An enterprise’s information technology environment is often composed of various complex and heterogeneous systems and is subject to many requirements, regulations, and laws. This leads to the issue that technical experts should also have a firm knowledge about a company’s compliance requirements on information technology. This paper presents an approach to ensure compliance of application deployment models during their design time. We introduce a concept that is able to locate compliance relevant areas in deployment models while also specifying how these areas have to be modeled to fulfill the compliance requirements.