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Azure Local and Landing Zones: How to Build Hybrid Cloud the Right Way with Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen [MVP]
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- Aug 22, 2026
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Summary
What happens when your cloud strategy cannot live entirely in the public cloud? Organizations are modernizing infrastructure with Azure, platform services, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment pipelines, and Azure Landing Zones. At the same time, some workloads still need to remain close to factories, offices, regulated environments, existing infrastructure, or latency-sensitive systems. In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters talks with Microsoft MVP Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen about how Azure Local can become part of a broader Azure architecture rather than another isolated on-premises platform. They explore Azure Local, Azure Landing Zones, Azure Arc, governance, Infrastructure as Code, Bicep, Azure DevOps, modernization, and the realities of building hybrid cloud environments. WHAT IS AZURE LOCAL? Azure Local combines familiar infrastructure technologies with Azure-based management, governance, and security capabilities. At its core, organizations can run workloads such as virtual machines locally while connecting the environment back to Azure. Christoffer explains that the major difference compared with a traditional Windows Server environment is the Azure experience surrounding the infrastructure. Organizations can keep workloads and data locally while using Azure capabilities to manage and govern the environment. IS AZURE LOCAL JUST AZURE IN YOUR DATA CENTER? Not exactly. Azure provides a significantly larger catalog of cloud services, but Azure Local can bring selected Azure experiences closer to local infrastructure. Christoffer discusses running virtual machines and Kubernetes on Azure Local as well as scenarios involving SQL Managed Instance and Azure Virtual Desktop. The result isn't a complete copy of Azure running inside your building. It's a h…