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This post was co-authored by Sarah Lean, Senior Content Engineer, Azure<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tailwind Traders1<\/sup> is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of its IT strategy. The IT team is familiar with deploying infrastructure on-premises and is now researching what they need to do in order to run their workloads on Azure. In this blog post, we will walk you through Tailwind Traders’ experience to run its workloads on Azure using Cloud Adoption Framework<\/a> and Azure landing zones guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are enterprise-scale landing zones?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a previous blog post<\/a>, we followed Tailwind Traders and their cloud adoption journey, where we learned about the Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure landing zones. After researching the different landing zone options\u2014start small and expand<\/a>, enterprise-scale<\/a>, and partner landing zones<\/a>\u2014Tailwind Traders has decided to start with the enterprise-scale architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tailwind Traders requires an initial implementation of landing zones with fully integrated governance, security, and operations from the start. The enterprise-scale architecture provides prescriptive guidance coupled with Azure best practices, developed largely by Microsoft architects and the broader Cloud Solutions Unit technical community. It follows design principles across the critical design areas for an organization’s Azure environment, like enterprise enrollment, identity, network topology, resource organization, governance, operations, business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR), as well as deployment options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enterprise-scale architecture provides a strategic design path and a target state for the Tailwind Traders Azure environment, which will evolve with new features and changes to the Azure platform. It uses Azure-native platform services and capabilities and aligns with Azure platform roadmaps to ensure that new capabilities are available within the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Enterprise-Scale<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Figure 1: Enterprise-Scale with hub and spoke architecture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tailwind Traders wants to make sure that they set up their Azure environment with a great foundation for their Azure landing zones, which support their existing applications which they are migrating to the cloud, as well as new greenfield workloads. The modular design of the enterprise-scale architecture allows Tailwind Traders to start with foundational landing zones that support their application no matter if the applications are being migrated from their on-premises infrastructure or are newly developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modular design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The modular design not only makes it simple to deploy existing and new applications, it also allows Tailwind Traders to start with a lighter deployment implementation and scale depending on their business needs. Currently, enterprise-scale offers three different reference implementations<\/a>, which all can be scaled without refactoring when requirements change over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n