Cloud & Platform Engineering

Solution walkthrough

Cloud foundations and landing zones

Establish identity, networking, access and operating standards for your target environment. Align public, private and sovereign cloud choices with the workloads and data requirements.

Example workflow: Infrastructure and security leaders.

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The operating problem

Several teams are adopting cloud services with different account structures, networking choices and access practices. A shared foundation is needed before additional workloads arrive, while data-location and operational-control requirements shape the platform choices.

From input to action

How it works.

  1. 01

    Agree the foundation

    Define account or project boundaries, connectivity, access roles and control requirements. Compare public, private or sovereign platform options against the actual workload and operating needs.

  2. 02

    Build repeatable environments

    Implement the selected network, identity, logging and policy baseline using versioned infrastructure definitions. Make environment creation and changes reviewable and reproducible.

  3. 03

    Validate workload onboarding

    Onboard a representative application and test connectivity, access, monitoring and recovery. Publish the ownership model and the process teams use to request and operate environments.

What we deliver

  • Target foundation architecture
  • Versioned landing-zone configuration
  • Identity, connectivity and logging baseline
  • Validated onboarding process and runbooks

What to measure

Agree a baseline and acceptance targets around the operating outcome.

  • Environment provisioning time and repeatability
  • Access, policy and network validation results
  • Configuration drift and workload-onboarding effort

Explore the work

Related ApexFlo projects and products.

Completed delivery

Approximately 500 workloads in six months

Approximately 500 VMware workloads moved to Amazon EC2 through replication, target-side validation and controlled cutover.

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