Building an Azure landing zone is often expensive, complicated, and requires significant ongoing cost and expertise to configure, deploy, and maintain. Building a landing zone is often expensive, complicated, and requires significant ongoing cost and expertise to configure, deploy, and maintain. 

Even with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, you still need to define how management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups should be structured, set up Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC, build network foundations, standardize security controls, create guardrails with Azure Policy, configure tagging and monitoring, and more. Even with Google’s foundation blueprints, you still need to define how orgs, folders, and projects should be structured, set up identity and access management, build network foundations, standardize security controls, create guardrails, and more.

And an Azure landing zone isn’t a one-time project, it’s a product you now own. Your team is now responsible for every Azure change, security update, module update, and standards drift, forever.