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Cloud Solutions in Saudi Arabia

Cloud is a set of design decisions, not a logo. We architect the platform your workloads, obligations and budget require — across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Discuss your cloud requirement Technologies we work with
Overview

Cloud Solutions designed around your requirement

We deliberately do not lead with a single hyperscaler. The right platform depends on your application estate, existing licensing, Saudi data residency requirements and the NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls, the skills in your team and the commercial terms on the table. Most enterprises end up hybrid or multi-cloud by necessity rather than ambition — so we design for portability, cost control and consistent security from the outset.

Capabilities

What our cloud solutions cover

Cloud Foundations & Landing Zones

  • Secure landing zone and account/subscription architecture
  • Identity federation and cloud privileged access
  • Network topology, connectivity and hybrid interconnect
  • Guardrails, policy-as-code and governance baselines
  • Centralised logging, monitoring and security baseline
  • Sovereign, in-country and data residency architectures

Migration & Modernisation Solutions

  • Discovery, dependency mapping and wave planning
  • Server, VM and virtualisation platform migration
  • Database migration and platform modernisation
  • Data centre exit and colocation-to-cloud moves
  • Application replatforming and containerisation
  • Productivity and collaboration platform migration

Container & Platform Solutions

  • Managed Kubernetes platform design and deployment
  • Container registry, image pipeline and supply chain security
  • Service mesh, ingress and API gateway architecture
  • Serverless and event-driven architecture
  • Internal developer platform and self-service provisioning

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Solutions

  • Hybrid cloud and cloud-adjacent infrastructure
  • Multi-cloud networking and consistent identity
  • Workload placement and portability design
  • Cloud exit strategy and lock-in mitigation
  • Edge and distributed cloud deployment

Cloud Security & Compliance Solutions

  • Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
  • Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
  • Cloud workload and container protection
  • Cloud entitlement management (CIEM)
  • Compliance guardrails aligned to your regulatory framework

Cloud Backup, Resilience & DR Solutions

  • Cloud-native and third-party backup architecture
  • Immutable and air-gapped recovery design
  • Multi-region and cross-cloud disaster recovery
  • Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
  • Failover automation and recovery testing

Cloud Cost & FinOps Solutions

  • Cost visibility, tagging and allocation platforms
  • Rightsizing, commitment and reservation optimisation
  • Showback, chargeback and budget alerting
  • Anomaly detection and waste elimination
  • Licence optimisation for workloads running on cloud
Technology

Technologies we work with

We hold partnerships where they serve our clients — and we recommend on merit, including recommending the technology you already own. The platforms below are those we design, deploy, integrate and operate in this domain. Bold entries are our formal technology partners.
Capability areaTechnologies we work with
Partner technologiesMicrosoft Azure (landing zones, Azure Arc, Azure Stack HCI, Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft 365), AWS (Control Tower, Organizations, EKS, RDS, migration services)
Hyperscale cloud platformsMicrosoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud
Regional & sovereign cloudIn-country hyperscaler regions and licensed local cloud providers, evaluated against your residency and regulatory obligations
Container & orchestrationAzure Kubernetes Service, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher, Docker
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CDTerraform, OpenTofu, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD
Cloud security postureMicrosoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca, Tenable Cloud Security
Backup, DR & resilienceVeeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Observability & FinOpsAzure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth

This list is not exhaustive and it is not a commitment to any single platform. If you run something not listed here, ask — there is a good chance we have delivered on it. See our formal partnerships

Outcomes

What you get

  • A platform decision supported by a weighted evaluation and TCO model, not a vendor pitch
  • Landing zone delivered in weeks with security and governance built in
  • Migration executed in rehearsed waves with documented rollback
  • Data residency and regulatory obligations designed in from day one
  • 20 to 40 percent cost reduction typical in the first FinOps cycle
Delivery

How we deliver

  1. Requirement and current state — free discovery covering the business driver, existing estate and constraints.
  2. Technology evaluation — shortlisted platforms scored against eight criteria, with the scoring shared.
  3. Solution design — target architecture, sizing, integration, security and compliance mapping.
  4. Commercials — transparent pricing, with the cheaper route identified even where it earns us less.
  5. Implementation — phased deployment, integration, testing and documentation.
  6. Handover or operate — knowledge transfer and runbooks, or a NAZZTEC managed service.

The expertise behind this solution

This page covers the technology. For the consulting, delivery and operational expertise that goes with it, see Cloud & DevOps Services.

Cloud & DevOps Services
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Why do you not specialise in one cloud platform?
Because our clients do not run one platform. A typical enterprise estate has Microsoft workloads, an Oracle database estate, a Kubernetes footprint and at least one SaaS-heavy business unit. Single-platform specialists tend to recommend the platform they specialise in. We are certified across Azure, AWS, GCP and OCI specifically so the recommendation follows the workload.
How do you decide which cloud a workload belongs on?
We score each workload against technical fit, existing licensing and commercial entitlements, data residency and regulatory constraints, latency and integration dependencies, available in-house skills, and three-year total cost of ownership. The output is a documented workload placement matrix you can defend to your board.
Can you support multi-cloud without tripling our operational overhead?
Yes, but only with deliberate design: consistent identity, one infrastructure-as-code toolchain, a single observability plane and unified security posture management. Multi-cloud becomes expensive when it happens by accident rather than by architecture.
Can workloads stay in-country?
Yes. We design to your data residency obligations, using in-country regions, sovereign cloud offerings, hybrid architectures or on-premise retention where a workload cannot legally or practically leave your jurisdiction.

Talk to us about your cloud requirement

Tell us what you are trying to achieve and what you already have in place. A senior consultant will come back within one business day with the realistic technology options and an honest view on cost.

Discuss Your Requirement

We respond to every enquiry within one business day.