Migration timelines and regulatory pressure often arrive before guardrails feel mature. We work alongside CTO offices and platform teams on AWS and Azure to stabilise cloud environments with landing zones, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and operations where you need depth: clear ownership, Infrastructure as Code that stands up to review, and documentation written for handover.
Boards track milestones; operating reality lasts longer. Tension builds when migrations, new regulation, and delivery ambition hit the same environment before foundations were built for shared ownership. We structure programmes so landing zones, guardrails, and pipelines stay understandable after handover: architectural decisions in prose, automation through pipelines, and operational artefacts alongside application code.
We’d rather explain a trade-off once than fight the incident twice.
From a first landing zone to production AI inference, we work as senior engineers alongside your teams. We keep that bar deliberate: written decisions, monthly internal sessions where engineers show what shipped, and time set aside for learning and certifications. Case studies show what that looks like in practice.
About us
A permanent team of senior engineers and architects. The same people who design the platform also run it. Meet the team.
From architecture to engineering to operations, sequenced for mature AWS and Azure environments, and private cloud when that is still the right fit.
Boards approve programmes; platforms endure. We keep this homepage intentional: fewer labels, sharper sequencing; then we go deep where diligence expects proof.
Platform architecture
Modernisation only holds if foundations stay credible under governance and audit. We help CTO offices set direction on AWS and Azure before commitments lock in, so programmes do not outrun accountability.
Platform engineering
Product teams move fastest when defaults are explicit and automation is boring. We engineer platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure patterns so delivery accelerates without bypassing guardrails.
Reliability & operations
Scale and regulation raise the cost of surprises. We add observability, run discipline, and managed coverage where your organisation needs a steady engineering partner alongside internal teams.
Dedicated pages cover assessments, advisory retainers, discovery, AI programmes, and remote depth; the navigation stays grouped so executives see shape first.
Most programmes move through these four areas. The shape changes per client; the discipline does not.
Landing zones, guardrails, and reusable patterns. We align AWS, Azure, or hybrid footprints with Infrastructure as Code and a landing-zone baseline, so every environment is explainable and reproducible.
Pipelines, GitOps, and release engineering that survive audits, scale, and team turnover. See DevOps and cloud automation for how we standardise delivery without slowing teams down.
Measured moves to the cloud, or between clouds, with a clear cutover plan. Start from a cloud migration or cloud assessment when you need signal before spend.
Production ownership when you want it: managed public cloud, managed container platforms, and observability with partners such as Datadog.
A foundation, a platform, an automation programme. In each one, the client’s team kept running the result after we stepped back.
An AWS landing zone with a security baseline, centralised logging, governance, and an Account Vending Machine for on-demand account provisioning.
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A retrieval-augmented AI platform for a higher-education customer. Clean data boundaries, secure inference, and patterns the customer’s team can extend without re-architecting.
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CI/CD, GitOps, and release engineering put on a footing the platform team can maintain itself: traceable builds, consistent environments, no heroics.
Read the caseFour entry points into the work: from a first landing zone to long-running platforms at scale.
Verifiable, hands-on certifications: the kind we use every day on client environments.
AWS Select Tier Consulting Partner. We apply Well-Architected practice where it pays off: account structures, networking, IAM, data boundaries, and day-two operations.
Partner profileMicrosoft Solutions Partner: Digital & App Innovation. We focus on Azure landing zones, identity, platform services, and Kubernetes (AKS), with the same automation-first approach we apply elsewhere.
Partner profileDatadog MSP and Systems Integrator partner. We wire observability into how you ship: SLOs, service maps, and incidents that trace back to the commit and the infrastructure change.
DatadogFrom landing-zone design to pipelines and production operations, we work as senior engineers alongside your teams. When you need someone to run it, we also operate managed cloud and platforms. Tell us what good looks like for your organisation, and we will propose a concrete path.
How we layer managed AI, shared platform foundations, and model APIs is spelled out on AI strategy & implementation.
The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk. Tell us briefly what you need: a landing-zone programme, migration, Kubernetes rollout, architecture review, or modernization roadmap. Whoever replies is an engineer who would be on the team, not a routing layer. We come back with a concise view on scope and fit.
