Cloud & DevOps Company in Berlin

Attestation is the expensive part of a Berlin cloud programme, not the migration itself. Work lands as a focused Berlin workload lift to AWS eu-central-1 or Azure Germany West Central, covering landing zone, Terraform modules, GitOps pipelines, and a documented cutover, a Mittelstand SAP migration to RISE with SAP on Azure Germany West Central over six to twelve months, or a KRITIS or BSI C5 sovereign cloud build, which sits higher because of the attestation and documentation overhead. Berlin rates sit a bracket below Munich and Frankfurt because of the scale-up talent supply, but well above Eastern European nearshore quotes for an equivalent regulatory footprint. We quote fixed-fee in EUR with VAT (Umsatzsteuer) handled cleanly.

Yes. The BSI Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5) is the German federal baseline for cloud service trust and is required by most federal procurement, many KRITIS operators, and a growing share of Mittelstand RFPs. We deliver landing zones with the C5 control catalogue mapped into Terraform modules, OPA Gatekeeper policies, and Azure Policy or AWS Config rules. Documentation packages include the C5 control matrix, evidence collection runbooks, and the gap analysis your auditor needs. We have shipped against C5 on AWS eu-central-1, Azure Germany West Central, and T-Systems Open Sovereign Cloud, including hybrid deployments where the sovereign tier holds keys and the hyperscaler tier handles burst workloads.

Germany transposes NIS2 through the NIS2UmsuCG, expanding the scope of regulated essential and important entities and tightening incident reporting to twenty-four-hour early warnings and seventy-two-hour assessments. For Berlin KRITIS clients we deliver landing zones with the security controls NIS2 expects (multi-factor authentication, network segmentation, encrypted backups, vulnerability management, supply chain risk controls) baked into Terraform from day one. Incident response runbooks route through the BSI Meldestelle reporting channel with documented timelines. We coordinate with your DPO on the BDSG and GDPR overlay so a single incident does not trigger inconsistent disclosures across the BSI, the Berliner Beauftragte fur Datenschutz, and customer notification workflows.

Three credible options anchor the German sovereign cloud market. T-Systems Open Sovereign Cloud offers OpenStack and Kubernetes with full operational control inside Germany. Delos Cloud, the SAP and Arvato joint venture, targets federal and Land workloads with Microsoft Azure technology operated by German personnel under German law. IONOS Cloud delivers fully German-operated IaaS with strong public sector traction. We have shipped architectures across all three, including hybrid patterns where keys and PII sit in the sovereign tier while non-regulated burst workloads run on AWS eu-central-1 or Azure Germany West Central. Choice depends on regulatory tier, application architecture, and willingness to trade hyperscaler service breadth for sovereignty.

Yes. AWS eu-central-2 in Zurich launched in late 2022 and gives Berlin clients a clean DR partner for eu-central-1 in Frankfurt at roughly 1100km separation, well outside any single grid or fibre fault domain. We design active-active and active-passive patterns using Route 53 latency or failover routing, Aurora Global Database for cross-region MySQL and Postgres replication, S3 Cross-Region Replication with strong consistency policies, and EKS clusters federated through Karpenter and external-dns. Failover testing is automated through GameDay scenarios and recorded for BSI C5 and NIS2 evidence. The Zurich region also enables Swiss client onboarding without separate architecture, useful for Berlin scale-ups expanding into the DACH market.

GDPR is the EU baseline, but Germany layers the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) and Land-level guidance from the Berliner Beauftragte fur Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit on top, with stricter rules around employee data, video surveillance, and biometric processing. Our landing zones default to EU regions only (eu-central-1 Frankfurt, eu-central-2 Zurich, Azure Germany West Central, GCP europe-west3 Frankfurt) and block cross-border data movement at the policy layer unless a documented Standard Contractual Clauses workflow is in place. Audit logs and access trails are retained per BDSG retention rules. Data Processing Agreements use the German Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag template aligned to Article 28 GDPR, signed before any workload moves.

Yes. Many Berlin scale-ups and Mittelstand clients run a Hetzner Cloud or bare-metal footprint, often in Falkenstein or Nuremberg, with on-premise workloads in Berlin or other German data centres. We deliver hybrid architectures using AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute into a Frankfurt carrier hotel, with site-to-site VPN over Hetzner for non-critical paths. Migration plans typically lift application workloads to AWS or Azure while leaving cost-sensitive batch and bulk storage on Hetzner, connected through Wireguard or AWS Cloud WAN. We do not push a forklift migration when a hybrid pattern fits the financial and regulatory reality better, especially for Mittelstand clients with depreciation cycles still running on existing hardware.

Berlin scale-up CFOs now ask about cloud unit economics in every board cycle, especially post-2023 when SoftBank and Tiger Global funding tightened. We ship FinOps from day one with Infracost in the CI pipeline to estimate Terraform plan cost deltas, Kubecost for Kubernetes workload allocation, AWS Cost Explorer and Cost Anomaly Detection or Azure Cost Management with tag-based showback, and Savings Plans plus Reserved Instances managed through quarterly commitment reviews. Engineering teams get a weekly cost report by service and environment, and FinOps gates are wired into the deployment pipeline so a runaway autoscaler in eu-central-1 cannot quietly burn EUR 50,000 in a weekend. We have cut steady-state cloud spend by 30 to 50 percent on multiple Berlin engagements.