CLOUD ASSESSMENT
Evidence-led cloud assessments
Whether you are sizing a first move to AWS or Azure or bringing an existing environment back under architectural control, assessments translate fuzzy concerns into sequenced options: cost posture, security gaps, reliability risks, and dependencies that affect migration order.
Cloud architecture and design
Cloud reliability
Cloud performance and efficiency
Cloud security
Cloud operations
Cloud cost optimisation
Cloud readiness and architecture reviews
Structured assessments so you know what to migrate, what to modernise, and whether your cloud footprint is still fit for purpose.
Cloud readiness assessment
Common questions we hear:
Which applications are ready for the cloud? What savings can we expect from migrating them? How do we get real visibility into what we already run in the cloud? And what is the right path for legacy applications whose maintenance bill keeps rising?
Every application sits at a different point in its life cycle. Most can run in the cloud well; some legacy workloads need more design time first. We assess cloud readiness across cost, performance, security, compliance, and software and hardware compatibility: and come back with a sequenced plan.
Cloud assessment / health check
A cloud assessment evaluates your current architecture against current best practices on AWS and Azure, so the platform keeps paying back over time.
Is your environment well-architected? We compare workloads to today’s patterns and standards and give concrete guidance to stabilise, simplify, and improve efficiency.
Senior assessors, not auditors
Engineering-led
Assessments are run by people who would later build the platform: so the plan is one your engineers can actually execute.
Vendor-honest
AWS and Azure on equal footing. Recommendations follow the well-architected and CAF principles: not a partner quota.
Certified delivery
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NEN 4400-1. EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR factored into every recommendation.
Our cloud assessments across the Netherlands
The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). We work with organisations across the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven), and with customers elsewhere in the European Union. Our architects and platform engineers operate in Dutch and English, with experience on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
Based in Rijswijk: on-site across the Randstad, remote elsewhere in the EU
NEN 4400-1, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified
Bilingual delivery in Dutch and English
EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR factored into the design
Who we work with
Mostly mid-size and enterprise organisations across the Netherlands: in financial services, public sector, healthcare, education, industry, and SaaS. Engagements range from a short cloud assessment to long-running managed cloud operations.
The Factory B.V.
Veraartlaan 12
2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl
Where a cloud assessment fits in our offering
The same engineers stay on the work.
- Documented decisions. Architecture, trade-offs, and runbooks live in the same repository as the code: reviewable on day one and on day 200.
- Monthly WTF sessions. Engineers walk through customer work, technical deep-dives, experiments, and what didn’t work. What The Faqtory!: our standing internal review.
- Standing learning investment. Active Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru access, certification time, and study agreements where the depth justifies it.
The point isn’t novelty. The point is that two years in, the platform still makes sense to the people running it. Read about our engineering culture