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Landing zone anti-patterns

Common Azure landing zone anti-patterns that surface during ESLZ-aligned architecture reviews.

2026-04-12 ยท 6 min read

Flat management structure

A flat tenant structure can make governance inheritance, subscription separation, and platform responsibilities harder to reason about.

Missing shared services pattern

When monitoring, network, or governance services are scattered without a clear platform pattern, the landing zone is usually carrying unnecessary complexity.

Weak hub-and-spoke signals

A missing or partial hub pattern is not always wrong, but it needs to be understood and justified rather than discovered accidentally in review.

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