Frankfurt teams come to us when the cloud platform stops being a 'DevOps task' and starts being the load-bearing infrastructure for a regulated business: finance, BaFin-supervised, audit-heavy, EU data residency mandatory. We build CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability that an auditor can read — designed for AWS eu-central-1, Azure West Europe, and on-premise integrations where the bank still owns the metal.
Frankfurt is Germany's regulated infrastructure market — host to the European Central Bank, Deutsche Börse, BaFin, and the largest banks in the country (Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank, KfW, ING-DiBa). The cluster around Bockenheim, Bornheim and Westend is built for compliance: BaFin-supervised banks, payment institutions, insurers and compliance-heavy SaaS that have to live inside AWS eu-central-1 or run hybrid into on-premise data centres. The decisions a team makes about CI/CD, deployment topology, observability and audit logging here are the decisions that define whether the next supervisory review goes well or badly. We build for that level of consequence.
Four engagement shapes. Each one assumes you have real auditors, real data-residency rules, and real consequences for getting it wrong.
Pipelines with explicit promotion gates, signed artifacts, immutable audit trails, and segregation of duties between dev and production. Designed so a deployment review takes minutes, not days — and so a supervisor's question about 'who deployed what when' is a database query.
Terraform or Pulumi codebases for AWS Frankfurt (eu-central-1) with full reproducibility, drift detection, and state management that survives a team handover. Multi-account topology, IAM hygiene, secret management, and explicit boundaries between dev, staging, and production.
Distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics with retention that satisfies your audit window. SLOs tied to product surfaces (not infrastructure), error budgets, and on-call rotation that distinguishes 'one customer is broken' from 'the platform is down'. Dashboards an engineer and a CFO can both read.
Lift-and-shift to AWS eu-central-1, refactor passes for the workloads that need them, and on-premise integration when the bank still owns the metal. We define the target topology, dependency mapping, cost model, migration waves and a cut-over plan you can present to leadership before we start.
Three engagements at the scale of supervised banking infrastructure — designed for audit visibility, EU residency, and the kind of uptime where a single outage triggers a regulator letter.
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We are honest here: we have not led a team through SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification end-to-end. We do build infrastructure, audit trails, access controls and documentation that map cleanly to the technical controls those frameworks require — and we work alongside teams that hold the certification. If certification is your goal, expect us to deliver the engineering substrate; the certification process itself runs through your compliance lead and an external auditor.
Frankfurt's eu-central-1 region is the default target for German regulated workloads: physically located in Frankfurt, fully EU-resident data path, and the region most German auditors are familiar with by default. We also work in Azure West Europe and Google Cloud europe-west3 when those are dictated by enterprise procurement — but eu-central-1 is the default we design for unless you specify otherwise.
Yes. Hybrid is the norm for Frankfurt clients: cloud workloads for new development, on-premise for legacy banking systems and regulated workloads that have not migrated yet. We design clear boundaries between cloud and on-prem (versioned APIs, async messaging, controlled data flow) so the cloud release cadence does not couple to the on-prem release cycle.
AWS KMS with per-environment keys, AWS Secrets Manager (or HashiCorp Vault on hybrid setups), short-lived IAM credentials via AWS SSO or a federation layer, and explicit segregation between dev, staging and production. Every access decision is logged, every secret rotation is automated, and the audit trail is queryable — not reconstructed from logs after a supervisory review.
After the 5-day Architecture Sprint, a first production-ready CI/CD and IaC baseline is typically 6–10 weeks for a focused stack (one product line, one cloud account topology), 3–6 months for a multi-environment migration. Cloud migrations are deliberately phased — workload by workload — so production stays live and rollback stays a configuration change.
We ship out of Berlin into the other three markets with on-site kick-off, the Architecture Sprint on the ground, and live pair-time through implementation. Each market has its own delivery shape.
Five days. €3,500. We map your existing infrastructure, name the audit and migration risks, and hand you a roadmap your team — or ours — can execute.
