Landing zone (software)

A landing zone is an environment that is made available by cloud computing companies. It is the environment in which the actual workloads run in.{{Citation |last=Lloyd |first=Jeremy |title=Infrastructure Leader’s Guide to Google Cloud|date=2022-12-15|url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-8820-7 |access-date=2024-10-04 |chapter=23: Cloud Foundations and Landing Zones |place=Berkeley, CA |publisher=Apress |isbn=978-1-4842-8819-1}} Landing zones are available for Microsoft Azure,{{Cite news |last=Speed |first=Richard |date=4 Oct 2023 |title=Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview |url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/microsoft_cloud_for_sovereignty/ |work=The Register}} Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.

Amazon has also provided educational landing zones to universities, so students could practice with the technology.{{Cite web |last=Toet |first=Diederik |date=2023-09-22 |title=AWS biedt hbo-instellingen oefen-cloud |url=https://www.computable.nl/2023/09/22/aws-biedt-hbo-instellingen-oefen-cloud/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Computable.nl |language=nl-NL}}