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Designing Compliant Cloud Landing Zones for the Six GCC States

GCC Compliance & Implementation Track · Certified GCC Cloud Compliance Architect

A landing zone is where GCC compliance is either engineered in or lost. This course builds landing zone designs that satisfy NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls, SAMA expectations, Qatar NIA classification rules and UAE sectoral requirements — as enforced configuration rather than documented intent. It is hands-on: learners build guardrails, test them by attempting to violate them, and produce the evidence artefacts an auditor will request. Coverage includes the practical constraints that regional architects actually hit, including in-country region service gaps, sovereign region feature parity, and the operational reality of running a regulated workload where the managed service you need is not available locally.

15 modules

What you'll master

Learning objectives

01Design a landing zone that enforces GCC residency and control requirements by configuration
02Map NCA CCC and sectoral cloud requirements to concrete platform controls
03Build preventive guardrails that make non-compliant deployment impossible
04Handle in-country service gaps without breaking the compliance position
05Design landing zone segmentation across multiple GCC jurisdictions
06Generate continuous compliance evidence from the platform itself

Skills gained

NCA CCCSAMA Cloud Computing Regulatory FrameworkQatar NIA v2.0ITHR LZ Requirement Spec TemplateITHR GCC Tenancy Topology PatternsCloud provider organisation constructsCloud provider region service matricesITHR Service Gap Decision Record

Curriculum

15-module program

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