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Public cloud strategy

Public cloud with clear boundaries and ownership

AWS and Azure only deliver value when account structure, identity, networking, and guardrails match how your organisation funds and audits work. We help leadership and platform teams agree which workloads belong in public cloud, how they land without exporting chaos, and how FinOps and security stay reviewable as usage grows.

Our work spans every stage: a structured cloud assessment, a multi-account cloud landing zone, a successful cloud migration, and ongoing 24/7 managed operations if you want us to keep running it.

Where public cloud is the right answer

  • Bursty or seasonal workloads where elastic capacity earns its keep.
  • Greenfield products that need to ship fast and scale globally.
  • Data & analytics platforms that benefit from managed services.
  • AI / ML workloads where hyperscaler GPU access matters.
  • Regulated workloads where the public cloud's audit story is now an asset, not a risk.
Our approach

How we deliver public cloud platforms

From initial constraints to a governed AWS or Azure environment teams can extend without losing traceability.

Strategy & architecture

Cloud target architecture, account topology, network design, identity model, security baselines and the business case to back it. Vendor-aware, not vendor-led.

Landing zones & automation

Multi-account landing zones in Terraform, governed by policy as code. Your platform is reproducible, auditable, and ready for product teams from week one.

FinOps & governance

Cost dashboards, budgets, anomaly alerts and right-sizing workflows wired in from day one. Compliance evidence collected continuously, not at audit time.

Outcomes

Why a deliberate public cloud strategy pays back

Most public cloud regret stories share the same root cause: growth happened faster than governance. We help you stay ahead of that curve.

  • Faster delivery: paved-road landing zones unblock product teams.
  • Lower cost-per-workload: FinOps and architecture together.
  • Stronger security posture: guardrails as code, not as documents.
  • Audit-ready: compliance evidence collected automatically.
  • Vendor flexibility: patterns that work across AWS, Azure, and hybrid footprints.
  • Resilience: multi-region, multi-account, multi-AZ as the default.
Use cases

Where customers ask us to help

First public cloud entry

You are moving from on-premises to AWS or Azure and want a strategy that won’t need a do-over in two years.

Cloud-native scale-up

You are already in the public cloud but the bill is growing faster than your platform's quality. We bring discipline back.

Multi-cloud architecture

You have decided multi-cloud is the answer. We help you design it so it doesn't quietly cost twice as much.

Why The Factory

Independent, certified, hands-on

Certified partner

AWS and Azure certified engineers. ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and NEN 4400-1 at company level.

Vendor-aware, not vendor-led

We pick fits, not winners. The right answer is sometimes "stay where you are".

Engineers, not slides

Strategy work that comes back as Terraform, runbooks and dashboards: not as a 60-page PDF.

Our Public cloud consultancy 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

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Begin with a review

Request a public cloud architecture review

We'll review your current platform, your governance and your roadmap: and come back with concrete recommendations across architecture, security and FinOps.

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Behind every assignment

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

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