Operational Resilience

A tier-one investment bank needed a production-grade cloud foundation that satisfied risk and regulator expectations while accelerating new product delivery. Their trading desks were eager to experiment, but every proof of concept hit the same wall: controls that broke under scrutiny and infrastructure teams drowning in manual work. cloudlogic.dev co-led the landing zone programme, shipping a governed Google Cloud Platform environment and the automation required to onboard the first trading workloads without disrupting the trading day. ...

If you are a platform engineer, CTO, or infrastructure architect at a financial services firm operating in Europe, DORA is no longer something your compliance team handles in a spreadsheet. As of January 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act imposes legally binding technical requirements that reach into your cloud architecture, your incident response runbooks, and your vendor contracts. Non-compliance carries penalties of up to 2% of global annual turnover, and the 19 critical ICT third-party providers — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others — are now under direct regulatory oversight for the first time. What is striking is how few engineers at regulated firms understand the technical depth of what DORA actually demands. It reads like a regulation, but it lands like an architecture review. ...