Cloud & DevOps Company in Seoul

A focused cloud migration or platform build at Seoul rates runs ₩60M to ₩140M (roughly USD $45,000 to $105,000) over eight to twelve weeks for a single workload, covering CSAP classification, Terraform modules, Kubernetes platform, and CI/CD on Naver Cloud Platform or AWS ap-northeast-2. A full multi-cloud platform with FSI compliance, disaster recovery between AWS Seoul and Naver Cloud, and 24-hour SRE handover typically lands at ₩280M to ₩650M (USD $210,000 to $490,000). Ongoing managed DevOps and SRE runs ₩25M to ₩70M per month (USD $19,000 to $53,000) depending on workload count and on-call expectations. Seoul rates sit below Tokyo and Singapore for equivalent CSAP-capable work but above Manila and Hanoi. We quote fixed-fee against a written scope rather than open T&M, which the chaebol procurement teams at SK, Lotte, and Hyundai-Kia specifically require.

CSAP (Cloud Security Assurance Program) is mandatory for Korean public sector cloud procurement and increasingly expected by regulated private buyers, especially financial firms under the FSC. Level 1 (standard) covers most public cloud use by public agencies for general workloads. Level 2 (enhanced) adds stricter controls for sensitive data. Level 3 covers classified workloads at central government scale. Naver Cloud Platform, NHN Cloud, KT Cloud, and Samsung SDS hold CSAP certifications across multiple levels. AWS, Azure, and GCP have pursued CSAP equivalence under the Multi-Cloud framework but coverage is partial, so foreign hyperscalers commonly sit on the non-public-sector side of a hybrid design. We run a CSAP applicability workshop in week one to confirm whether your buyer or regulator actually requires it before we make architecture decisions you cannot reverse.

Yes. The Financial Security Institute (FSI) cloud usage guidelines apply to banks, securities firms, insurance, credit card issuers, and fintechs holding personal credit information. Core obligations include domestic data residency for personal credit data, a documented and tested cloud exit plan, FSC reporting for material cloud use, encryption with KISA-certified algorithms (ARIA, SEED, LEA) where applicable, and PIPA-aligned access logging retained for three years minimum. Our standard FSI deployment runs primary workloads on Naver Cloud Platform or KT Cloud (both heavily used by KB, Shinhan, Hana, and Toss) with disaster recovery on AWS ap-northeast-2 or Azure Korea Central, and produces the FSC notification packet, exit plan, and audit log retention configuration before go-live. We have patterned deployments after public reference architectures from Toss, Kakao Bank, and K Bank.

Korea's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), as amended in 2020 and 2023, governs collection and processing of personal information, with the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) as enforcer. PIPA does not mandate domestic storage for all personal data, but cross-border transfer requires explicit consent or a contract clause, and several sector laws (Credit Information Use and Protection Act, Network Act, Medical Service Act) impose domestic residency in practice for finance, health, and public sector data. Our discovery phase produces a PIPA-mapped data flow diagram, identifies cross-border touchpoints, and chooses regions accordingly: Naver Cloud Seoul, NHN Cloud Pangyo, AWS ap-northeast-2, GCP asia-northeast3, or Azure Korea Central. We document the lawful basis for any cross-border processing and produce the consent and contract artefacts PIPC inspectors expect.

Samsung, LG, SK, Hyundai-Kia, and Lotte governance committees frequently require multi-cloud or a domestic primary plus foreign DR pattern to avoid single-vendor lock-in and to keep procurement leverage. A typical Codazz multi-cloud topology runs Naver Cloud Platform or Samsung SDS Cloud as primary for in-group workloads, AWS ap-northeast-2 for global SaaS and hyperscaler-native services (S3, Bedrock, SageMaker), and Azure Korea Central or GCP asia-northeast3 as the third leg for specific workloads (Office 365 integration, BigQuery analytics). We use Terraform with a provider abstraction layer, Kubernetes (NKS, EKS, AKS) for portable workloads, and a single observability layer in Grafana plus Datadog Seoul. The deliverable includes a vendor exit runbook for each cloud, which chaebol audit and the FSC both ask for in writing.

Yes. Our Chandigarh hub runs KST overlap with Korean-speaking project leads and bilingual technical documentation. All architecture decision records, runbooks, and audit artefacts are delivered in Korean and English where chaebol governance or PIPC requires it. On the pipeline side, we standardise on UTF-8 across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Terraform but maintain EUC-KR conversion paths for legacy chaebol systems that still emit EUC-KR-encoded logs or filenames. Korean tag conventions (Hangul tags in NCP, Korean-language resource descriptions in AWS Seoul) are supported in our IaC modules. We also handle Hangul typography in dashboards, with Pretendard or SUIT defaults so Grafana and Datadog panels read cleanly to Korean operators rather than rendering as tofu boxes.

A single-workload migration to Naver Cloud Platform, AWS ap-northeast-2, or Azure Korea Central takes eight to fourteen weeks from kickoff to production, including CSAP classification, PIPA data flow mapping, Terraform IaC, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, observability, and a documented runbook. A full chaebol-scale platform with multi-cloud DR, FSI compliance, and 24-hour SRE handover takes six to ten months. Week 1 to 3 is CSAP and PIPA discovery plus architecture. Week 4 to 8 is platform build and IaC. Week 9 to 12 is workload migration in waves. Week 13 onward is hardening, DR rehearsal, and operate handover. If the project requires FSC notification or KISA certification, add four to eight weeks for the regulatory cycle, which we run in parallel with engineering.

Yes. Our Chandigarh hub covers KST business hours live (3.5 hour offset, full overlap from 09:30 to 18:00 KST), and our Edmonton hub picks up the overnight window. We staff Korean-speaking incident commanders on the Chandigarh side and run runbooks bilingually so a Korean operator at SK Telecom or Coupang NOC can act on the same procedure as our SRE. On-call follows PagerDuty or Opsgenie with severity tiers tied to FSC and PIPC reporting obligations (any incident involving personal information may trigger 24-hour or 72-hour notification, depending on severity). Monthly reviews ship to your Korean compliance officer plus the global engineering lead. We do not bill emergency overtime separately, because incidents are part of the fixed-fee operate scope.