next ten things to do. We leave when you can fire us without it hurting.

⏱ 1 wk
[RELATED]PACKAGED SOLUTIONCLOUD KICKSTARTER

Cloud Kickstarter Package.

Cloud foundation assessment, landing zone design, initial implementation. Security & governance baseline, Terraform automation, monitoring, documentation. Outcome: a working cloud foundation your teams can safely build on.

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Questions we get asked.

[01] We already have a landing zone. Can you improve it? +

Yes. We frequently take over partial implementations. The Excellence & Benchmarking service is often the right entry point: assess what's there, decide what stays.

[02] AWS or Azure? +

Both. We go deep on each. Hybrid AWS+Azure is also common; we design the identity, network and policy bridges between them.

[03] What about GCP? +

On request. We've shipped two GCP landing zones and prefer to be honest about depth. If GCP is your primary cloud, we'll tell you whether we're the right team.

[04] Will it pass an audit? +

Yes. Controls evidence is the first thing we design, not the last. Evidence packs for DORA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 engagements are part of the delivery.

[05] What does AI-ready actually mean here? +

Three things. Data egress controls on AI services. Identity for service-to-service AI calls. Observability that includes AI usage and cost. None of it bolted on later.

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