Beakwise designs, migrates, operates and evidences EU cloud for regulated financial workloads. We build regulation-first landing zones across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, then run them with the documentation your supervisor and your board expect. Contracted through Beakwise Europe B.V. in The Hague.
For CISOs, CIOs, COOs and operational-resilience leaders at EU fintech, payments and insurance firms.
EU entity: Beakwise Europe B.V., The Hague · KvK 98002740
Managed cloud architecture for EU financial services is the design and ongoing operation of cloud environments built to meet EU financial-sector rules. It combines a controlled landing zone, EU-region deployment with documented data-boundary controls, resilience patterns aligned with DORA, and evidence that the setup works as described.
For regulated firms, cloud is no longer just infrastructure. It is an outsourcing arrangement that supervisors review. A managed cloud service for financial workloads therefore goes beyond keeping servers running. It establishes who controls what, where data sits, how access is governed, how incidents are detected and reported, and how the firm can exit. Beakwise treats every one of these as a deliverable, documented in language your risk, compliance and audit functions can use.
The rules changed and the questions changed with them. DORA has applied since 17 January 2025 (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554). On 18 November 2025 the European Supervisory Authorities designated AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud among 19 Critical ICT Third-Party Providers. Running cloud for a regulated firm now means proving control, not just buying capacity.
Most regulated firms depend on the same handful of hyperscalers. The ESAs formalised this on 18 November 2025 by designating AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud as Critical ICT Third-Party Providers. That designation does not transfer your responsibility. Under DORA Article 29 you still have to assess concentration risk and show you have alternatives and exit paths.
Choosing an EU region is a start, not an answer. Where data actually rests, where it is processed, and who can access it for support depend on the specific services you select and how they are configured. Honest design means mapping these flows and documenting the exceptions, rather than claiming data never leaves the EU.
Vendor and outsourcing reviews used to ask about price and uptime. Now they ask about data boundaries, fourth-party dependencies, mandatory contractual clauses under DORA Article 30, and tested exit strategies under Article 28(8). If your cloud cannot answer those questions with evidence, the deal, the audit or the supervisor stalls.
Beakwise covers the full lifecycle of regulated cloud. We architect the foundation, move your workloads, run them day to day, and govern the whole environment with evidence. You can engage us for one module or all four. The handover points are explicit, so nothing falls between teams.
We design regulation-first landing zones with identity, network, encryption, logging and account structure set up for financial workloads from day one. EU-region deployment, documented data-boundary controls and least-privilege access are built in, not bolted on later.
We move workloads to the cloud with a plan that protects continuity and creates an audit trail. Where it adds value, we modernize, containerizing, decoupling and automating, so you reduce operational risk instead of carrying legacy fragility into a new environment.
We run the environment around the clock from the EU: monitoring, patching, cost control, performance, backups and incident handling. You get a stable, observable platform and a clear operating model, with defined roles for what we run and what stays with you.
We treat evidence as a product. Configuration baselines, access records, change logs, control mappings and a register of information are produced and kept current, so that your risk, compliance and audit teams can answer supervisory questions without a fire drill.
Beakwise builds and operates cloud environments designed to support your obligations under DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554), in application since 17 January 2025. We align the architecture, operations and documentation to DORA's ICT third-party and resilience requirements. Your firm remains the responsible financial entity throughout.
We help you populate and maintain the register of information for ICT third-party arrangements expected under DORA Article 28, with the technical detail kept accurate as the environment changes.
We provide the architecture facts you need to assess concentration risk under Article 29, including provider, region and service dependencies, and we design for credible alternatives.
We structure our managed-service arrangements to support the mandatory contractual elements expected under Article 30, including access, audit, subcontracting transparency and termination rights.
We design portability and documented exit paths so you can support the tested exit-strategy expectations of Article 28(8), reducing the cost and risk of leaving a provider.
We implement backup, recovery, redundancy and failover patterns, and document them, so resilience is demonstrable rather than assumed.
We provide monitoring, classification inputs and an evidence trail that supports your major-incident reporting workflow under DORA's reporting framework.
Due no later than 4 hours after you classify an incident as major, and within 24 hours of detection.
Due within 72 hours of the initial notification, with updated impact, status and actions taken.
Due within one month of the latest intermediate report, with root cause and remediation.
Beakwise supports your DORA programme through architecture, operations and evidence. We do not assume your regulatory obligations. Your firm remains the responsible financial entity, and ESA designation of a cloud provider as critical does not transfer that responsibility to the provider or to us.
We start with an EU Cloud Risk Review. We map your current estate, data flows, provider dependencies and resilience gaps against DORA and your supervisory context, and we agree what good looks like for your firm.
