Cloud platforms are powerful and unforgiving: easy to overprovision, easy to misconfigure, and easy to let the bill climb with nothing to show for it. Foundry Cloud is infrastructure engineering rather than hosting: the workload is understood first, the platform chosen for it, the environment designed with security, networking and recovery built in, and then run by the same engineers.
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, regional data residency, compliance features, and AI models that run inside your own subscription. |
| 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 engineer and operate
| Item | What it means for your business |
|---|---|
| Compute and hosting | Virtual machines, application platforms and containers sized to your real workload, patched, monitored and backed up automatically. |
| Networking and DNS | Virtual networks, private connectivity, firewalls and security groups configured correctly the first time, with DNS records documented and changes recorded. |
| 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. |
| Infrastructure as code | Environments defined in code where it earns its keep, so they can be rebuilt, reviewed and reproduced rather than remembered. |
| 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 and recovery | 3-2-1 architecture with immutable versions that ransomware and sync can't touch, documented runbooks and defined recovery targets (RTO and RPO) per system. |
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 can see the last successful backup, the last successful test restore, the recovery targets, the current status and any exceptions.
Built for what comes next
The infrastructure Foundry Cloud runs is where the rest of the platform lives: the applications Foundry Engineering builds, the private environments Foundry AI deploys models into, and the runtime Foundry Automation workflows execute on. Designing it properly once is what makes those possible later.