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Phoenix Consulting

Landing Zone Setup & Deployment

The
foundation everything else runs on.

Foundations that hold — production-ready from day one.

What we do

A landing zone is the account structure, network topology, identity, security baseline and governance that every workload will inherit. Done properly at the start, it saves years of retrofitting later.

Phoenix delivers landing zones on AWS (Control Tower + Organizations) and equivalent constructs on Azure and Huawei Cloud — mapped to the customer's operating model, not a generic template.

Inside the practice

What's in scope.

Multi-account architecture

Organizations, OU design, account-vending, guardrails — with a clear separation between shared services, workloads and dev/test.

AWS OrganizationsControl TowerSCPs

Network topology

Transit Gateway or hub-and-spoke VPC design, hybrid connectivity, DNS strategy — routing that scales with the estate.

Transit GatewayVPC designDirect Connect

Identity & access

IAM Identity Center (SSO), federation to existing IdPs, least-privilege role design, break-glass procedures.

IAM Identity CenterSSOMFA

Security baseline

GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, encryption defaults, KMS strategy, secrets management. Compliance mapped to the customer's regime.

Security HubGuardDutyKMSSecrets Manager

Governance & guardrails

Preventive and detective controls, tagging strategy, budgets and alerts wired in from day one — not bolted on later.

Tag policiesBudgetsConfig Rules

Logging & observability

Centralized CloudTrail, VPC flow logs, application logging, dashboards and the alerting spine every downstream workload will use.

CloudTrailCloudWatchOpenSearch
How Phoenix delivers

The approach.

01
Discovery

Current-state assessment — existing accounts, networks, security posture, compliance obligations, operating model.

02
Design

Target landing-zone architecture, decision log, migration path from current state (if any). Signed off before code runs.

03
Deploy

Infrastructure-as-code build (Terraform / CDK), pipeline setup, guardrails and security services enabled, first pilot workload lands.

04
Handover

Runbooks, IaC repositories, admin training, and a clear operating model for the customer's cloud team.

What you get

Named deliverables.

Every engagement lands specific artefacts — not slides.

Signed-off target-state architecture and decision log.

Landing zone deployed as Infrastructure-as-Code — reproducible, versioned, reviewable.

Security baseline live (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, encryption defaults).

Identity federation to the customer's IdP.

One workload migrated as pilot — proving the foundation.

Runbooks and operations documentation.

Talk to us

The earliest conversations
are usually the most useful.

Whether you're scoping an SAP move to cloud, restarting a stalled programme, or just trying to figure out where data and AI fit — start with a conversation.