We design the target architecture: landing zone, EU-region deployment, data-boundary controls, identity, resilience patterns and the governance model. Every choice is documented, including exceptions, so the design is reviewable from day one.
We move workloads in controlled waves and put the managed-service agreement in place through Beakwise Europe B.V., structured to support DORA's contractual expectations under Article 30, with access, audit and exit rights defined.
We operate the environment 24/7 from the EU and keep the evidence current: control mappings, access records, change logs and the register of information. Resilience and exit paths are tested, not just described.
We understand the workloads behind regulated finance, not just the servers under them. That means we design cloud around the processes your supervisors and customers care about: underwriting and claims, payments and lending, onboarding and reporting. The result is operations that fit your regulatory reality.
Policy administration, underwriting, claims, pricing and actuarial data carry strict availability and data-protection demands, and fall within EIOPA and national supervisory expectations. We build EU cloud designed around these workloads, with resilience and evidence sized for insurance operations and their regulatory cycle.
Payment flows, KYC and onboarding, and lending platforms need low-latency, high-availability environments under continuous supervisory attention, including DNB and BaFin expectations. We architect EU cloud with the data-boundary controls, monitoring and exit paths that DORA-era outsourcing reviews now require.
Core banking, portfolio, custody and reporting systems demand strong data governance, auditability and recoverability. We design and operate EU cloud for these workloads with control mappings and evidence aligned to your audit and supervisory obligations.
Beakwise is provider-flexible. We support AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and we architect around each provider's EU control model rather than forcing one answer. The right choice depends on your existing estate, your data-boundary needs and your risk appetite. We help you decide, then operate it.
We architect on AWS using EU-region deployment and the controls of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud where they fit your requirements. We map data residency and support-access behaviour for the specific services you use, and we document the exceptions.
We design on Azure using EU-region deployment and the Azure EU Data Boundary as part of your control model. We assess how the boundary applies to your selected services, and we document where exceptions and support-access paths exist.
We build on Google Cloud using EU-region deployment and its sovereign-control options where they suit your needs. We evaluate residency and access for each service in scope, and we record the controls and the exceptions in plain terms.
We do not claim that data never leaves the EU. Exact data-residency and support-access behaviour depends on the services you select and how they are configured. We document those choices, including their exceptions, rather than hide them, so your risk and compliance teams see the real picture.
Building a regulated cloud capability in-house means hiring scarce platform, security and resilience engineers, then keeping them current with DORA, NIS2 and provider changes. The capacity competes with your product roadmap, and key-person risk is real. Beakwise gives you a ready operating model, 24/7 EU coverage and evidence as a product, with the certified disciplines of an ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 organisation, at a predictable cost. You keep control and accountability; you offload the engineering and the documentation grind.
Large global integrators can deliver scale, but regulated EU cloud often sits at the edge of their model. Common market patterns include offshore delivery and support that complicates data-boundary and access claims, broad frameworks that are not tuned to DORA, and architecture work that ends at go-live with little ongoing evidence. Beakwise is EU-contracted through Beakwise Europe B.V. in The Hague, regulation-first by default, and committed to running and evidencing what we build, not just handing it over.
Contracted in the Netherlands, built around EU rules from the start.
DORA-led design, with NIS2 and GDPR considered by default.
Provider-specific data-boundary controls with documented exceptions, never overclaimed.
Architecture and tested exit paths that keep you free to move.
Control mappings, logs and registers kept current and audit-ready.
Round-the-clock monitoring and incident handling from within the EU.
Your service is contracted through Beakwise Europe B.V., the group's EU subsidiary, registered in The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands, under Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number 98002740, with its registered office at Saturnusstraat 95, 2516 AG, The Hague. This gives you a verifiable EU contracting identity and a European counterparty for your outsourcing arrangement.
The Beakwise group holds ISO 27001:2022 for information security management and ISO 9001:2015 for quality management, both independently certified. ISO 20000-1 for IT service management is in progress and in its final phase. We attribute these certifications to the group and present Beakwise Europe B.V. as the EU contracting entity.
Beakwise supports AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. We are provider-flexible and architect around each provider's EU control model, including the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, the Azure EU Data Boundary and Google Cloud sovereign-control options. The right choice depends on your estate, your data-boundary needs and your risk appetite, and we help you decide.
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Your supervisor, your board and your customers are asking harder questions about cloud. The firms that answer with evidence move faster and sleep better. Beakwise helps you design, migrate, run and evidence EU cloud for regulated financial workloads, contracted through Beakwise Europe B.V. in The Hague. Start with a focused review.
