CLOUD MIGRATION
Reduce migration risk while keeping modernisation options open
Moving workloads to public cloud changes cost profiles, security boundaries, and how teams operate day to day. We help organisations in the Netherlands and wider Europe sequence those moves: what shifts now, what waits on dependency work, and what belongs in private or hybrid environments based on facts from discovery, not optimism.
Our architects and platform engineers cover strategy, target operating model, migration execution, and optional 24/7 run capabilities afterwards: always with written cutover plans and rollback paths.
We migrate your applications in 4–8 weeks
Your app in the cloud
- Intake of the current situation and functional / non-functional requirements
- Design of how the application will run in the cloud
- Build the cloud application landscape in Infrastructure as Code
- Deploy through CI/CD pipelines
- Operate the application landscape afterwards
We train your team
- How the new environment is built and the concepts behind it
- How to rebuild the environment from scratch
- How to evolve and change the environment safely
Duration 4–8 weeks
Depending on:
- Complexity of the application
- Framework the application is built on
- Dependencies on managed cloud services
- Number of services the application is composed of
Options we apply where they fit
Infrastructure as Code
The infrastructure the application lands on is described in Terraform.
- Immutable infrastructure
- Fast, repeatable deployments
- Reviewable change history
- Scales horizontally
- Shorter feedback loops
CI/CD
The application is deployed through a CI/CD pipeline.
- Shorter time to market
- Faster, smaller releases
- Tighter collaboration between dev and ops
- Higher code quality through review and tests
Container platform
Where it fits, we containerise the application and run it on a container platform.
- Less overhead
- Workload portability
- Consistent operation across environments
- Higher resource efficiency
- Faster development cycles
Logging and monitoring
We set up logging and monitoring so you have visibility into system metrics, application events, bottlenecks, and security signals.
- Events centralised in one place
- Performance insight you can act on
- Alerting that supports proactive response
- Auto-remediation for known failure modes
How we run cloud migrations
A governed path from design to cloud-native operations on AWS and Azure, with hybrid where it fits.
AWS and Azure, hybrid where it fits
Design, plan, build
Everything in code: speed, consistency, repeatability
Going cloud-native where it pays off
Lift & shift case study
We migrated workloads from a private on-premises environment to the public cloud, opening up managed data platforms and a modern operating model. We started with design, executed the migration, and decommissioned the legacy platform safely.
Read the casePredictable migrations, run by senior engineers
Sequenced 6R approach
Rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, retire: applied per workload, not as a one-size template.
Everything in code
Terraform, CI/CD, and reviewable change history from day one: so the platform stays as good as the day we built it.
Operations-ready handover
We document, train, and stay available. ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NEN 4400-1. EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, GDPR.
Our cloud migrations 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 cloud migration 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