DevTools · Cloud & Infrastructure · 11–50 · Europe #b016_13

Context

We are a small regional cloud provider running open source infrastructure services from several green-powered data centres for customers needing local jurisdiction.

Industry

DevTools & Software · Cloud & Infrastructure

Size

11–50 employees

Region

Europe

Tools budget

under $1K per month

Needs

Continuous compliance monitoring. New network security rules raise the bar for us and our customers, and we need ongoing monitoring of controls rather than yearly checks.

Today: a public trust centre with directive-specific tags maintained by a small team · Urgency: this year

Privacy & data protection (GDPR/HIPAA). Customers choose us for data sovereignty, so we must document and prove exactly how personal data is handled.

Today: a hosted-in-one-jurisdiction promise plus several certified management systems · Urgency: later

Who decides

ceo founder · founder led

Expects from suppliers

Affordable for a small team; Hosted in our jurisdiction; Supports open source cloud stacks

Not a fit

Vendors subject to foreign access laws; Tools tied to one hyperscaler

Stack

on-prem / private cloud, Kubernetes, compliance tooling in place

Buying triggers

regulatory change, upcoming audit or certification