The Factory works with you as a strategic partner. We review and evolve your IT and cloud strategy on AWS and Azure, and senior architects can act as CTO or lead architect on your behalf when that helps. The brief is always the same: clear architectural decisions, controlled operating expenses, and a roadmap that holds up under scrutiny.
Trusted advisory is not a one-off opinion: it is a steady relationship with the same engineers who would later build the landing zone or operate the platform. Advice stays grounded because those architects still ship on AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes week to week, including through our internal engineering forums and certification rhythm.
Calm, deliberate, and documented: three concerns we treat seriously on every assignment.
We start with the people running the platform: engineering, security, finance: and the existing environment. The output is a shared, honest picture of where you are and what gets in the way.
Architectural decisions get written down: ADRs, target architectures, and a sequenced roadmap your steering committee can actually stand behind. No verbal agreements, no surprises.
We stay reachable between formal moments: reviewing designs, sitting in on architecture boards, sharpening proposals before they leave the building. Trusted, not transactional.
You get an architect with a decade-plus of cloud and platform experience: not a graduate consultant briefed last week.
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and NEN 4400-1 certified. AWS and Azure where each fits, hyperscaler-native where it makes sense, neutral where it doesn't.
We advise on what we also build and run: landing zones, migrations, platform engineering, and managed operations.
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.
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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