Landing Zones
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.