Treat the landing zone as a product

The move: build the paved road before asking teams to drive fast. Cloud adoption fails quietly when each team invents its own foundation. One team chooses tags, another chooses network shape, another skips logging, and a fourth creates a privileged deployment identity because the standard path is unclear. The result looks agile for a month and expensive for a year. Ready comes before adopt Readiness means the environment has usable defaults: identity, network, policy, observability, deployment, and cost allocation. Adoption means teams can put workloads on that foundation. Product thinking beats policy dumping A platform is useful only if teams…

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