Cloud built for data — not just cloud

We architect, migrate, and operate cloud environments built specifically for data-intensive workloads. Not generic cloud consulting — data-native, governance-first, compliance-ready infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Cloud architecture review
DORA readiness check

Industry relevance

Banking
Critical
(Dora)
Telco
Critical
Retail
High
IT/Tech
Critical

What makes IDS cloud engineering different

Generic cloud consulting gets you infrastructure. IDS cloud engineering gets you a data platform that runs on it.

Generic cloud consulting

  • Infrastructure focus — VMs, networking, storage
  • Cloud-agnostic, not data-aware
  • Compliance as an afterthought
  • Hands off after go-live
  • No understanding of data workload patterns

IDS cloud engineering

  • Data platform native — built around DWH and analytics
  • Governance-first architecture from day one
  • DORA, GDPR and NIS2 ready by design
  • Managed operations, monitoring and cost control
  • Optimised for Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse workloads

Services in this domain

Cloud Architecture & Design

Reference architectures for data-centric cloud environments — scalable, secure, and built to grow with your platform.

Cloud Migration

Lifting, shifting, and modernising on-premise data infrastructure to cloud-native environments — with zero-downtime strategies.

Cloud-Native Data Platform Setup

Building data platforms from scratch in the cloud — ingestion, storage, processing, and serving layers, fully integrated.

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Strategy

Architecture and governance for organisations operating across multiple cloud providers or maintaining hybrid on-prem/cloud setups.

Cloud Cost Optimisation

Cost monitoring, rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, and data storage tiering to reduce cloud spend without sacrificing performance.

Managed Cloud Operations

Ongoing support, monitoring, alerting, and optimisation of cloud data infrastructure — so your team can focus on business value.

Cloud cost optimisation

Rightsizing
Matching compute and storage resources to actual workload patterns — eliminating over-provisioned clusters and idle resources.
Reserved capacity planning
Identifying stable baseline workloads and converting them to reserved or committed-use pricing — typically 30–60% cost reduction.
Storage tiering
Moving cold and archive data to lower-cost storage tiers automatically — without impacting query performance on hot data.

Cloud compliance isn't optional for banks anymore

Banking · Regulation · DORA 2025
The Digital Operational Resilience Act requires banks to demonstrate control and oversight over their cloud infrastructure and third-party ICT providers. IDS designs cloud data environments that are DORA-ready from day one — with the documentation, governance, and monitoring frameworks regulators expect.
ICT risk management

Architecture designed with resilience, redundancy and documented risk controls

Third-party oversight

Cloud vendor register, SLA monitoring and exit strategy documentation

Incident reporting

Monitoring, alerting and incident classification aligned to DORA thresholds

Where this domain matters most

Banking
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DORA-compliant cloud data environment

Azure-based data platform designed from the ground up to meet DORA ICT risk management and resilience requirements.

Telco
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Network analytics cloud migration

Migrated on-premise network data processing to GCP — reducing infrastructure costs by 40% and enabling real-time analytics.

Retail
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Scalable commerce data platform
Cloud-native Snowflake environment on Azure, auto-scaling for peak trading periods without manual intervention or cost overruns.

Data Platform Cloud Partners

Certified across the platforms that matter most for data-intensive workloads.

Snowflake
Select Services Partner
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Cloud data warehouse deployments and migrations, natively on Snowflake across Azure, GCP and AWS.
  • Snowflake on Azure / GCP / AWS
  • Network policy & security configuration
  • Cost optimisation & credit management
Databricks
Registered Partner
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Databricks workspace setup, Unity Catalog governance, and lakehouse infrastructure across all major clouds.
  • Workspace architecture & cluster management
  • Unity Catalog & data governance setup
  • Cost monitoring & compute optimisation
Microsoft Azure
Partner
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  • Azure Synapse & Data Factory
  • Azure Data Lake & Fabric
  • Azure Security & Compliance
  • Azure Monitor & Cost Management
Google Cloud
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  • BigQuery & Cloud Storage
  • Dataflow & Cloud Composer
  • VPC & IAM configuration
  • GCP Cost Management
AWS
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  • Redshift & S3 Data Lake
  • AWS Glue & EMR
  • IAM & VPC security
  • AWS Cost Explorer

Case studies

From Silos to Scale: How Europe’s Largest Retail Cooperative Built a Unified Data Platform on Snowflake

Client: Europe’s Largest Retail Cooperative
IDS Consulting was brought in to do what the business had not yet been able to do on its own: design and deliver a modern data platform that matched the scale and ambition of the organization.
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Network Analytics, Migrated to the Cloud

Client: A national telecom operator
IDS architected a cloud-native network analytics platform on BigQuery and Dataflow, built for streaming ingestion at telco scale, replacing nightly batch loads with near-real-time processing of network events.
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Multi-Cloud Strategy & Cost Optimisation

Client: A growing SaaS / IT services company
IDS ran a cost and architecture review across both AWS and Azure environments, then designed a rationalized multi-cloud strategy — keeping each provider for the workloads it did best, eliminating duplicated pipelines, and applying rightsizing and reserved-capacity planning where waste was highest.
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From Days to Minutes: An 8-Year Data Warehouse Transformation for a Leading Telecom Operator

Client: Leading Telecom Operator
IDS Consulting was brought in not for a single fix, but as an ongoing extension of the client’s Data Warehouse team. The mandate: modernize how data moved through the platform, and keep it evolving safely as the business — and the underlying infrastructure — kept changing around it.
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From Hadoop to Databricks: Scaling a Banking Data Platform Beyond Its Limits

Client: Banking Client
IDS Consulting was brought in to provide hands-on technical support and consultancy for the migration to Databricks.
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FROM LEGACY TO MODERN: How a Leading European Bank Modernized Its Data Platform with Databricks

Client: One of Europe’s established financial institutions
IDS Consulting embedded a dedicated team of senior data engineers directly into the bank’s department, working alongside internal teams as a seamless extension of their workforce.
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