Cloud platforms are powerful but unforgiving: easy to overprovision, easy to misconfigure, and easy to let the bill climb with nothing to show for it. And while everyone has backups, almost nobody knows if they work. Foundry Cloud runs your infrastructure properly — sized to the job, locked down, cost-governed — and treats recovery as the thing that actually matters.
Where your workloads run
We don't make you pick from a vendor catalogue. We match the workload to the right kind of platform, then run it.
| Category | When it's the right answer |
|---|---|
| Enterprise cloud — Microsoft Azure, AWS | Workloads that need the enterprise ecosystem: deep Microsoft 365 integration, managed platform services, compliance features, global scale. |
| Cost-effective infrastructure — selected UK and European providers | The majority of business applications, websites and servers. Straightforward, well-run, and materially cheaper for simple workloads. Our current providers in this category include UpCloud and Civo. |
What we manage for you
| Item | What it actually means for you |
|---|---|
| Compute and hosting | Virtual machines, application platforms and containers sized to your real workload, patched, monitored and backed up automatically. |
| Databases and storage | Managed databases with automated backups and point-in-time restore; storage with correct permissions, lifecycle policies and encryption. No public-by-default accidents. |
| Identity and access | Least-privilege access, MFA enforcement, key rotation and audit logging. The settings most cloud breaches exploit, locked down by default. |
| Networking | Virtual networks, firewalls and security groups configured correctly the first time, not discovered during an incident. |
| Cost governance | Budgets, spend alerts and regular reviews. We identify idle resources, over-provisioned infrastructure and unnecessary licensing, then recommend changes based on actual usage. |
| Backup | 3-2-1 architecture — three copies, two media, one off-site — with immutable versions that ransomware and sync can't touch. |
| Disaster recovery | Documented runbooks and defined recovery targets (RTO and RPO) per system, with restores tested on a schedule. |
Foundry Recovery Assurance
Recovery is the only metric that matters. Every protected system follows the same loop:
Backup → Monitor → Test restore → Record evidence
We don't sell "we back up your data". We sell knowing whether your business can recover. For every protected system you'll be able to see the last successful backup, the last successful test restore, the recovery targets, the current status and any exceptions — so a ransomware strike, hardware failure or human error is a bad day, not a closed business.