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Why Azure Landing Zones Fail Before They Begin
A field guide to preventable Azure Landing Zone failures that show up long before the first subscription lands in production.
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Steve Rackham
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Kia ora! I'm Steve Rackham, a Cloud Architect and AI consultant based in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
I believe in substance over spectacle and have a people first approach to any technical challenge.
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Landing Zones Without Business Context
Why lift-and-shifting a real workload onto a vanilla ALZ reference is where the missing requirements finally come due.
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Governance as a Blocker
Can a two person NZ team get a fully compliant production environment in under a week? If not, you have a tollbooth, not governance.
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The Platform Team That Built Alone
A landing zone built alone is a hypothesis. A pilot partnership is the experiment, especially when people capacity is scarce.
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- Before You Deploy · 4
Undefined Subscription Strategy
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Why many landing zones fail before the first subscription is deployed. Preventable failure modes, with NZ field notes.
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