Cloud landing zones
Account and subscription organization, foundational controls, and reusable environment patterns.
Cloud infrastructure consulting built around how your teams work.
Cloud infrastructure becomes difficult to manage when accounts, networks, permissions, and environments are created independently as new requirements appear. We design and improve cloud foundations on AWS and GCP, establishing the technical boundaries and reusable infrastructure your engineers need to build and operate services reliably.
The problem
Cloud resources are easy to create. A coherent cloud foundation takes design.
Resources are easy to create. A foundation the next environment can inherit is not.
Account boundaries
As found
- broad access
One account
- production
- staging
- experiments
- CI runners
- shared tooling
- backups
Broad admin roles reach everything
01
Accounts have unclear responsibilities
Production workloads, experiments, and shared tooling exist without deliberate isolation.
02
Access permissions have accumulated
Human and machine identities have broad or outdated permissions that are difficult to review.
03
Environments drift
Staging, development, and production were created separately and no longer behave consistently.
04
Recovery assumptions are untested
Backups may exist, but restoring a critical system is not a practiced procedure.
What changes
Give your cloud environment a structure that can grow.
Clear isolation and ownership
Accounts, subscriptions, networks, and access boundaries reflect the responsibilities of the systems inside them.
Account boundaries
- broad access
- shared account
- scoped access
One account
- production
- staging
- experiments
- CI runners
- shared tooling
- backups
Broad admin roles reach everything
Organization
Workloads, isolated
- productionbaseline
- stagingbaseline
- sandboxbaseline
Shared
- networkbaseline
- identitybaseline
- log archivebaseline
Inherited baseline: logging, encryption, guardrails
Deploy role scoped to production
Repeatable environments
New environments inherit a defined baseline instead of requiring manual reconstruction.
Operational controls that can be verified
Security, monitoring, backup, and recovery are part of the infrastructure design.
What we design and implement.
Networking
Private networking, connectivity, ingress, egress, routing, and network isolation.
Identity and access
Human access, workload identity, CI/CD identity, roles, and permissions.
Environment architecture
Development, staging, production, and shared services with intentional boundaries.
Security foundations
Logging, encryption, secrets, network exposure, and baseline controls.
Backup and recovery
Recovery requirements, backup architecture, and practical restoration testing.
Start with the cloud you have, not a reference architecture.
How the work runs
01
Map the environment
Identify accounts, networks, identities, infrastructure dependencies, and undocumented resources.
02
Define boundaries
Agree on isolation, access, networking, and responsibilities for shared infrastructure.
03
Implement the foundation
Apply reusable infrastructure code and automate the controls that should remain consistent.
04
Validate operations
Test relevant access paths, deployment processes, and recovery procedures.
Technologies
Used when they fit the system you already run. Not as a checklist.
AWS · GCP · Terraform · OpenTofu · IAM Identity Center · Cloud IAM
From the notes
Common questions
Do we need to rebuild our cloud environment?
Not necessarily. A new foundation can be appropriate when existing boundaries are fundamentally unsuitable. Often, improving what you already have is less disruptive and achieves the same objective.
Can you help with AWS and Google Cloud?
Yes. We work on AWS and Google Cloud and adapt the design to the services and operating model your team uses.
Do you recommend multi-cloud architectures?
Only when there is a clear business or technical requirement. Multiple cloud providers introduce additional networking, identity, deployment, and operational complexity.
Do you manage our cloud account as an MSP?
No. We design and implement cloud infrastructure in your accounts. We can provide ongoing engineering support, but we do not operate as a traditional managed service provider.
Related
- Infrastructure as code
Infrastructure code should make changes safer, not make every apply a high-risk event. We improve Terraform repositories, modules, state management, automated validation, and deployment workflows.
- Cloud cost optimization
Cloud spending needs context before it can be controlled. We identify waste, investigate costly architecture decisions, improve cost allocation, and help engineering teams manage infrastructure spending without relying on arbitrary savings targets.
- Platform engineering
Developers should not need to understand the entire infrastructure stack to ship a service. We create supported development and deployment workflows, reusable templates, and self-service capabilities that reduce dependence on a handful of infrastructure specialists.
- Kubernetes
A production cluster needs more than a working deployment. We help with cluster design, upgrades, workload configuration, networking, security, and operations. We also evaluate whether Kubernetes is still the right choice.
Platform assessment
Know what needs fixing before committing to a rebuild.
Our Platform & DevOps Assessment examines the infrastructure, delivery process, operational risks, and cloud costs you already have. You receive prioritized findings and a practical 90-day roadmap, including what to fix first, what can wait, and what should be left alone.