MANAGED PUBLIC CLOUD
Shared automation, accountable operations
The Factory operates AWS and Azure platforms for organisations across the Netherlands and beyond, from our Dutch HQ in Rijswijk. We staff 24/7 coverage on top of automation we engineer together so incidents route through runbooks instead of heroics.
Our certified engineers work next to you to understand the business requirements and make sure your public cloud footprint stays cost-effective, secure, and ready to scale.
Continuous improvement
Higher operational efficiency
Cost optimisation
Four pillars of managed public cloud
Automation, security, monitoring, and 24/7 support: tied together with runbooks and a clear operating model.
Automation
We automate deployment processes and codify your infrastructure. We keep evolving the runbooks, the pipelines, and the platform itself as new cloud features and patterns become available.
Security
We apply current cloud security best practices: CIS, AWS and Azure security baselines: so the environment stays hardened, in a known state, and audit-ready.
Monitoring
We pick up negative trends early and detect anomalies before they turn into incidents. Monitoring covers system, infrastructure, application security, log files, and edge services: with alerting wired into our on-call.
Support
24/7/365 on-call backed by runbooks. The support model scales from a single product team to a full enterprise footprint, with clear SLAs and a documented escalation path.
A cloud operations partner, not a ticket queue
Senior, certified engineers
AWS and Azure certified, with the scars of running production. The same engineers who design platforms also run them.
Run on automation
Terraform, GitOps, runbooks, and clear escalation paths: not heroics. Change is reviewable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Compliance-ready
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NEN 4400-1. EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, GDPR factored into the operating model.
Our managed AWS and Azure platforms 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 managed public cloud 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