Platform Landing Zone
Company-wide foundation for governance, identity, security, networking, cost controls, and automation.
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Landing Zones
Landing Zones establish the cloud foundation for governance, security, networking, and automation before migration waves begin.
Understanding Landing Zones
Section titled “Understanding Landing Zones”A landing zone is the structured cloud foundation that defines how your organization operates on STACKIT from day 1. It combines governance, identity, security, network design, cost controls, and automation into one coherent baseline.
Without this foundation, migration waves typically stall due to missing approvals, inconsistent controls, and repeated platform decisions.
Core components
Section titled “Core components”The following visual summarizes the core components that should be addressed for a reliable platform baseline.
Why you need a landing zone
Section titled “Why you need a landing zone”- Control and risk reduction: Enforce security and compliance controls consistently across teams.
- Scalable delivery baseline: Enable repeatable provisioning patterns for multiple migration waves.
- Clear responsibilities: Define ownership boundaries for platform, security, and application teams.
- Faster migration throughput: Avoid redesigning core controls for each application move.
When to start
Section titled “When to start”Start the landing-zone stream as early as possible, in parallel with discovery.
- Too late: Productive migrations are blocked because mandatory controls are not yet available.
- Too early without discovery feedback: Application constraints are missed and later cause rework.
The practical model is a dual track: establish the platform baseline early, then refine application landing zone templates as discovery insights mature.
Two layers: Platform and Application Landing Zones
Section titled “Two layers: Platform and Application Landing Zones”Application Landing Zone
Workload-specific implementation patterns derived from the platform baseline and discovery findings.
Open Application Landing ZoneTypical enterprise inputs
Section titled “Typical enterprise inputs”To design a landing zone effectively, enterprises usually provide:
- Organization and ownership model: Entities, project boundaries, and accountability model.
- Compliance and policy requirements: Regulatory obligations and internal control policies.
- Security requirements: IAM standards, network segmentation, encryption, and logging expectations.
- Operations and support constraints: Incident handling, escalation paths, and handover model.
- Application portfolio insights: Discovery findings about workload archetypes and dependencies.
Delivery model
Section titled “Delivery model”- Define enterprise guardrails and target control model.
- Build and validate the platform landing zone baseline as code.
- Derive application landing zone templates from discovery and migration design.
- Pilot with selected workloads, then scale through migration factory runbooks.
STACKIT acceleration assets
Section titled “STACKIT acceleration assets”To accelerate delivery, STACKIT provides concrete best practices and reusable templates:
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