Once your strategy and governance plans are in place, you’re ready for one of the most important steps in Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) – the Ready phase. This is where you build the foundation of your entire cloud environment that will stand on. Which is also called as your landing zones.
Landing zones define how workloads will be deployed, secured, monitored, and governed. But too often, teams focus purely on technical readiness – networking, identity, and security, while neglecting one critical dimension that is cost readiness.
That’s where Turbo360 plays a pivotal role. It ensures that your landing zones are financially optimized, governed, and FinOps-ready from day one.
Read Part 3 of this series: How to approach planning phase in Cloud Adoption Framework?
The CAF ready phase: Laying the foundation for scale and control
Microsoft’s CAF describes the Ready phase as the stage where you:
- Design and deploy Azure landing zones.
- Implement governance and compliance controls.
- Validate identity, networking, and policy baselines.
- Prepare your organization for operational management.
The goal is to make Azure “ready” for adoption both technically and organizationally. But true readiness means having cost visibility, financial guardrails, and automated governance built in from the start.
Turbo360’s role in the ready phase
Turbo360 extends your landing zone readiness beyond compliance and security to include FinOps and operational excellence.
It ensures that every subscription, resource group, and environment comes with built-in cost awareness, automation, and monitoring so your teams can deploy confidently without losing financial control.
Embed cost visibility in every landing zone
CAF goal: Ensure new environments are observable and accountable.
Turbo360 solution:
- Configure Custom Scopes aligned with your landing zone architecture like management groups, environments, or business units.
- Connect each landing zone to Cost Analyzer dashboards for instant spend visibility.
- Apply Tag Manager automation to enforce financial tagging on all new resources.
Example: When a new “Production” landing zone is created, Turbo360 automatically applies your FinOps baseline – scopes, tags, budgets, and dashboards ensuring cost visibility from the first deployment.
Automate operational policies
CAF goal: Enforce standards without slowing down innovation.
Turbo360 solution:
- Use Automation & Scheduler to handle repetitive cost-related operations shutting down idle VMs, cleaning up unused disks, or removing orphaned resources.
- Schedule budget refreshes, data syncs, and compliance checks to keep everything up to date.
Result: Your landing zones become self-governing ecosystems with automated actions that keep costs under control and compliance in check.
Validate readiness with anomaly detection
CAF goal: Detect risks before they affect production.
Turbo360 solution:
- Use Anomaly Detection to identify unexpected cost spikes as workloads are tested.
- Benchmark normal spending patterns during pilot deployments.
- Automatically alert owners when anomalies exceed defined thresholds.
This lets you spot configuration errors, runaway resources, or inefficiencies early before they turn into financial or operational pain.
Secure and govern cost access
CAF goal: Ensure roles and permissions align with governance requirements.
Turbo360 solution:
- Configure Permission Manager to apply least privilege access to cost data.
- Create custom roles so developers can view their team’s spend without accessing sensitive enterprise financials.
- Configure access for users only to the FinOps scopes that apply to them
This aligns perfectly with CAF’s Identity & Access Management principle but extends it to include financial governance.
Integrate cost readiness into landing zone design
CAF goal: Standardize and automate deployments.
Turbo360 solution:
- Turbo360 can be compatible with your Azure Blueprint or Bicep deployment templates simplifying setup from day 1.
- Automatically register new subscriptions or resource groups into Turbo360 scopes during deployment.
- Apply standardized cost monitoring and alerting across all environments.
Outcome: Every new landing zone automatically inherits your FinOps baseline, ensuring that cost visibility, automation, and compliance scale with your environment.
Real-world example
A global MSP deploying multi-tenant Azure environments used Turbo360 to enhance their CAF landing zones.
They embedded Turbo360 automation into each new subscription so that:
- Tag compliance was enforced automatically.
- Cost dashboards and alerts were provisioned instantly.
- Idle resource cleanup schedules were deployed by default.
Within days, they achieved complete cost governance automation eliminating manual setup, reducing wasted spend, and ensuring every landing zone was FinOps-ready from day one.
Why it matters
In most organizations, cost management starts after workloads go live by then, inefficiencies are already baked in.
By embedding Turbo360 into your CAF Ready phase, you shift FinOps left making cost optimization a design-time principle, not an afterthought.
- Landing zones become self-governing.
- Budgets and cost visibility scale automatically.
- Finance and engineering share a common dashboard from day one.
What’s next
With your landing zones now secure, compliant, and cost-ready, the next CAF stage is where adoption truly begins migration and innovation.
In Part 5 of this series, we’ll cover:
Adopting Azure with Transparency: How Turbo360 Delivers Cost Control During Migration & Innovation.
We’ll explore how Turbo360 helps teams manage migration costs, monitor spend in real time, and keep innovation aligned with financial goals.
Final thought
Technical readiness alone isn’t enough.
True cloud readiness means being ready to govern, automate, and optimize costs from day one.
Turbo360 turns your CAF landing zones into FinOps-enabled foundations – combining governance, visibility, and automation for a smoother, more cost-efficient journey to Azure.
Don’t just build landing zones – build cost-ready foundations.
