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Solutions – Sovereign Landing Zone

Get the foundation right, and everything after it moves faster.

Most cloud environments start as one AWS account with admin access shared in Slack. Six months later, nobody can say what's running, who can touch it, or what it costs. A Sovereign Landing Zone is the fix: accounts, access, and security set up right the first time, costs visible from day one, and your data in Switzerland if that's where it must stay. Every project you build afterwards inherits it.

How it works

What's actually under the foundation.

The parts a platform engineer would check before trusting it: where it runs, who can touch what, and what stops a mistake from spreading.

Runs in your own account

Your AWS account, in the Swiss region if that's where your data must stay. No shared tenant, no copy on our side. We structure it; you hold it.

Multi-account by design

Separate accounts per environment and workload under an organisation, following AWS best practices – a mistake in one stays contained, and production is walled off from experiments by account boundaries.

Guardrails enforced, not documented

Security and compliance policies are written as policy-as-code and applied at the organisation level. A team can't opt out of them from inside an account – the control sits above it.

Everything as reviewed code

The whole foundation is provisioned as Infrastructure-as-Code from reviewed, versioned modules – nothing clicked together by hand. It can be read, diffed, audited, and rebuilt from source.

Identical across environments

Dev, staging, and production land from the same modules, so they don't drift apart. A fix propagates the same way everywhere, instead of being reapplied by hand.

Least-privilege access

Identity is centralised; access is scoped to what a role actually needs – read-only where reading is enough. Permissions are defined as code, reviewed like any other change, and every access is logged.

Cost visible from day one

Spend is broken out per team, product, or plant from the first workload, because the account structure and tagging are set up for it up front.

Network security built in

Segmentation and firewalls are part of the foundation. Where the architecture calls for it, we build Fortinet controls straight in – inspection and segmentation from day one.

See the Fortinet Integration

Ready to carry industrial workloads

Built to hold what you put on it – from dashboards to machine data – so the first workload lands on ground that's already governed.

Whose account, whose keys

Structured by us. Never locked to us.

It's your own AWS account, structured by us. We operate it for as long as you want, and hand over the keys whenever you ask. Handover is the same versioned repository described above – every guardrail, module, and access rule – plus the architecture decision records and a transition-support window, so nothing goes dark when we step back. During the engagement, our access is a role you grant in your own account – scoped, time-boxed, and logged; you can revoke it at any time. You are never required to run it yourself, and never trapped into us either.

Proof

At scale, and secure by default.

140+ landing zones under management

We look after 140+ landing zones across multiple organisations. When yours has a problem, chances are we've seen it before. It's daily work for us, not a first-time build.

Fortinet security, integrated from day one

FortiGate next-generation firewalls embedded into the governed multi-account architecture, secure hub-and-spoke and inspection VPC designs, segmentation for east-west and north-south traffic. Our team holds Fortinet certifications.

See the Fortinet Integration

A named, public Fortinet case study is in progress – ask us directly for a reference.

Start with one workload

Start with one workload.

Book a call to scope your foundation – account structure, guardrails, and the first workload it needs to carry.