What is a cloud landing zone?

Answer

A landing zone is a pre-configured, secure, and scalable cloud environment that establishes a baseline for accounts, networking, identity, security, and governance before workloads are deployed. It codifies best practices such as account separation, centralized logging, guardrail policies, and standardized networking so teams can onboard new workloads quickly and safely. AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones, and Google Cloud foundations provide reference implementations. Landing zones are a foundational step in enterprise cloud adoption at scale.