Cloud Landing Zone
A cloud landing zone (CLZ) is a pre defined set of best practices and guidelines that organisations can use to setup a cloud infrastructure with secure, scalable and well architected environment to easily deploy and manage the workloads in cloud. It provides a standardised way of creating and operating a cloud environment that can serve as a foundation also adhering to organisational policies and best practices. Usually CLZ is defined by an organisation's IT or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and covers a variety of areas, such as identity and access management, network architecture, security, logging, monitoring and cost optimisation. A CLZ can be thought of as a blueprint for setting up a cloud environment that is optimised for an organisation's specific needs and also defines how it will be managed. The main benefits of having a cloud landing zone as follows reducing the time and effort required to setup a cloud environment improved cloud governance reduces the co...