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The Azure AI Landing Zone Readiness Checklist

Microsoft publishes a 44-point design checklist for AI landing zones. It's organized by topic, not by when a decision becomes expensive to reverse. This is the same checklist in plain language, sorted so you decide the things that force a rebuild first.

The recommendations are Microsoft's; the order, the evidence prompts and the worksheets are ours. The upstream project is in preview and has no tagged releases, so we say so plainly and tell you to pin what you deploy. See how we verify what we publish.

A region check for Canadian teams. As of October 9, 2026, no Canadian region is on the project's list of regions that support a full deployment. The PDF shows the list and what to do about it. Re-read the project README before you decide.

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What's inside

What's in the PDF.

  • All 44 recommendations, in plain language

    Microsoft's AI Landing Zones design checklist, restated and tagged with its original IDs so you can cross-reference the source.

  • Sorted by when it's hard to reverse

    Decide first, build in before the first agent ships, then what a second team or an auditor will test. The order is ours; the recommendations are Microsoft's.

  • An “ask for” line on every check

    Each check names the evidence that proves it, so “we think so” scores as partly, not yes.

  • A region check

    The regions the project lists for a full deployment, and a worksheet for your own residency question.

  • A decision log

    The choices the checklist leaves to you, including the exact project version you deployed, because it has no tagged releases.

  • Eight questions for your platform team

    What to find out before you build, about the central services a platform landing zone may already provide.

Landing zone sorted, agents next?

Score the controls that sit on top of it.

Our companion checklist covers what runs on the landing zone: evaluation gates, identity per agent, spend against outcomes and human approval.

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