Accelerator Pack Azure Landing Zone: 12-Week Implementation

If existing landing zone deployments exhibit gaps or risks, our Accelerator Pack for ALZ provides a ready-made solution, preparing Azure platforms for application migration, data centre migration, or service modernisation initiatives. By optimising the structure, design, and automation methods, our solution enhances security, resilience, performance, recoverability, and cost efficiency.
Moreover, our solution is scalable and compliant, ensuring the Azure environment meets business needs without compromising integrity or efficiency. Whether focusing on security or performance, our ALZ Accelerator Pack supports an efficient and effective long-term Azure journey.

Solution highlights:

• Production-ready ALZ: A pre-engineered solution for rapid implementation of an enterprise-grade Azure landing zone, prioritising quality and speed.
• Enterprise-grade and fully automated: Leverage BlakYaks’ library of proven enterprise design patterns, artifacts, and IaC modules with customers retaining ownership of the final designs and codebase.
• Expert team: Our PAQS-ALZ implementation squad delivers quality outcomes swiftly, followed by handover to your operations team or ongoing support from BlakYaks Azure specialist operations team (aka SpecOps).

Solution features:

1. Fast deployment of an Azure Landing Zone: An enterprise-grade design for your Azure landing zone, pre-engineered and pre-coded using our assured design patterns. Implemented by our expert team, our Accelerator Pack solution provides a future-proofed ALZ ready to host critical business services.
2. IaC Code and Automation: Our Accelerator Pack includes fully automated Azure landing zone deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), integrated into your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline (or other CI/CD tools). Our automated deployment process is rigorously tested and proven.
3. ALZ Documentation: Our Accelerator Pack solution includes thorough documentation, encompassing design and operation handover pack, along with all associated design artifacts and IaC code modules. 

Customer scenarios - Our Accelerator Pack is suited for customers that:

• Want to optimise and modernise their Azure platform – Customers already realise that the business will benefit from an updated Azure Landing Zone design that meets todays’ availability, automation, security, operational and governance needs. Many Azure deployments are overly complex, there are too many subscriptions, configuration variants, often manually deployed with a large array of services and workloads without appropriate operation, cost and security controls to govern the ALZ effectively.

• Aim to move from legacy environments – customers have decided to start or accelerate their data centre reductions or have chosen to move to an enterprise Azure deployment and away from alternate cloud deployment scenarios.

• Demand rapid service delivery - Developers and application teams want to embrace the rich array of modern cloud services to build future generation application stacks (often following a micro-services architecture approach) and stretched cloud infrastructure teams are overwhelmed with pent up demand. Some of the existing sub-optimal cloud deployment and operational methods begin to bite once the cloud environment gets to scale without key ALZ foundations having been established.

• Seek better alignment with modern enterprise standards – The Azure landscape has changed over the last 10 years. Customers realise they may need a re-think and re-design to be prepared for the next several years but find it difficult or costly or time-consuming to change the foundational ALZ platform in-place.

Outcomes and benefits:

• Rapid and reliable deployment: The customer receives a production-ready Azure Landing Zone that meets the highest security and compliance standards, proven in demanding sectors like financial services.

• A fully automated ALZ deployment that embeds strong standards and methods and sets the bar and tone for all future services, workloads and applications deployed or migrated to the ALZ.

• Highly observable and manageable ALZ with all the right operational processes, controls and governance in place to allow the platform to scale effectively over time whilst minimising management overheads and costs.

• Strong DevOps & IaC methods at the kernel of the ALZ deployment and fully prepared for all future services, applications and workloads.

• Secure and compliant ALZ platform that you can migrate to and deploy new services into with renewed confidence in the underlying hosting ALZ.

BlakYaks lead the way in building enterprise-grade Azure platforms (with DevSecOps and IaC skills at the core). Schedule a meeting to understand how your specific enterprise platform challenges can be solved with our Accelerator Pack for ALZ or get in touch for more information.