The Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides the proven guidance, architecture patterns, and implementation tools that help organizations confidently adopt Microsoft Azure at enterprise scale. For IT pros and system engineers, governance, networking, identity, security, operations, automation, and cost management all have to come together in a consistent, repeatable, and compliant environment.

In this session, you’ll learn how to design, deploy, and operate Azure enterprise landing zones (ALZ) using the CAF architecture, patterns, and tooling. We’ll walk through the core components of landing zones including management groups, identity and access strategy, network topology (hub-and-spoke and mesh), policy-driven governance, security baselines, automation with Infrastructure-as-Code, and operational practices for monitoring, backup, resilience, and lifecycle management.

You’ll also discover how tools like Azure Landing Zone Accelerator, Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep/Terraform), Platform Automation & DevOps, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud fit into the broader enterprise platform. Through real-world examples and patterns from customer deployments, you’ll learn how to build a secure, scalable, compliant foundation that supports cloud workloads from initial migration to modernization and AI-driven innovation.

Whether you're planning your first enterprise landing zone or looking to enhance an existing platform, this session will give you the architectural clarity and practical guidance to accelerate secure cloud adoption with confidence.